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1. User interface
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- use GNU's long_getopt
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- allow to pass input and output files via command line
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- add options for various not-yet-implemented features (Unicode, Win32
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format, non-native/native alignment and endianness, compact output
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format)
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2. Input format
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- improve input file processing
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Currently, certain pre- and postprocessing is required. winerc
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should accept an arbitrary resource script and generate the C file
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with as little intermediate files as possible. I'm not sure how to
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handle the symbols from windows.h. There are certain options:
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* winerc predefines the symbols via the cpp command line
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* windows.h is #include'd, and the resulting C code is dropped
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(Should winerc do C parsing here?)
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* a stripped-down version of windows.h is included,
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generated by "grep '^#' windows.h"
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* windows.h #ifdef's every C code with _RC_INVOKED
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(commercial solution)
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- complete input syntax
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The goal here is to support every existing resource file which is
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accepted by another resource compiler, not to put as much fancy
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features into the compiler as possible. Every correct resource file
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which generates a parse error can be reported as a bug, a problem
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analysis and a fix would be appreciated.
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3. Output file format
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- add missing resources (fonts, versioninfo, stringtables,rcdata)
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- check style handling
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The semantics of control and dialog styles is somewhat poorly
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documented. For example, I couldn't find a reference that every
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control has the WS_VISIBLE and WS_CHILD style, even if they are
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not specified. What other styles are considered default?
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The existance of default styles implies support for disabling these,
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unlike any other proper programming language,
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NOT WS_VISIBLE | WS_GROUP
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does *not* mean ~WS_VISIBLE, but WS_CHILD|WS_GROUP (in C semantics).
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What other strange semantics are there?
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- check cursor and icon handling
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At the moment, the .CUR and .ICO files are copied byte-by-byte into
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the C array. This is probably wrong, as there are things like cursor
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and icon groups. In which way should they be present in a Wine image?
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Should we have arrays for every cursor, as well as the cursor group?
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Is one cursor per group enough, in the context of X? If so, do we
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still need the group?
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- create a more compact output file
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The current format is well-suited for debugging, as one can easily
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match it with a resource' hex dump. A more compact format would use
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strings instead of integer lists. A clever algorithm for embedding
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values <32 and >127 is required.
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- platform independence
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Currently, the lay-out of the resources is just as it is in Win3.1 -
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packed structures, little endian. Although this format can be used
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on any architecture, aligned data and native endianness would speed-up
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the resource manipulation and simplify the code. OTOH, this would
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break applications that rely on the lay-out. All this is of interest
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for the library version only.
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- Win32 support
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4. Programming Style
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- memory management
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No memory is freed in the current implementation.
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