X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/5c5428f9132822d5d39b02c46dd89464adff9f1f..bae2dc62af49b5a870bbabd9473a92921736a6f0:/docs/todo30.txt diff --git a/docs/todo30.txt b/docs/todo30.txt index 031831d549..07c689df1a 100644 --- a/docs/todo30.txt +++ b/docs/todo30.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Enhancements for wxWindows 3.0 +Enhancements for wxWidgets 3.0 ============================== This table contains the brief summary of the issues below. Priority and @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ C++ Features ============ - Namespaces: - We want to have all wxWindows identifiers in "wx" namespace but provide + We want to have all wxWidgets identifiers in "wx" namespace but provide typedefs/#defines for backwards compatibility. This can be done easily for the classes and the only real problem are the enums as they would all have to be duplicated at both the global scope (with "wx" prefix) and @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ C++ Features without templates, even if not all of its features would be available then) - Exceptions - We are not going to use exceptions in wxWindows itself but our code should + We are not going to use exceptions in wxWidgets itself but our code should become exception safe. This is a very difficult task as it means that no resource allocations (including memory, files, whatever) should be done without using a smart pointer-like object to store the result as it is the @@ -54,12 +54,11 @@ Core customized by user code by overriding some wxApp::CreateEventLoop()) instead of duplicating the same code -- remove wxCOMPATIBILITY (1.X) - At least WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY and maybe WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2 code should be - removed from the library. wxDEPRECATED() should be used with everything - inside WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_2. The stuff inside WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 - probably should not be deprecated (yet?) because this would give thousands - of warnings for the existing code. +- remove wxCOMPATIBILITY + wxDEPRECATED() should be used with everything inside WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4. + The stuff inside WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_6 probably should not be deprecated + (yet?) because this would give thousands of warnings for the existing code. + Exception is api documented as obsolete in 2.6 release already. - Modularization/Build System Candidates for components: @@ -74,15 +73,14 @@ Core We need a (GUI) tool to generate the project/makefiles for all supported platforms/compilers. Not sure if it should be used for the library itself (would be nice to have something like "make menuconfig" for Linux kernel - which allows you to navigate easily amon all of the configure/setup.h + which allows you to navigate easily among all of the configure/setup.h options but there is a problem with distributing such tool as it can't be compiled by the user because it is needed before the library is built) but we definitely need it for the users makefiles. - Properties/Member-Metadata, 2-Step Init with virtual create - TODO: still unclear what do we need exactly -- Tidy code and add comments to headers (preferably in +- Tidy code and add comments to headers (possibly in Doxygen/Javadoc style) @@ -120,7 +118,7 @@ Modules/Plugins Architecture ------------ -We aim to arrive at a lazy initializiation of modules only when they are first +We aim to arrive at a lazy initialization of modules only when they are first needed. Dependency information between modules is needed. Dynamic Plug-In loading and unloading must be compatible with that. @@ -152,23 +150,9 @@ Removal of old code In addition to wxCOMPATIBILITY code: -- wxProperty classes. -- All wxCOMPATIBILITY (1.X) code. -- contrib/src/canvas? - contrib/src/mmedia - contrib/src/applet? -- utils/Install -- wxDate, wxTime -- Old wxODBC code -- wxExpr (rewriting some OGL code or bundling wxExpr with OGL) -- Old resource system -- samples/resource - Dialog Editor -- generic/src/htmlhelp.cpp -- all code that uses layout constraints, - so constraints can be compiled out of the - core library - wxMiscellaneous =============== @@ -177,7 +161,7 @@ wxMiscellaneous - wxLocale Extension (eg Currency) - wxStreams review - wxURL? -- a way to tell wxWindows to check for any non-portable usage, +- a way to tell wxWidgets to check for any non-portable usage, for a given set of platforms. Sometimes you want to be able to get away with non-portable usage, and sometimes not. This is probably way too time-consuming to implement. @@ -189,6 +173,8 @@ wxMiscellaneous has been destroyed or recreated. On wxMSW, this is done in ~wxToolBar. On wxGTK, in SetToolBar. In wxMac, not at all, but sending a wxSizeEvent will do it. +- Need wxRect wxToolBar::GetToolRect(int id) or similar so we can + align a popup menu with a toolbar button. - wxMac font selector dialog is the generic font selector - horrible. - No Append(wxArrayString&) for wxChoice and wxComboBox in wxGTK. @@ -211,5 +197,8 @@ wxMiscellaneous behaviour (click, click, click, click away...) and reduce checkbox size on non-Windows platforms. - Add wxNotebook::HitTest for non-Windows platforms. +- Implement rebar for all platforms. This will help us + get closer to native look and feel, e.g. the gradient + shadow on XP toolbars. Version: $Id$