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TODO file for NCL Composer
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Copyright (C) 2011-2015 PUC-Rio/Laboratorio Telemidia

TODO file for nclcomposer
(A complete and updated list of planned features can be found at:
 http://redmine.telemidia.puc-rio.br:8080/redmine/projects/composer3/roadmap)

NCL Composer Core
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  * New features:
    - Search the plug-ins on a relative path (mainly for Windows and MAC OS)
    - Export to NCL.
    - Generalize NCLStructure for all kinds of languages.
    - ToolGUI integration API
    - Transaction support (plug-in should emit N messages ass a single
      transaction)
    - Separate each plug-in as a different process.
    - Import documents.

  * Optimizations and clean up

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

  * Documentation:
    - A manual to develop plug-ins.
    - Points to be mentioned:
      . Key handling (pass to the father).

NCL Composer GUI
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  * New features:
    - Some defaults:
      . Structural, Textual and Layout default perspectives.
    - Message to add new buttons to title bar of composer dock.
    - Message saying that a perspective already exist when trying to save a new
      one with the same name.
    - 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.
    - Internationalisation.
    - Check for updates.
    - Plugin repository.
    - Marking plugins to be loaded.
    - 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
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### General

  - Script to automatically create the Plugin and Factory classes.
  - Copy and paste among plugins.
  - Undo/Redo: How it will work?
    . A new plugin??!

  * New features:
	  - Try to keep attribute order.

  * Optimizations and cleanup:
    - All Composer view 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 is 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:
    - Remove duplicate icons (structural and outline have the same icons
      resources).

  * 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.
    - Rotate regions :D.
    - Draw regions specified in pixels.
    - Add color to regions (based on media type).
    - Draw region base id.
    - Add keybindings to delete, copy, paste, etc.
    - it must ask the user confirmation when the user delete an entity.

  * Optimization and cleanup:
    - Review code organization and naming.

  * Known bugs:
    - When receive a change signal from core, the item doesn't adjust 'width'
      property correctly, overlapping the boundary of their parent item.

### Structural View

  * New features:
    - Draw complex link (with aggregation item).
    - Process signals receive from core.
    - Add hide/show system (as in layout plugin).
    - Review items looklike (based on user experience?).
    - Display link option based on core document.
    - Add full preview for easy navigation.
    - Prevent addition of more than one body item.
    - Link selection.
    - User actions to change anchors of a link.
    - Add keybindings to delete, copy, paste, etc.
    - It must ask the user confirmation when the user delete an entity.
    - zIndex of the selected entity must be the greater one.

  * Optimization and cleanup:
    - Review code organization and naming.

  * Known bugs:

### Validation Plug-in

  * New features:
    - Send message when an error is detected (ok).
    - Double click over a error message. (ok).
    - 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.
  * A plugin to handle CPR project:
    . Two subview:
      . Project
      . Files
    . Some actions:
      . Add media
      . Add file
      . etc.

//TODO: License