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                           Allegro Dialogs Made Easy

                                   Wish List

                               by Sven Sandberg

Wish List

These are features that might be useful to add to Adime. However, I have very little time for working on Adime myself, and it has low priority for me. So if you want some feature, it's better to write it yourself and send a patch.

• Write makefile for generic Unix, and for all future ports of Allegro.
• 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.
• The following format specifiers:
  • %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]
    %radiovlist[title,list]
    Almost like %list/%vlist, 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 "Adime Metrics" and "Adime Colors" to get a different style.
• 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. However, this is much harder to fix than it may sound so I don't know if it's worth the effort.
• Movable windows. (Merge code from BGUI?)
• Make adime_dialogf() etc actually use our enhanced edit boxes - just need a new adime_d_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.
• It would be nice to support generating chm docs with hhm, (http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/hhm/index.html) if/when it can do that. This is the only part that has to be done with non-free tools right now.