Working notes

Working notes.........

Todo

Configure correctly for Solaris
Need to add Axel Boldt's patchs for the configuration file for solaris (done )

Bugs

Anchor display
Need to allow a selected anchor to appear on the first line of the body table (done)
New file
Need to set the document address to some null value (done)
Accelerator problems
The bindings in tkW3BindText override some of the accelerator menu bindings (namely the binding for delete text)
No way of specifying IS_INDEX, NEXTID, BASE tags
Need to create an dialog box underneath Edit that can edit these items ( fixed)
Saving is non-standard
Should use "SAVE" and "SAVE AS" menu items instead of "Generate Source" ( done)
Pressing return sometimes does the wrong thing
Need way of protecting changes
Editor should know when changes have been made to the text and should bring up a dialog box to prevent user from accidentally cutting himself (done)
List item creation problems
List item creation does the wrong thing if the cursor is in the wrong place
Backup file
Need to make backup file when saving (like emacs)
List item
The list of anchors on the gif page are missing a few entries
TT type
TT type is broken (fixed)
Need some way of returning value from TCL command
No tkWWWOutputError
Need to write this (fixed)
Cut and paste don't cut and paste tags
Maybe open another text widget for the selection
Bookmarks edit title
Need to include bookmarks edit title
Reload after save changes scrolling view
Reloading the page after the save makes it easy to lose one's place
X resources
Needs to understand X resources
Edit bookmarks title
Need to implement (done)
LINK tag not implementated and kills tkWWW
Need to add dummy link handler
Cannot handle nested character tags
No way of getting Bold italics
Extra space in front of header tags
There often is some extra space in front of the header tags which occurs if you add a newline between two header tags
RCS
Need to combine tkWWW with RCS revision control
slow typing
typing seems to be somewhat unresponsible, beed to streamline the procedures dealing with typing
P tag after /UL tag
Too much white space
Add ability to edit plaintext
Add ability to edit plaintext
Going into the PRE mode doesn't work
Pressing return gets you out of the mode
No way of adding XMP, BLOCKQUOTE, LISTING tags
These should be added to the paragraph directory
Plaintext output
tkWWW should realize if/when it is editing a non-HTML file and output text accordingly

File Selection box comments

Awkward to move up many layers of directories
Should have some action menu that makes it easy to do something like this

Enhancements

Inline and form tags
Have to wait until tk 4.0 comes out
SGML TCL parser
Rewrite SGML parser so that a lot of the information exists outside of the parser itself?
Edit/read mode
Need to separate edit mode and read mode
RCS mode
Make it work with RCS?
joe@mit.edu