wxMotif TODO
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-Updated: 21/9/98
+Updated: 28/12/98
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-- wxDCs
+General comment: see the following site for useful Motif widgets.
+ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/motif
-- wxBitmap, wxIcon, wxCursor, wxPalette. What about XPMs, can we assume
- libxpm exists and use that? What about PNGs? Can we use gdk
- as per wxGTK? Probably not.
+Also, grep for TODO comments in source.
-- Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
- currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
+High Priority
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-- wxRegion
+- Have a central/per app file for colour settings, with a wxWin
+ app to allow changing settings interactively.
-- Bitmap versions of widgets (wxBitmapButton etc.)
-
-- wxCheckBoxList
+- 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.
-- Remaining common widgets (wxListBox, wxRadioBox, wxRadioButton, wxChoice,
- wxGauge, wxComboBox etc.). Use combobox.c code as bundled in wxWin 1.68.
+- 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.
-- wxTextCtrl text file loading and saving.
+- 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.
-- Scrolling in wxWindow.
+- wxNotebook bug: why doesn't the notebook sample appear until the
+ user resizes the window again? But it's OK for MDI. Strange.
-- 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.
+- wxSpinButton
-- MDI classes: use existing Motif widgets for this.
-
-- Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
- Linux)
+- Miscellaneous events.
-- Dialogs e.g. wxFileSelector. Use a native Motif wxMessageBox.
- Some others need tidying, such as the colour and font selectors.
+- Get wxGLCanvas from 1.68 working.
-- Write generic wxDirDialog (directory selector).
+Low Priority
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-- Use generic wxTreeCtrl, wxListCtrl: enhance these.
+- Visuals: how to select an appropriate one?
-- 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.
+- Work out why XFreeFont in font.cpp produces a segv. This is
+ currently commented out, which presumably causes a memory leak.
-- Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
- Netscape is running.
+- Better makefile system that can put objects in different dirs.
-- Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK's).
+- 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. Update: see if wxImage can handle these formats.
-- Colour and font setting in widgets.
+- Print/preview framework in print.cpp (see wxGTK).
-- wxSystemSettings
+- Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
+ and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
+ sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
-- wxTimer
+- Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
-- wxThread (hopefully, similar to wxGTK)
+- New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
+ 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).
- Copy and paste, drag and drop. Use a standard X drag
and drop standard - see http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~jafl/xdnd/
or use Motif drag and drop as described here:
http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/DnD/dnd.html
-- Optimize screen refresh for non-native widgets, e.g. wxWindow
- created with Create(), using technique in flicker patch for 1.68
- (see JACS for latest patch).
+- Optimize colour management so we don't get clashes when e.g.
+ Netscape is running. See:
+ http://www.motifzone.com/tmd/articles/John_Cwikla/index.html
-- Enhance event handling such that you override e.g. left-click
- and unless you call the base OnMouseEvent, the click won't be
- sent to the button. Required for Dialog Editor.
+- wxRCConfig (a config class using X .rc files). Could simply
+ implement it in terms of current wxGet/WriteResource functions.
+
+- wxCheckBoxList
-- Write makefiles for all samples.
+- wxBitmapCheckBox, wxBitmapRadioButton
-- Create some samples for testing.
+- Reimplement combobox using Lesstif's widget (avoiding GPL'ed
+ widget currently used).
-- Get Dialog Editor working under Motif.
+- Miscellaneous classes e.g. wxJoystick (identical to GTK's one for
+ Linux)
-- New wxHelp version: try using the XmHTML widget at
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~ripley/XmHTML/
+- Blit scaling
+
+- Get ODBC classes and sample working.
+
+- Work out why wxTextCtrl doesn't work as a stream buffer under
+ gcc
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