Backlog

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Current sprint (actively being worked on as you read this):

• Animated control glitches on phone
• Support saving CanvasBitmap with pixel formats other than 32bppPBGRA to disk
• Need way to load CanvasBitmap and preserve source format (eg float images should be loaded as float rather than converted to unorm int)
• Add a way to retrieve text analysis results
• Add Arabic text to custom text layout sample
• Create a CanvasFontSet from a URI (github #211)
• TryFindFontFace only works with fonts created from the same collection on Win8.1
• exportsample should put RuntimeDirective.rd.xml only into the projects that reference it
• exportsample should not put UAP-specific TargetPlatformVersion style properties into non-UAP projects
• CanvasVirtualBitmap should have a get_Device property
• Project LookupTable3DEffect
• Project ColorManagementEffect
• Project HistogramEffect (special case as it doesn't produce a regular image output)
• Validate virtual image source multithreaded rendering design

API completeness:

• Mechanism for detecting if a custom font failed to load or was not valid
• Should be able to GetOrCreate from any ID2D1Effect instance to something that I can set as an effect source or pass to DrawImage
• Do a final scrub over all of D2D and DWrite to make sure we didn't miss any API surface

Controls:

• CanvasAnimatedControl.Size should be synchronized with the update/draw loop
• CanvasAnimatedControl doesn't display the proper clear color in the VS XAML designer
• CanvasVirtualControl doesn't show the correct ClearColor in the designer
• XAML Loaded vs. Unloaded events aren't reliably sequenced

Repay debts:

• Remove workaround for intellisense xml (devdiv:1200085)

Developer conveniences:

• ICanvasImage.GetBounds should have an overload that takes a device and (maybe) a dpi
• Ability to clone a CanvasTextFormat
• Consider adding CanvasStrokeStyle.Hairline (static property to create a hairline stroke style)

Docs & samples:

• Word art sample
• ExampleGallery maybe should use BackRequestedEventArgs (rather than the phone-specific hardware back button)
• Doc describing potential sampling issues when drawing abutting rects?

Performance:

• Do profiling!
• Instrumentation to enable performance investigations (eg d3d debug markers or etw)
• Investigate perf glitch in CustomFont demo
• DrawText in perf demo hits TextLayout::SlowPath in DWrite, triples time spent in DoLayout vs. an equivalent Direct2D app
• Investigate performance glitch when changing Example Gallery custom fonts to draw everything as a single text layout

Text completeness:

• Exposure of IDWriteFontSetBuilder
• Support custom (non-system) font fallbacks
• Expose glyph design metrics (converted to em space)
• Enable font streaming
• Expose font file accessors
• Expose pair kerning options

Boring engineering infrastructure tasks:

• Get consistent about threading/marshaling_behavior metadata on our runtimeclasses
• Verify that our GetResults methods won't return failures that should actually be reported via the completion handler
• Remove checked in PFX files