GacUI/TODO.md

TODO

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/33778843

Vlpp

• Regex supports UTF-16 (instead of UCS-2) on MSVC.
  • Always convert to UTF-32 internally (vl::regex::Utf32Reader).
• Redesign vl::parsing.
  • No need to specify ambiguity
  • Will print all ambiguous cases and marked AST node
  • ToString with hints and custom options
  • Print diff when updating AST (for IDE)
  • All existing features and backward compatible interface design

(optional)

• Binary ITypeDescriptor provider format.
• API to import and export fake types (ITypeDescriptor that cannot be executed)

Workflow

• Workflow to C++ code generation with hint.
  • Don't create IValueList if apply {1 2 3} on List<int> argument.
  • Leave spaces for user defined #includes or using namespaces.

(optional)

• Support <category>name identifier, make generated code re-parsable.
• Separate assembly binary to types, instructions and debug informations.
• WorkflowCompiler.exe (x32/x64)
  • Enable external symbols
  • Compile
  • Binary Output (full assembly or types only)
  • C++ Codegen (x32/x64)

(probably not do)

• Macro
• Context-Grammar Sensitive Macro
• Virtual function
• Class implements interface

GacUI

Before 1.0

• Redesign ToolstripMenu so that toolstrip items can be managed by an item source
  • GuiToolstripCollection remove the space of an item if its Visible property is false
  • GuiToolstripGroupContainer insert splitters between items
    • SplitterTemplate property
    • ToolstripItems (default) property
  • GuiToolstripGroup insert multiple items in one control
    • ToolstripItems (default) property
• <eval Ref="Name"/> and <eval Eval="expression"/> tags
• Real visual state: different layouts / different images in different sizes
• Add and query services from controls
• Demo: DocumentEditor
  • Manually crafted Ribbon
• Demo: TextEditor
  • Use toolstrip group instead of splitter
  • Recently opened files in both menu and toolbar
• Update Release
• Normal text box supports surrogate pairs like document viewer
• RTF / HTML clipboard format for document viewer
• Locale awared text resource with str:// protocol
• Demo: DocumentEditor
  • Load / Save
• Update Release
• New default control templates with animation, written in XML generated C++ code.
• A window can be called to update all its controls' and components' template
• Tutorials use the new default control templates
• Update Release
• Enable Workflow script template for IGuiInstanceLoader written in text
• Update Release
• (optional) ViewModelContext property for GuiListControl instead of GuiVirtualDataGrid
• (optional) ViewModelContext property for repeat compositions
• Update Release
• Inheritable custom window / control
• Resource should have name and version
• Depend on another resource, to decide loading order
• Update Release
• (optional) Update all control template properties to have in or out prefix
  • in: Template implementation should read
  • out: Template implementation should write
• Render focus
• BlackSkin window template handle window properties (border, buttons, ...)
• SM_CXPADDEDBORDER + SM_CXFRAME == 8, don't hardcode this in DarkSkin.xml. This is for the necessary border when the window is maximized.
• High DPI for Direct2D (GDI will blur)
• Update Release

Graphics

• MetaImageElement and MetaImage data structure
• Remove PolygonElement
• Default non-text element renderer using MetaImageElement
• Replacing GDI and D2D non-text element renderers
• Meta3DElement and Meta3D data structure
• Default Meta3DElement renderer using MetaImageElement with a surface sorting based algorithm

Controls

• Chart
• Ribbon
• Dock Container
• Icon

(probably not do)

• GuiCustomControl::SetContainerComposition // using a special syntax
• InstanceStyle:Replace

GacGen.exe

• Enable linking to external symbols

(optional)

• In the final pass, only workflow scripts are printed
  • Use WorkflowCompiler.exe to do codegen externally

GacStudio.exe

DocTools

• Rewrite in C++