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+# VP6 backlog
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+- **[Controls]** Label access keys: `&` in a Label's Caption underlines the letter and Alt+letter focuses the next control in the tab order, as in VB (today the `&` is just removed), plus `UseMnemonic`
+- **[Controls]** Label `BackStyle` (Transparent / Opaque)
+- **[Controls]** File system controls: DriveListBox, DirListBox, FileListBox
+- **[Controls]** RichTextBox: text with colors, bold and italic, and appending formatted text (self-hosting: the code editor and the colored Immediate output)
+- **[Controls]** TextBox/RichTextBox editing API: line/column ↔ position, caret screen position, scroll position, undo/redo, a `SelChange` event, and an option for Tab to insert a tab instead of moving focus (self-hosting: completion, combos following the cursor, go-to-line, indentation)
+- **[Controls]** A code-editor capable text control: syntax-highlighting hook, line-number gutter, current-line highlight, hidden (folded) lines and read-only ranges (self-hosting: the code window and its protected designer region)
+- **[Controls]** Grid control with editable cells and per-cell editors (like MSFlexGrid) (self-hosting: the Properties window and the Options color table)
+- **[Controls]** Dockable tool windows (docking, floating, closing and restoring panels) (self-hosting: Toolbox, Project Explorer, Properties and Immediate panels)
+- **[Controls]** Shape
+- **[Controls]** UserControl: designing your own reusable controls in VP6 (VB's UserControl), with their own properties and events, placed from the Toolbox
+- **[Language and runtime]** `PopupMenu` for right-click context menus (self-hosting: designer, Project Explorer and Immediate window context menus)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Default form instances: using `Form2.Show()` without creating an instance first
+- **[Language and runtime]** `Form_QueryUnload` with `UnloadMode` (closed by the user, by code, or because the program is ending), before `Form_Unload`
+- **[Language and runtime]** `Validate` event and `CausesValidation`: checking a control's value before the focus leaves it
+- **[Language and runtime]** `Form.ActiveControl` and `Screen.ActiveControl` (the control with the focus)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Moving a control to another container at run time (assigning `Container`, as VB's `Set Command1.Container = Frame1`)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Drag and drop: `DragMode`, `Drag`, `DragDrop` / `DragOver` events, and OLE drag and drop of text and files from other programs
+- **[Language and runtime]** `SendKeys`: sending keystrokes to the active form
+- **[Language and runtime]** Form `Picture`: a background picture on the form
+- **[Controls]** Common Dialog control (open, save, color, font, print dialogs)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Form `Icon` property: a form's own window icon, instead of the program's (the project's `icon`) (self-hosting: window icons of the IDE's MDI windows)
+- **[Controls]** `MousePointer` / `MouseIcon` properties for cursor shapes such as resize arrows and crosshair, and `Screen.MousePointer` (e.g. an hourglass during long work) (self-hosting: the designer's handles and drawing tool)
+- **[Language and runtime]** `SaveSetting` / `GetSetting` / `DeleteSetting` for per-user settings (self-hosting: recent projects, themes, window layout)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Graphics methods: `Line`, `Circle`, `PSet` and `Print` drawing on forms and PictureBoxes. `PictureBox.Cls()` exists but only clears the picture.
+- **[Language and runtime]** `Paint` event and `AutoRedraw` on forms and PictureBoxes, so programs can draw custom surfaces (self-hosting: the designer's window frame, grid dots and selection handles, the code editor's gutter)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Text measurement: `TextWidth` / `TextHeight` on forms and PictureBoxes (self-hosting: gutter width, eliding captions)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Picture objects: `LoadPicture`, drawing into an image in memory, using it as a `Picture`/icon, and saving it (`SavePicture`); today `Picture` is only a file path (self-hosting: the IDE's drawn icons and the Kitchen Sink image)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Clipboard pictures and formats: `Clipboard.GetData` / `SetData` / `GetFormat` (today text only)
+- **[Language and runtime]** `Printer` object and `Printers` collection: printing text and graphics
+- **[Language and runtime]** More of VB's `App` object: `Major` / `Minor` / `Revision`, `PrevInstance`, `ProductName`, and the command line (VB's `Command()`)
+- **[IDE]** Find and Replace in all files of the project (today: the current code window only)
+- **[IDE]** Properties window Categorized view (VB's Alphabetic / Categorized tabs)
+- **[IDE]** Object Browser: the classes, members, events and constants of `vp6` and of the project's forms and modules
+- **[IDE]** Save Project As (copying a project to a new folder)
+- **[IDE]** Renaming and deleting files from the Project Explorer (today Remove only takes a file out of the project)
+- **[IDE]** Locking controls in the designer (Format > Lock Controls)
+- **[IDE - Debugging]** breakpoints, stepping, watches
+- **[IDE - Debugging]** evaluating expressions in the Immediate window
+- **[IDE - Debugging]** editing code while the program is paused
+- **[Language and runtime]** Font enumeration: `Screen.Fonts` / `Screen.FontCount` (self-hosting: the Options font list, the FontName editor)
+- **[Language and runtime]** An event when the OS switches between light and dark, and a way to ask which one is active (self-hosting: repainting custom-drawn surfaces and icons)
+- **[Language and runtime]** MDI forms (MDI parent and child forms)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Borderless popup forms that don't take the focus from the form that opened them (self-hosting: the code completion list)
+- **[Language and runtime]** Starting a program asynchronously with output, exit and error events and a way to write to its stdin (a Process object beyond VB's `Shell`) (self-hosting: F5 and the Immediate window)
+- **[Self-hosting]** Write the VP6 IDE in VP6 itself; blocked by the self-hosting items above and by existing backlog items: graphics methods, MDI forms, Common Dialog
+- **[Language and runtime]** Twips and VB's `ScaleMode`; VP6 uses pixels only
+- **[Controls]** Data-bound controls
+- **[IDE]** Designer window frames with rounded bottom corners on macOS
+- **[Appearance]** Per-window title bar color: a forced Light or Dark form still gets a title bar in the OS appearance, since Qt can't set it per window on macOS
+- **[Appearance]** Picking up a macOS light/dark change live for System forms in the designer while the IDE is forced to Light or Dark (they update on the next redraw)
+- **[Appearance]** Programs started from the IDE with the "IDE" color scheme follow the IDE's appearance at launch only, not later IDE theme changes
+- **[IDE - Term]** Add a terminal emultator panel (default position same as immediate panel) to allow a shell to be opened in the IDE.
+- **[AI]** Add Claude integration to allow use of Claude straight from the IDE