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- This file contains a list of bugs to fix and minor feature changes
- needed in the Tk toolkit. The list is ordered by the time when the
- idea for the change first arose; no priority should be inferred from
- the order.
-
- 6. Fill in default argument table in tkArgv.c, and document it.
-
- 8. Change Tk_Uid stuff so that there's a fast way to tell if a
- string is really a Tk_Uid.
-
- 10. Write procedure to translate from a string to a Pixmap.
-
- 26. Extend "configure" widget command to output the type of the
- option (string, color, etc.)? Or should this be done with the class
- field?
-
- 28. Need mechanism to change the name of a top-level window.
-
- 30. Make "." a frame widget in wish?
-
- 47. Add new "option" subcommands to (a) query whole database or
- (b) query all the option patterns that match for a particular option
- (i.e. don't just return the one that will actually be used).
-
- 50. In error-handling code, ignore BadWindow errors if they occur
- for a seemingly-legitimate Tk window.
-
- 63. Provide way to determine "type" of window (i.e. command under which
- it was created) rather than current class?
-
- 68. Write manual entries for new exported binding procedures.
-
- 75. Change Tk_Uid typedef to prevent confusion with (char *)?
-
- 76. Change listbox selection handling to return multiple items separated
- by newlines rather than as a Tcl list?
-
- 81. For check and radio buttons, change "command" config to separate
- commands invoked when button becomes selected/deselected?
-
- 86. Change "tkVersion" variable to "tk_version" for consistency.
-
- 89. Eliminate hard-wired behavior for scales and scrollbars: use class
- bindings instead.
-
- 92. Add mechanism for interposing constraints in geometry management,
- e.g. to allow a collection of buttons to all request same width (for
- tables) or to provide a generic mechanism for padding widgets internally.
-
- 93. Add way to find out which geometry manager "owns" a particular
- window. Also, Tk_SetInternalBorder isn't notify geometry managers
- correctly (it assumes that slaves are children). Also, it would be
- nice to have a callback to notify a geometry manager if one of its
- slaves is taken away from it by another geometry manager.
-
- 98. Add Tk command to compute the bbox of a given text string in a given
- font?
-
- 100. Extend scrollbar "set" command so that arrow increment can be set
- explicitly. Or, change scrollbar interface completely so that the
- scrollbar only gets two numbers giving slider position, and sends
- commands of the form "foo scroll up1" or "foo scroll upScreen".
-
- 101. Eliminate TK_DONT_WAIT option to Tk_DoOneEvent.
-
- 103. Get image displaying widget from Paul Mackerras (paulus@cs.anu.edu.au)
- and incorporate into Tk.
-
- 105. Eliminate the "activate" and "deactivate" commands for buttons
- and menu buttons.
-
- 106. Add feature to buttons for automatic defaulting, where button
- allocates extra space for default ring.
-
- 107. Eliminate the "disable" and "enable" commands for menus.
-
- 108. Change Tk_GetAtomName to return NULL instead of "?bad atom?".
-
- 110. Extend bitmaps to allow direct specification (#0xffff ...)
-
- 114. Change default so that windows are normally resizable?
-
- 115. Change Tk_GetSelection to look in the cut buffer if no selection
- can be found.
-
- 117. Implement a mechanism for retrieving just the value of a configuration
- option, without all the other stuff (name, default, etc.). Perhaps
- a "cvalue" widget command?
-
- 124. Remove "-geometry" option from all widgets, and use "-width" and
- "-height" instead.
-
- 128. Scroll windows when selecting off edge of window (do for listboxes,
- entries, and text)?
-
- 129. Add keyboard traversal to text and listboxes.
-
- 131. Should new characters in text widget get tags of character they
- precede or character they follow (currently it's "follow")? Or neither?
-
- 132. Extend "option" command to make it possible to retrieve the original
- resource pattern specs.
-
- 134. Allow upper-left character in text not to be the first character
- of a line: otherwise, with very long line and small window, won't be
- able to view the end of a line.
-
- 136. Implement mechanism for using existing window as main window for
- application, support with command-line argument in wish.
-
- 137. Modify default bindings so that they can handle multiple mice working
- simultaneously on different displays (right now there is a single variable
- that keeps track of the active window, for example).
-
- 138. Add packer option not to set requested geometry for parent window?
-
- 139. Change canvas Postscript generation to be smarter about font names
- that have been abbreviated: use X to look up the full name.
-
- 140. Canvas Postscript isn't stippling text like it should: the code
- seems not to have been written at all.
-
- 141. Change "send" code to be cleverer about reclaiming names of dead
- interpreters. E.g. check for duplicate window names in the registry
- or check for a unique-id property on the commWindow.
-
- 142. Need to add "-displayfor" option to the following commands:
- focus, selection, send.
-
- 143. There are tricky issues about send and multiple displays. Does
- some name get registered for a top-level window on a new display? If
- so, how to deal with multiple different names for application? If not,
- can this window be sent to by other applications on its display?
-
- 144. In text widgets, if you backspace over a newline, the caret sometimes
- leaves garbage at the left edge of its previous (lower) line.
-
- 145. Incorporate Mark Diekhans' "addinput" or something like it.
-
- 146. Change main.c to use "name" to set the class, instead of Tk.
-
- 147. Add "window" entry to menus.
-
- 148. Add an "initProc" and a "freeProc" to TK_CONFIG_CUSTOM config types.
-
- 149. Remove Tcl_PrintDouble override macro in tkInt.h.
-
- 150. In SYNONYM options, specify a command-line switch for the other
- option, not a database name.
-
- 151. Rename "pack newinfo" to "pack info".
-
- 152. Make canvas window items restack in response to canvase "raise"
- and "lower" commands.
-