Subversion Repositories filter_foundry

Wishlist/ToDo by Daniel Marschall <www.daniel-marschall.de>

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Important/Bugs

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* 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?

* Test with 64 Bit Mac, and publish 1.7 (when can we leave the beta state?)

  Windows 64 is already tested. We just need an updated Makefile.

* For Mac, please look at the (*) marked entries in version.h and verify the bugs/fixes

  and/or apply the changes on Mac.

Minor priority stuff or ideas

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* persistent_savestate (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.txt"

* 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.

* Other Telegraphics Filters have the same problem in VERSIONINFO where the translation

  strings "04900000" don't fit together "080904B0" (fixed in Filter Foundry)

* 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");

* Add pow() or "**" operator?

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

* Evaluate the file "Filter Factory Compatibility.txt" 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:

	Category: Premiere                    Ext.   Sig.     Testcase file(s)         WinImport       MacImport

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	Premiere Settings File                .pff   n/a      premiere*.pff            Works           TODO: Check

	Import Premiere for Windows 16bit     .prm   0x208C   premiere40.prm           Works           TODO: Check

	Import Premiere for Windows 32bit     .prm   0x208C   premiere50*.prm          Works           TODO: Check

	Import Premiere for MacOS             ???    ???      ???                      ???             ???

	Category: FilterFactory               Ext.   Sig.     Testcase file(s)         WinImport       MacImport

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	FilterFactory Settings File           .afs   n/a      factory30.afs            Works           TODO: Check

	Import FilterFactory for Windows      .8bf   0x2086   factory30.8bf            Works           TODO: Check

	Import FilterFactory for MacOS        .bin   0x1C86   mac_filterfactory.bin    Works           TODO: Check

	Category: FilterFoundry               Ext.   Sig.     Testcase file(s)         WinImport       MacImport

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	Import FilterFoundry 1.6 for Windows  .8bf   0x1C86   foundry16.8bf            Works           TODO: Check

	Import FilterFoundry 1.7 for Windows  .8bf   0x2086   (Wait for 1.7 release)

	Import FilterFoundry 1.6 for Mac      ???    ???      ???                      ???             ???

	Import FilterFoundry 1.7 for Mac      ???    ???      (Wait for 1.7 release)

* Minor bug: Testcase 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.

* In regards "Actions/Scripting":

  fixaete(): Replace the cTl0...cTl7 descriptions with the names of the slider!	   

* 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?)

* Build filter: Individualize Manifest resource (Attention: htmlentities)

* 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!

* Currently, we use WIN_ENV and MAC_ENV to decide which Endianess we use. However, if we want to support

  Linux (with GIMP?), then we should use other compiler defines.

  Check, what is necessary to support Linux?

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

Design/UI Tweaks

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* 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 space for expressions, like in Filter Factory?

* Standalone filter: Map labels should be centered between two sliders, like in Filter Factory

* Sliders are extremely tiny!

* simplealert() is only "appmodal" and has no hWnd. Due to this, the window is not blinking when

  the user tries to click on a parent window. (Is this a Windows bug?)

* When a standalone filter is built, maybe the user should get a notification that it was successful.

  Something like a simplealert(), but with "information" as message type, not "error"

* Support BigDocument

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".

* The language/country code in VarFileInfo must be a code that exists in StringFileInfo.

* 64 Bit Windows builds

* XP Manifests (+ activation contexts)