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TODO file for NCL Composer

Copyright (C) 2011-2017 PUC-Rio/Laboratorio Telemidia

TODO file for nclcomposer. This is a long-term view on features that can be implemented in nclcomposer. For a bug tracking and short-term features, please see the github issues.

NCL Composer Core

  • New features:

    • Generalize NCLStructure for all kinds of languages.
    • ToolGUI integration API.
    • Transaction support (plug-in could emit N messages as a single transaction).
    • Separate each plug-in as a different process.

  • Optimizations and clean up

  • Tests:

    • A tool for testing plug-in API: . Performance tests. . Memory leaks (valgrind) . Security?? . Integration with other plug-ins?

  • Documentation:

    • Add a section in the manual on how to develop plug-ins.
    • Points to be mentioned: . Key handling (pass to the father).

NCL Composer GUI

  • New features:
    • Some defaults: . Structural, Textual and Layout default perspectives.
    • Message to add new buttons to title bar of composer dock.
    • Keybinding to save new perspective.
    • Keybinding to open "choose perpective menu".
    • Allow to choose MDI or Dock enviroment.
      • Include save the current plugins session inside the project.
    • Check for updates (on going).
    • Plugin repository.
    • Install new Plugins.
    • Run features: . Local Run . Remote Run . Check md5sum for local and remote files and send it again only if they are differents.

NCL Composer Plug-ins

General

  • New features:

    • Try to keep the element/attribute order in the core.
    • Refactory the API to have Plugin/View instead of Plugin/Factory.
    • Script to automatically create the Plugin and Factory classes.
    • Copy and paste among plugins.
    • Undo/Redo
      • Should it be a new plugin?

  • Optimizations and cleanup:

    • All views should inherent from a common class (Composer View?!)

  • Known bugs:

Debug Console

  • New features:

    • Add a window that describe in more details the message from core.

  • Optimizations and cleanup:

  • Known bugs:

Textual View

  • New features:

    • Contextual code suggestion: . Sugestion of default attribute values. (ok) . Sugestion of references. (ok) . Suggestion of references based on scope.
    • Code format(Ctrl+Shift+F). (This is done when the text is synchronized with core).
    • Split the Textual View Window; thus, allowing to see different parts of the text in the same moment (this should be simple).
    • Suggestion of code corrections.
    • Hyperlinks navigation.
    • Preview of media objects, connectors, etc.
    • Preferences Widget: . Default font size. . Font family. . Font colors. . Whitespace visibility.
    • Incremental synchronization with composer core. . xml simple diff based on elements id (ok). . diffx algorithm.

  • Optimizations and cleanup:

    • Code refactoring: . Rename NCLTextEditor to NCLTextView ?! . Rename NCLTreeWidget to NCLTreeView ?! . Improve attribute navigation performance.

  • Known bugs:

Outline View

  • New features:

    • Update from model.

  • Optimizations and cleanup:

  • Known bugs:

Properties View

  • New features:

    • Specific controls for each type of attribute.
    • Suggestion of attribute values.

  • Optimization and cleanup:

  • Known bugs:

Layout View

  • New features:

    • Plugin preferences.
    • Support regions specified in pixels.
    • Add color to regions (based on media type).
    • Draw region base id.

  • Optimization and cleanup:

  • Known bugs:

Structural View

  • New features:

    • Add hide/show system (as in layout plugin).
    • Display link option based on core document.
    • Add full preview for easy navigation.
    • Prevent addition of more than one body item.

  • Optimization and cleanup:

  • Known bugs:

Validation Plug-in

  • New features:

    • Message to ask for Validator re-send all the error messages.

  • Optimization and cleanup:

  • Known bugs:

New Plug-ins

  • Global Actions.
  • Lua Scripting plugin.
  • Storeboard plugin.
  • Temporal view plugin.
  • Add support for authoring multi-device apps.
  • A plugin to handle CPR project: . Two subview: . Project . Files . Some actions: . Add media . Add file . etc.

//TODO: License