wxMotif TODO
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-Updated: 16/10/98
+Updated: 12/11/98
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-High Priority
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+General comment: see the following site for useful Motif widgets.
+ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif
-- wxScreenDC
+Also, grep for TODO comments in source.
-- Extra wxBitmap formats. What about XPMs, can we assume
- libxpm exists and use that?
+High Priority
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- Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
-- Bitmap versions of widgets (wxBitmapButton etc.)
+- Colour setting in widgets (almost done). Should scrollbars take
+ on the background colour? Not right for e.g. wxScrolledWindows,
+ so maybe have wxSystemSettings value for scrollbar colour, and/or
+ ability to set scrollbar colour independently.
-- wxRadioBox
+- Optimize wxWindow OnPaint to avoid flicker, collapsing Expose events
+ as per flicker fix in 1.68. It will be tricky to avoid
+ interfering with non-wxScrolledWindow widgets except by
+ explicitly testing for wxScrolledWindow.
-- wxRadioButton
+- Implementation of OnEraseBackground. How? Call OnEraseBackground
+ just before OnPaint? Will duplicate Xlib's own erase of the background.
+ However, this is usually OK, because the default wxWindow::OnEraseBackground
+ can do nothing (SetBackgroundColour will make the background look OK).
+ And if a custom OnEraseBackground uses the same colour as the window
+ background, no flicker will be seen. If it does something else, such as
+ painting a tiled bitmap, then a slight flicker might be seen unless
+ X can be persuaded not to repaint the window background by default.
-- wxComboBox: use combobox.c code as bundled in wxWin 1.68
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-- wxGauge: use xmgauge as per wxWin 1.68
+- Finish wxNotebook.
- wxSpinButton
-- wxSlider
-
-- wxTextCtrl text file loading and saving.
+- Tidy dialogs such as the colour and font selectors.
-- A generic version of wxNotebook that can be used in wxMotif and
- other toolkits that don't have a native control. Perhaps use wxTab as a
- starting point.
+- Use generic wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl: debug and enhance these.
-- MDI classes: use existing Motif widgets for this.
+- Find out why modal dialogs give a grab warning.
-- Dialogs e.g. wxFileSelector.
- Some others need tidying, such as the colour and font selectors.
+- wxSystemSettings. Eventually, should have control panel-like utility
+ to change colours/fonts but meanwhile should maybe read them
+ from a file.
-- Use generic wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl: enhance these.
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-- Write a better generic wxToolBar class than wxToolBarSimple.
- Alternatively, write a toolbar using Motif as described here:
- http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/Kurt_Huhner/jun96.html.
- This article also explains how to implement tooltips.
+- wxThread (hopefully, similar to wxGTK)
-- Colour and font setting in widgets.
+- wxGrid: scrollbars don't hide; problem with cell selection.
-- wxSystemSettings
+- MDI: seems to be broken for a more complex application I'm testing.
+ Frame decorations don't draw properly, and a child window doesn't
+ process events properly. So probably we should have an alternative
+ implementation that uses tabs, a la wxGTK. The system menu could
+ be implemented using a pop-up menu that applies to the currently
+ active window.
-- wxTimer
+- Controls in a wxToolBar don't work. Probably due to form layout
+ problems; the workaround is to use a separate panel for controls.
-- wxThread (hopefully, similar to wxGTK)
+- Miscellaneous events.
-- Write makefiles for all samples.
+- Write makefiles for all samples and utilities.
- Create some samples for testing.
Low Priority
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+- Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
+ Use wxGTK config system? It's really complex to debug and
+ doesn't offer a way of compiling apps outside the wxWin
+ hierarchy.
+
+- Extra wxBitmap formats: PNG, BMP. Could use old wxWin 1.68
+ wxImage code (derived from XV) for BMP/GIF but it's very bloated. However,
+ when implemented as extra bitmap handlers, the code won't be linked
+ unless needed.
+
- Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK).
- Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
- Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
- New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/
+ http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/.
+
+ We need to:
+ - make a minimal distribution under wx/src/xmhtml, just enough
+ to compile the source.
+ - add XMHTML_C_SRC to src/motif/makefile.unx with the source files
+ listed.
+ - make sure we can compile the sources, passing the correct
+ flags for zlib/png compilation.
+ - make a wxHTMLWindow class from e.g. examples/example_2.c. Should
+ probably make the cache and history facilities part of the class.
+ - add the driver code to src/motif/helphtml.cpp (a frame, toolbar,
+ history list).
- Optimize screen refresh for non-native widgets, e.g. wxWindow
created with Create(), using technique in flicker patch for 1.68
http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
- Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
- Netscape is running.
+ Netscape is running. See:
+ http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
+
+- wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
+ implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
- wxCheckBoxList
-- Write generic wxDirDialog (directory selector).
+- wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
-- Use native Motif dialogs for wxMessageBox.
+- Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
+ widget currently used).
+
+- Write generic wxDirDialog (directory selector)
+
+- Use native Motif dialogs for wxMessageBox
- Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
Linux)
+- Blit scaling
+
+- Could eventually alter the MDI widgets to be more Windows-like
+ -- currently it's half-hearted (menus are on children, whereas
+ they should replace the main parent frame menu).
+
+- Get ODBC classes and sample working.
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