On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Rick McGuire<object.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know we sort of promised that the next release would be devoted to > implementing the replacement for the orxscript support, but the more I > look at doing this, the less I feel motivated to spend the time trying > to fix this. I frankly am a bit exhausted by the 4.0 release, and I > would like to spend a release working on enhancements that I will find > fun and somewhat satisfying. That so mirrors the way I'm feeling. <grin> Especially the last half of the paragraph. I can always go in to work and work on stuff I'm told to do that is not much fun. > So, the new features I want to implement > are: > > 1) Full-featured XML support, including a DOM and XPath support. > 2) NetRexx block-style exception model > 3) Finish my regex replacement classes that I'd once started. > 4) Other small enhancements that might make the items above easier to > implement or perform more efficiently. > 5) Allow subcommand handlers to be defined within library package files. > > I know Mark is working on some enhancements to oodialog and on > converting more of oodialog to use the new APIs. This is all good > stuff. > > Additional items I'd like to see in this next release if we can find > the resources to complete them: > > 1) A java-like File class. > 2) Moritz's Enumerations from the incubator > 3) The in-memory stream classes from the incubator > > Also, the block-style exception model changes could really use a > thorough regression test suite for the existing condition handling to > ensure I don't break existing behavior with the new support. > > Feel free to chime in with additional items you feel like working on. Those all sound good. What I would like to do with ooDialog is basically take full advantage of the new API: replace all the usages of handles with .Pointer and re-architect the Windows message handling so that the programmer can reply directly to the event messages, add in some of the missing Windows controls. Along with fixing the bugs I've opened on things I've noticed that are wrong. -- Mark Miesfeld ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oorexx-devel mailing list Oorexx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oorexx-devel
