TODO.md

TODO

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/39369370

GacUI 1.0

• Workflow Codegen
  • When some ref.CodeBehind="false" classes inherit from a ref.CodeBehind="true" one, group them in a different pair of files.
  • USERIMPL_BEGIN and USERIMPL_END for header includes, cpp includes and class members.
  • Put USERIMPL series macros in VlppWorkflowLibrary.h
• Document clipboard data should have version
• Word doesn't recognize embedded GIF represented by data URL in HTML clipboard format.
• Update Release
• CppMerge.exe reports error instead of crashes
• Add and query services from controls
• 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
• 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)
• Window Icon
• Update Release

GacUI 2.0

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

Workflow

• Don't create IValueList if apply {1 2 3} on List<int> argument.
• Support <category>name identifier, make generated code re-parsable.
• 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 (Optional)

• <eval Ref="Name"/> and <eval Eval="expression"/> tags
• Enable Workflow script template for IGuiInstanceLoader written in text

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
• Dock Container

Binders

• Web assembly
• XML Metadata output for codegen written by users

GacGen.exe

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

GacStudio.exe

DocTools

• Rewrite in C++