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                               Dialogs Made Easy

                                   Wish List

                               by Sven Sandberg

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Wish List

Wish List

Wish List

These are features that I'd like to implement some day.

• Write makefiles for Unix, BeOS and Borland C++ (and Mac?). I need help for this!

• Make all gui functions be function pointers so that the user can hook the dialog procs and give them different looks.

• Datafiles should have an option for ability to select nothing.

• An example on how to use the `dialogf_callback()' function pointer.

• dialogf_ex() with support for specifying which buttons (eg. ok, cancel, back etc) should appear at the bottom. This can use a format string.

• `dialogf_callback()' will currently stop being called when the user opens a file selector. This should be fixed (can be done with Allegro WIP 3.9.34 using custom callbacks).

• Add an extra optional modifier to the "%dialogf[]" format, so that "%dialogf[title,x]" means that an extra argument follows. This argument is a function pointer which will be called when the sub-dialog is being closed, and it has the ability to close the parent dialog.

• The following format specifiers:
  • %button
    A button that calls a user specified callback function.

  • %closebutton
    A button that closes the dialog.

  • %gridfloat, %cgridfloat,
    %griddouble, %cgriddouble,
    %gridint, %cgridint,
    %griduint, %cgriduint,
    %gridstring
    Lets the user edit a two dimensional grid of numbers/texts.

  • %color
    A color. Next argument should be an `int *'.

  • %color8
    A color in a palette. Next argument should be an `int *' (for the color), and the argument after that should be an `RGB *' for the palette, or `NULL' to use current palette.

  • %slider[max]
    A slider control where the user can drag a handle to select an integer. Next argument should be an `int *' in which the result will be stored. `max' specifies the max value of the slider, inclusive. Min value is always 0, inclusive.

  • %radiolist[title,list]
    Almost like %list, but will display as a set of radio buttons rather than as a list. Also, this doesn't take the `lines' modifier that %list takes.

• Automatic scroll bars if the window gets too high. Currently the objects will just be invisible and unreachable which isn't exactly beautiful.

• An example on using the "Dime Metrics" and "Dime Colors".

• Currently, nested dialogs behave a bit weird when ok'ing a sub-dialog and then cancelling a parent dialog: the sub-dialog will continue being ok'ed. This is harder than it sounds to fix, but would be good to have anyway.

• Movable windows. (See if I can merge code from BGUI?)

• Find some way to make the file selector look 3d-ish. (Use BGUI?)

• Make dialogf() etc actually use our enhanced edit boxes - just need a new d_dime_edit_proc().

• Make the %wstrlist, %wlist, %wdatafile formats look like a combo box rather than being an own window.

• Write a better suited calculator?

• A completely new function that does the same as Allegro's `alert()', but with automatic line breaking and with a format string for the buttons would be useful to have. I'm not sure if it should go in this library or an own though.

• Some way to show help and/or tooltips.