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Wishlist/ToDo-List

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Known bugs

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(None known)

TODO

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* Write an updated manual based on the Filter Factory documentation

Minor priority stuff or ideas

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* Filter Factory is much faster than Filter Foundry (example rad.afs). Why?!

* Why doesn't the OpenWatcom files have a PE checksum?

* When a filter is created obfuscated and you click "Make" again, should then be the "obfuscate" checkbox be checked again?

* The filter `r*(y&1)` looks horrible when you zoom out!

* Memory leak: `strdup()` and `my_strdup()` need `free()` !

* Why can't we edit *.rc files in Visual Studio?

* host_preserves_parameters (enabled with GIMP/PSPI) should somehow delete the temporary AFS file at each restart of GIMP. Otherwise, the user would always see the previous session when they re-open GIMP.

* Create and evaluate more testcases, and either fix differences between FilterFactory and FilterFoundry, or document them in "Filter Factory Compatibility.md"

* Should an expression like "----r" be forbidden? (Multiple negate signs) On the other hand, FilterFactory didn't forbit them either.

* CMYK mode is possible (although a bit misleading to have r=c, g=m, b=y, a=k), but then it is impossible to control the alpha channel.

* I have found following in the source code... Do we need to do something here?

        strcpy(gdata->parm.formula[i],expr[i] ? expr[i] : "bug! see builddlgitem");

* Search for "TODO", "FIXME" and "Codereview" in the code

* Evaluate the file "Filter Factory Compatibility.md" and think about if we should change some of our functions to become 100% compatible with Filter Factory.

* There is no warning if a formula contains a number that exceeds 32 bits.

* Check, if all combinations of imports work, see testcases/import/README.md

* Minor bug: Testcase testcases/rst_3.afs applied to a 1000x1000 canvas: When the preview is zoomed in to 29% or 59%, and the preview is panned, the bars change during panning. It does not look "smooth" like in 100%, 50%, or 25% zoom. The problem is that the offset of the preview area is always different, and if the zoom level is not a multiple of two, you will always "pick" other bars.

* Fast (double) click in [+]/[-] scroll buttons is not accepted as 2 clicks / zoom-requests

* Support more colors modes and 16bit. Why is Lab color not accepted, although doesSupportLABColor is set?

* Add Unicode support? (Does PiPL support Unicode at all?)

* Picture with 78x63 in grayscale mode: In preview on the left side there is a black bar

* With the change in 1.7 in re "*preview evaluates whole picture if state changing functions rst,put,rnd are used*": Is there anything we can do to make it more performant when the user changes sliders? Especially with large pictures, the process becomes a bit laggy!

* Check why the plugin crashes Premiere 5 (called in image filter mode; obviously not as transition filter)

Questions

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* Why does everybody write that the Filter Factory tan(x) function is bounded?

  The Filter Factory manual writes that it is bounded, and the Filter Factory Programming Guide

  does also mention it (including a graphic).

  Is it a bug that it goes infinity? Do we need to fix it in Filter Foundry???

  Following examples of Filter Factory show that it is going off-bound! (Also tested with PS 3.0.5)

    tan(255)  ==  167761 ? 255 : 0

    tan(256)  == -167772 ? 255 : 0

    tan(-768) ==  167772 ? 255 : 0

Design/UI Tweaks

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* Windows open file dialog: Why does it have a preview pane?

* The exclamation mark symbols should have a tooltip ("hint") when the mouse hovers over it. (Also for Mac). Not sure how easy it is to do that with WIN32 API

* Should it be possible to zoom more than 100%?

* The vertical scrollbar should auto-hide when the expression formula is short. (Also for Mac). Unfortunately, this task is very hard in WIN32 API.

* Should there be more (visual) space for expressions, like in Filter Factory?

* Sliders are extremely tiny!

* "+" and "-" buttons with hand pointer cursor?

* With some canvas formats, the initial zoom level is not "fully zoomed out"

* If you load an AFS file which has multi-line expressions, then the first expression (R) is scrolled down (because it has the focus)

Regarding Macintosh

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* Unsure regarding AppleScript !

	https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/Interapplication_Communication/AE_Term_Resources.pdf

	1. Do we need an 'auet' resource?

	2. Does our implementation work with AppleScript?

	3. Must the human-language term REALLY be unique?! So only one plugin on the whole system may use the word "ctl(0)" or "red" or "size"??? Why do we have unique keys if the human language needs to be unique too?!  (see "Important" section at page 8-14)

* In ui_mac.c, there does not seem to be a limit for the expressions. So, is it possible to write an expression longer than 1023 bytes, which would lead to a crash?

* Macintosh: Please look at the (*) marked entries in CHANGELOG.md and verify the bugs/fixes and/or apply the changes on Mac.

* Macintosh: Is it possible to create a 64 bit version of FilterFoundry? Do we need to rewrite the UI code because the Carbon Framework is replaced by Cocoa!

* Some *.r files include "PiMI.r". Is this part of an old SDK or is a file missing?

* Support BigDocument (Add "ms32" PiPL, set pb->bigDocumentData->PluginUsing32BitCoordinates and use pb->bigDocumentData->*)

Things to check/correct for other Telegraphics plugins (FIXED in FilterFoundry)

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* The lengths of the PIPL TLV structure must include everything, including string paddings, with 1 zero padding guaranteed. See annotations in "GIMP Incompatibilities.md".

* The language/country code in VarFileInfo must be a code that exists in StringFileInfo. The translation strings "04900000" don't fit together "080904B0".

* 64 Bit Windows builds

* XP Manifests (+ activation contexts)

* Fix AETE resources, make keys unique and remove scope in order to enable AppleScript

* Support BigDocument (Add "ms32" PiPL, set pb->bigDocumentData->PluginUsing32BitCoordinates and use pb->bigDocumentData->*)

* Place plugin dialogs on the correct screen