andlabs-ui/todo.md

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so I don't forget:

  • Window.SizeToFit() or WIndow.OptimalSize() (use: Window.SetSize(Window.OptimalSize())) 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] should ListBox have a border style?
    • 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?
  • 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
  • make the Windows implementation of message boxes run on uitask
    • ensure MsgBoxError can run if initialization failed if things change ever

important things:

  • ui.Go() should exit when the main() you pass in exits
  • 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
  • Cocoa coordinates have (0,0) at the bottom left: need to fix this somehow
  • I think Cocoa NSButton text is not vertically aligned properly...?
  • resizing Cocoa windows does not redraw controls correctly
  • there's no GTK+ error handling whatsoever; we need to figure out how it works
  • make sure GTK+ documentation point differences don't matter
  • button sizes and LineEdit sizes on Windows seem too big; Comboboxes have margins
  • sometimes the size of the drop-down part of a Combobox becomes 0 or 1 or some other impossibly small value on Windows
  • make gcc (Unix)/clang (Mac OS X) pedantic about warnings/errors; also -Werror

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()?

important things:

  • Control.preferredSize() (definitely needed for Grid and Form)
  • make specific wording in documentation consistent (make/create, etc.)
  • make passing of parameters and type conversions of parameters to uitask consistent

far off:

  • localization
  • strip unused constants from the Windows files
  • combine more Windows files; rename some?

maybe:

  • rename Stack to Box?
  • make Combobox and Listbox satisfy sort.Interface?
  • indeterminate progress bars (not supported on Windows 2000)