Development: Todo List
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This is a collection of the various things which it would be nice to include in wxWidgets. They may or may not be scheduled or funded. If you're interested in helping with wxWidgets development, one of the small projects below could be a great way to join the team!
New Development
High priority
- Provide a possibility to use individual wxUniv controls from the native ports.
- Give wxFileSystem a better API and further integrate it with wxWidgets (currently only wxHtml uses it but it could be also used by many other classes)
- wxHTML2, using native HTML renderers where available.
- Add image support to wxButton (Jamie Gadd has the patch for wxMSW, with a bit work it should be extended to others ports) merging wxBitmapButton with wxButton, see this thread for more information.
- Provide character classification and string case conversion, sorting and comparison functions working on full Unicode range and not just on characters in the current locale (either using native API of each platform or ICU as discussed in this thread).
- Implement wxMaskedTextCtrl in C++ (it's already available in wxPython)
Medium priority
- MIME types code needs a cleanup and a GUI interface to allow setting the MIME types and related information from the program itself
- wxReBar control (moveable toolbars, menubars) - see http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/showcomp.php?name=wxCoolBar for an already existing implementation
- Avoid calling the wxYield family of functions in internal code. wxYield causes problems in combination with pending events leading to all sorts of strange side-effects.
- Move wxApp::Yield() to wxEventLoop::Yield(), where it logically belongs (see wxDFB port for partial step in this direction)
- add persistent control support: see PersistentControls page for more info
- add wxFont::SetAntiAliasingMode(enum { Default, On, Off }) method which can be implemented easily at least for MSW by using the corresponding LOGFONT::lfQuality values.
Low priority
- Write wxConfig implementation using XML as backend:
- wxStaticBox: Hide the platform problems (GTK: 'children' must be siblings) in encapsulation in order to avoid problems on ports where the hierarchy must be 'correct'.
- Standard menu and toolbar customization dialogs
- Extend wxLocale to return more information, e.g. currency formatting, list separator, ...
- Improve wxSpinCtrl to allow showing something else than just its value in the text field. This should be done by implementing support for wxSpinCtrlFormatter class which would have Format() and Parse() virtual methods which could be implemented by a user-defined class which the user coode would associate with the control and which would mediate the conversion between the value and the text field contents.
- Fix alpha handling in wxIconBundle under MSW (see this thread)
- Update the coding standards guide
Everything else
Most of the following items need to be discussed before being implemented.
- Synchronisation API between mobile and desktop.
- Extend and unify drag and drop handling (e.g. we need to specify multiple drop targets that can handle multiple formats).
- Serial and parallel port support.
- Modem and telephony support.
- Improve accessibility support.
- wxDC Support for point to char-position with text rendering
Improvements to the existing code
This page lists many of the classes/methods which are not implemented under all platforms. In addition, our bug tracker page has an almost unlimited supply of bugs to fix.
Infrastructure
- Set up [buildbot] or similar system for continuous build tests
- Use SourceForge compile farm (or other facilities) to automatically spin at least some of the releases using a specification of the type of release, tag to use, etc.
- Make building Debian packages less painful, in particular try to make it possible to build them in the source tree instead of current roundabout way; automate building of both ANSI and Unicode packages (the former doesn't work with dpkg-buildpackage as there is no way to pass WX_UNICODE=0 to debian/rules when using it).