Rapicorn Task List

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Task List

The Rapicorn task list gives a high level overview of features that are still unimplemented. Feedback and discussions are welcome on the Rapicorn Mailing list.

Feature	Notes
Simple API	Implemented Simplify Python API, minimize API calls to get UI up Simplify C++ API to be as simple as Python, except for decorators
Level 3 Selectors	Implemented Support Level 3 Selectors on widget hierarchies Dart API example: querySelector
Resource References	Implemented Support resource IDs: @string/... Android resource specification The rapidres(1) utility now replaces zintern (former internal tool) and automatically compiles the res/ build directory
9-Patch Rendering	Implemented Add widget with 9-Patch (SVG) element rendering [1] Add container for child allocation with the child size specified by a 9-Patch fill area Revamp widget states to allow state coverage with SVG elements
SVG Widgets	Implemented Support SVG warping and stretching similar to 9-patch images Support child size allocation based on SVG images
Image Loaders	Implemented (PNG, SVG) Add PNG loader & rendering Add SVG loader & rendering
Cairo Rendering	Implemented Port all rendering primitives to use Cairo API Use Cairo surfaces as widget rendering buffer internally
Keyboard Input	Implemented (FocusFrame) Add support for X11 XIM input methods and compose key Generate UTF-8 text input from X11 keyboard input Add widget focus, move on LEFT/RIGHT/UP/DOWN/PREV/NEXT
Data Widgets	Implemented Implement WidgetList, Label, Text::Editor
Control Containers	Implemented Implement Button types, FocusFrame, Slider
Layout Containers	Implemented Implement Alignment, HBox, VBox, Table, Arrangement, ScrollArea, Window
Paint Widgets	Implemented Implement Arrow, Image, Ambience, Frame, DotGrid, Drawable
Widget Groups	Implemented Support SizeGroup specification in XML declarations (Widget::hsize_group, Widget::vsize_group) Generalize SizeGroup to WidgetGroup to allow arbitrary grouping of widgets
Arbitrary Size Negotiation	Implemented (Negotiation) Support widgets tuning (changing) size requisition in response to certain size allocations. Support widget sizes below optimum requisition size for all widgets.
Widget Spreading	Implemented (Spreading) Propagate SPEAD flags up the hierarchy as if the corresponding EXPAND flag is set on all ancestors.
Micro Widget Composition	Implemented ([file:///opt/share/doc/rapicorn1307/html/factory_8hh.html factory.hh], Micro, Composites) Export Widget types to factory Generate widget hierarchies via factory from concise XML descriptions Allow XML definitions of widget composite types Forward adding/removing children of composite types to sub container with 'child-container' attribute Generalize SizeGroup to WidgetGroup to allow arbitrary grouping of widgets Compose complex widgets (e.g. Scrollbar) from multiple micro widgets (Arrows, Frames, FocusFrame, GripHandle, HBox/VBox, ScrollController, etc)
Event Processing	Implemented Add Event classes to process user input events and window resizing
X11 Copy & Paste	Implemented Support X11 PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections Translate X11 selection atoms into proper mime types (e.g. "text/plain;charset=utf-8")
X11 Backend	Implemented (ScreenWindow) Implement standalone X11 backend without further toolkit dependencies.
Seperate UI Thread	Implemented (UIThread) Move widget sizing, rendering, etc logic into its own thread
Asynchronous C++ Signals	Implemented (Aida::AsyncSignal::Emission) Add C++11 Signals Support asynchronous signal emissions to pass return values across threads
Dynamic Any	Implemented (Aida::Any) Implement dynamic Any type to pass arbitrary values
Tarball Docs	Implemented Include full documentation builds in tarballs.
Reference Documentation	Implemented Build reference documentation of all sources with Doxygen Extract IDL (property) documentation strings for Doxygen Include manual pages (from testbit.eu/wiki) as HTML Provide HTML coverage report online
IDL based Remote API	Implemented (AIDA) Introduce IDL files to specify external API Generate cross-thread remote API invocation from IDL Generate C++ language binding from IDL files Generate Python language binding from IDL files
PRNG & Entropy	Implemented Provide a Keccak based CSPRNG Collect Entropy from process stats, devices and /proc Provide SHA3 hash functions
cxxprintf	Implemented (StringFormatter) string_format: Provide fully functional printf substitute in C++11 without the downsides Replace all printf-like uses with string_format()
configure.ac	Implemented Port build system to newer autoconf and automake