Wish / TODO list for W

Graphics drivers:

• Fore/background color setting functions for non-monochrome graphics drivers (TeSche). *
• Adding graphics modes for bitblit functions. This would be a great help for arcade games. *
• Adding graphics modes for text functions.
• Different line widths.

  W server:

• Arrow etc. special key mapping to Wlib.h defined values by W server and modifier key events (or special bits in the normal key events). *
• Default server font. *
• Window resizing (TeSche). *
• Server timestamps onto events. This could be of help when checking for double clicks in application.
• Font server. Would take care of font loading, conversion (e.g. from vector to bitmap), substituting and sending them to server.
• Copy / paste and clipboard concept. *
• Client communication with W messages / events. With W or Wt clipboard this could be used for implementing Drag-an'-Drop. *

  W library:

• A function for 'peeking' at the W events. *
• User access to W server graphics contexts (used instead of individual graphics attributes).
• Using shared memory to transfer application images to server when on the same machine.

  W toolkit:

• A style guide on widget programming. *
• Copy/paste to Wt widgets. Done for apps on the same machine (as W server doesn't support clipboard yet). *
• Some additional W toolkit widgets (Kay, Eero). Most necessary ones (containers, fileselector etc.) have now been implemented but aren't yet a part of the latest Wt release.
• Window based focus to W Toolkit + focus changing shortcuts. Currently focus is app specific. *
• Properties / help attribute for widgets, of which help would be handled automatically if it's available.
• Visual grouping / separation of W toolkit components on screen. The trouble is that containers are just that, they can't contain graphics (e.g. box around radio button group).

  Applications:

• W terminal with copy / paste (Kay).
• Program launch bar + icon editor (Eero).
• File manager / file type associated program launcher.
• HTML 1.0 browser for Wt (Kay).
• Fairly complete text editor.
• Bitmap, font, sample etc. editors.
• Network applications like mail and ftp (Eero did some board games).
• Wt interface builder.

Feel free to contact author(s) or the mailing list w-users@phil.uni-sb.de if you want to give a try to any of these or something else or have a feature in mind that would be a nice addition (preferably small and easy to add :)).