libui/TODO.md

• 32-bit Mac OS X support (requires lots of code changes)
• add a test for hidden controls when a window is shown
• SWP_NOCOPYBITS (or was it WS_CLIPCHILDREN?)
  • buttons not in tab get drawover issues
  • buttons in tab without transparent drawing code get copied into the label when stack shown and rehidden
• settle onDestroy/destroy naming
• implement lifetiming on Windows
• forbid free(NULL) to check for bugs
• opposite side alignment control in uiBox
• disabling containers on wine doesn't redraw children as disabled
  • test on real windows
• collapse multiple consecutive menu separators?
  • including for quit/preferences/about?
    • or not even have separators there?
      • in which case, hide leading or trailing separators?
• write an array.c for uiBox, uiGrid, and the Windows backend
  • it'd just be a clone of GArray from GLib
• add the visibility stuff to the Windows makefile
  • figure out visibility on mac os x
  • hide command lines in the makefile
• rename newcontrol.[cm] to control.[cm] or something else?
• use _UI_EXPORT on OS-specific functions
  • make their headers generated by an IDL
• make sure complain()s don't have \n at the end; add one on each platform
  • add a [libui] to the beginning of the message
• figure out what to do on Windows and GTK+ if we don't have menus but the user wants a menubar (zero-height widget? don't bother? complain?)
• bin.c
  • find a way to consolidate the duplicate code across OSs
  • find a way to move the has parent check at the beginning of binDestroy()
  • determine whether or not margins count in preferredSize() when there is no main control
• menu item state change while the menu is visible (not in response to user action)
  • OS X: requires an [NSMenu update] call after changing state
  • Windows: requires getting current menu state when amending it in sync()
• figure out where we should return HRESULTs
• Windows: don't abort if a cleanup function fails?
• should uiWindowOnClosing() really return an int?
  • if so, should the default return 0 instead of 1?
• note that uiInitOptions should be initialized to zero
  • have a cbSize member
• drop "Page" from uiTab method names? (uiTabAppendPage() -> uiTabAppend())
• override dock menu quit item to act like our app menu quit item
• consider calling setAppleMenu: for the application menu; it doesn't seem to make much of a difference but
• release OS X properties in dealloc
  • switch away from properties or figure out what incantation is necessary for 32-bit
  • figure out strong/weak vs assign/copy/retain
• figure out what to do in OS X terminate:
• clean up bin handling
  • is binSetOSParent() even needed?
• readd the allocation tracking as just a list of pointers
• add a final cleanup function (uiUninit() or uiCleanup())
• whenever a list of things is destroyed, each successive item must be removed as it is destroyed, otherwise we might wind up in a situation where we access items after they're freed
• make the name of the variable to refer to a single tab page consistent (already decided to make them all page)
• make sure uiEntryOnChanged() is not triggered when calling uiEntrySetText()
• clean up windows resizing logic
  • make it so that only top-level window resizes trigger an update; container resizes do not update
    • windows resizing logic is simply not comprehensive enough (no null resizes allowed) to do things
    • we control resizes of all children so we can reliably update after a resize
    • we already need to do this in uiContainer :/
• make it so Windows API calls that do logLastError(), etc. abort whatever they're doing and not try to continue, just like wintable

ultimately:

• add some sort of runtime type checking
• MAYBE readd lifetime handling/destruction blocking
• figure out how to integrate leak checking into the source tree
• assign control IDs on windows
  • GWL(P)_ID
  • related? [12:25] And the blue outline on those buttons [ALL clicked buttons on Windows 7] won't go away
    • I get this too

notes to self

• explicitly document label position at top-left corner
• mark that uiControlShow() on a uiWindow() will bring to front and give keyboard focus because of OS X
  • make sure ShowWindow() is sufficient for zorder on Windows
• document that you can't use InsertBefore functions to insert before a nonexistent index (that includes if an array is empty)
  • reconsider this, as the pointer array code does work with the first invalid index...
    • we would need to test everything else with it
• note that uiTabInsertPageBefore() does NOT change the current tab page (it may change its index if inserting before the current page)