Wine ToDo's

[Tom]

Hi,

Anyone have anything to add to this before I send it to wine patches ?

Tom


Wine Status - Known To Dos

Window management


In Desktop Mode all processes started from one wine invocation should be confined to one desktop window.
Window management needs proper inter-process handling of activation, focus, repaint.
Workaround for the "no keyboard without Desktop mode" problem.



National Language Support


Make sure ASCII functions call the Unicode one and not the other way around.(probably will stay forever.)
BiDi support (currently in works)
Add localization to more languages.(probably will stay forever.)
Add localization to more parts of Wine.(probably will stay forever.)
Better support of Chinese, Korean, Japanese...(currently in works)


x11drv


Add support for keyboard layout APIs.


NTDLL


Finish ntdll/kernel32 separation.
Implement security APIs and make them use native OS security facilities.


Winsock


Fix use of direct system calls by Winsock 1 (in particular, select()).
    Use Wine Synchronization APIs instead.
More unit tests, e.g. for asynchronous IO.
Make sure OOB data is handled properly.
WS2: Implement service programming interface (SPI), use for supporting
    other services.
Try to provide more services such as IrDA natively.
Fix stubs left in ws2_32.spec


DirectX

[DirectShow]

    - Filter manager (IGraphBuilder)
    - File source filter
    - Video renderer
    - Audio renderer
    - AVI splitter
[DirectDraw]

    - YUV overlays
    - Support for FOURCC surface

[D3D]

    - Compressed texture support
    - Improve Z Buffer support 
    - Multi texturing (and more generally, OpenGL extension handling)
    - Off screen rendering
    - Proper color keying
    - Finish migration of D3D1-7 code to use d3dcore 
    - Add hardware vertex shader and pixel shader support
    - LOD support
    - Multisampling (antialising) support
    - Palette texturing fixes (not really tested)
    - Swapchain support
    - Better device management (mainly caps)
    - index/vertex buffer hardware support
    - Surface->DC handling
    - Real Preloading support (using a memory manager)
    - UpdateTexture/UpdateSurface
    - various optimisations

[DirectSound]

    - Hardware accelerated direct sound capture driver support using the Windows CE2 HAL API
    - 3D buffer support in software is present but incomplete.
    - 3D buffer hardware support
    - Sound effects on buffers
    - Capture effects
    - Full duplex support is stubbed out but not functional.
    - DX9 support for new PCM formats (24/32 bit and float samples) and for more than 2 channels is not present.

[DirectMusic]

    - DMusicPerformance scanning of files

[DirectInput] 

    - Improve DX8 support (especially joystick) 

[DirectPlay] 

    - Add support for DX8 



Sound Drivers


ALSA driver (on final 0.9 interface)
Improve the jack audio server, e.g. WaveIn & Resampling.
Implement the audio compression codecs.
Fix Sound Blaster emulation.


Video

msrle32 : nearly complete
     - some improvements possible
     - ICM_DECOMPRESS_SET_PALETTE (if needed)

avifil32: (sorted by decreasing priority)
     - make the hole library thread save
     - interface for AVI files:
     - interleave support
     - native version has problems with reading our files
     - interface decompressing video:
     - interface for WAV files:
      - Sun Audio still missing.
     * API for saving:
      - only (semi-)stubs.
     * API and interface for editing:
      - only stubs, need implementation of IAVIEditStream interface
     * API for clipboard:
      - only stubs. (native version doesn't work).
     * API for streaming:
      - only stubs. (definitions in vfw.h are missing)
      - translation of resource's to some often used languages: French, ...
      
msvfw32:
     * DrawDib needs some work
      - Some flags are ignored
      - handle palette
     * stub implementation for file dialogs with AVI preview
     * stub implementation for codec-selection-dialog
     * resources are missing (also see the 2 above points)
     * StretchDib method is missing
     * many 16-bit methods are missing

avicap32: "Video Capture"
     * only stub DLL.


FreeBSD


Add support for MZ_SUPPORTED


DOS


VM86 emulation still has races in irq handling.
DPMI supports now irqs but still not interrupt reflection.
Obsolete Win32s VxDs need to be deleted.
VxD handling should be rewritten so that it no longer uses a separate 16-bit DLL.
If Win16 program uses real mode code, there are code paths where Wine fails to properly initialize DOS memory.
DOS memory management code needs restructuring.
Ioport emulation code should be migrated to winedos.
VESA emulation is missing many important functions.
Bitplane VGA modes are totally unsupported.
Many DOS7 extensions are missing.
System timer code only supports simple cases.
DOS4GW does not work.
NTDLL still has lots of DOS emulation code.


GDI


DIB engine


GDB


Add the MSC/PDB info support to gdb


Winedbg


Make winedbg use dbghelp DLL
Speed up PDB support


DDE


Enhance memory management issues (interprocess sending)


OLE


Handle apartments properly in CoCreateInstance, etc.
Fix type library support
Implement ICreateTypeLib support
Implement Var* (e.g. VarMod) and variant conversion routines
Implement missing features in OLE*.


Native Programs


Winhelp: fix invocation thru WinHelp


File Management


Implement NT file namespace
UNC support
Allow flexibility in FS "mounting" (for example, SMB shares)


Fonts


Support for non-TT fonts (eg Type1, bitmap,....)
Subpixel rendering - a.k.a. ClearType
Reduce per font startup time


Printers


Write a printer configuration applet


Tools


Wine installation process should install and configure wine
Perform Windows' reboot operations automatically when required
Winemaker fixes
Run C regression tests on Windows with MSVC
Work on WRC as it does not find system headers


Instructions


Documentation updates


Aspect or Component


Review of Wine Server Protocol
Finalize Server Protocol
Visual C++'s native COM support
Create replacement of browser component (Internet Explorer/IExplore)


Porting issues for Mingw/Cygwin/MS_VC


Better separation of win16/32 code
Remove/rewrite win16/9x API dependency on newer code
Remove/rewrite wineisms from code
Rewrite/fix unixisms in most WINE dlls
Documentation fixes


Low priority items


VxD support with dynamic loading



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