diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md index b8f12f1..adb2aa0 100644 --- a/todo.md +++ b/todo.md @@ -1,24 +1,23 @@ so I don't forget: -- Window.SizeToFit() or WIndow.OptimalSize() (use: `Window.SetSize(Window.OptimalSize())`) for sizing a window to the control's interest +- Window.SizeToFit() or WIndow.OptimalSize() (use: `Window.SetOptimalSize())`) for sizing a window to the control's interest - Control.Show()/Control.Hide() - Groupbox -- determine if a selection in a non-editable combobox has been made - see if we really need to track errors on Combobox.Selection() - in fact, see if we really need to track errors on a lot of things... - character-limited entry fields, numeric entry fields, multiline entry fields - possible rename of LineEdit? - especially for password fields - NewPasswordEntry()? -- more flexible size appropriation: allow a small button to be at the top of everything in the main() example here - [Windows, Mac OS X] should ListBox have a border style? - [Windows] a different border on LineEdits? - padding and spacing in Stack; maybe a setting in Stack which keeps controls at their preferred size? -- change Stack/Combobox/Listbox constructors so that there's a separate constructor for each variant, rather than passing in parameters? +- change Stack/Listbox constructors so that there's a separate constructor for each variant, rather than passing in parameters? - allow Combobox to have initial settings - Combobox and Listbox insertions and deletions should allow bulk (...string) - Combobox/Listbox.DeleteAll - Combobox/Listbox.Select (with Listbox.Select allowing bulk) - Listbox.SelectAll -- have Combobox.InsertBefore, Listbox.InsertBefore, Combobox.Delete, and Listbox.Delete return an error on invalid index before creation +- have Combobox.InsertBefore, Listbox.InsertBefore, Combobox.Delete, and Listbox.Delete return an error on invalid index before creation, or have them panic like an invalid array index, etc.; decide which to do as these do differnet things on different platforms by default + - same for other methods that take indices, like the Stack and Grid stretchy methods - make the Windows implementation of message boxes run on uitask - ensure MsgBoxError can run if initialization failed if things change ever - should Labels be selectable? @@ -27,15 +26,15 @@ so I don't forget: important things: - because the main event loop is not called if initialization fails, it is presently impossible for MsgBoxError() to work if UI initialization fails; this basically means we cannot allow initializiation to fail on Mac OS X if we want to be able to report UI init failures to the user with one - figure out where to auto-place windows in Cocoa (also window coordinates are still not flipped properly so (0,0) on screen is the bottom-left) - - also provide a method to center windoes; Cocoa provides one for us but + - also provide a method to center windows; Cocoa provides one for us but - I think Cocoa NSButton text is not vertically aligned properly...? -- NSPopUpButton doesn't seem to allow no initial selection? need to be sure +- NSPopUpButton does allow no initial selection ([b setSelectedIndex:-1]); use it + - find out if I can do the same with the ListBoxes - NSComboBox scans the entered text to see if it matches one of the items and returns the index of that item if it does; find out how to suppress this so that it returns -1 unless the item was chosen from the list (like the other platforms) -- figure out what to do about deleting a nonexistent item; each backend responds differently by default - some Cocoa controls don't seem to resize correctly: Buttons have space around the edges and don't satisfy stretchiness -- find out how to deselect the first item in the NSTableView when first creating the Listbox (to make it work like on other platforms) -- there's no GTK+ error handling whatsoever; we need to figure out how it works -- make sure GTK+ documentation point differences don't matter +- there's no GTK+ or Cocoa error handling whatsoever; we need to figure out how it works + - I know how Cocoa error handling works: it uses Cocoa exceptions; need to figure out how to catch and handle them somehow +- make sure GTK+ documentation version point differences (x in 4.3.x) don't matter - button sizes and LineEdit sizes on Windows seem too big; Comboboxes have margins - Cocoa has similar margining issues (like on Comboboxes) - sometimes the size of the drop-down part of a Combobox becomes 0 or 1 or some other impossibly small value on Windows @@ -43,22 +42,22 @@ important things: - make sure scrollbars in Listbox work identically on all platforms (specifically the existence and autohiding of both horizontal and vertical scrollbars) super ultra important things: -- for some reason events are now delayed on windows - the windows build appears to be unstable: - 64-bit doesn't work, period: it crashes in malloc in wine with heap corruption warnings aplenty during DLL loading; in windows 7 it works fine - 32-bit: it works now, but if I save the class name converted to UTF-16 beforehand, wine indicates that the class name is replaced with the window title, so something there is wrong... -- on 64-bit windows 7 comboboxes don't show their lists - handle in-library panics (internal errors) by reporting them to the user - david wendt is telling me he's getting frequent crashes on his end with the GTK+ amd64 build... TODO re-evaluate; I think I fixed them all ages ago now - occasionally I get panic: error sending message to message loop to call function: Invalid thread ID. when starting up the windows/386 build; race in ui()/msgloop()? + - happens the first time I run a new build in wine; also if my computer is running too slowly when running in wine important things: -- Control.preferredSize() (definitely needed for Grid and Form) - make specific wording in documentation consistent (make/create, etc.) + - document minor details like wha thappens on specific events so that they are guaranteed to work the same on all platforms - make passing of parameters and type conversions of parameters to uitask consistent + - TODO figure out what I meant by this; I don't remember far off: - localization