Hi there,
today I am writing to admit that there will not be any "new" version of feffer.
The reason for this is quite simple that I have discovered "ft2gui" by Herwig Bauernfeind (quite some time ago).
The short story is all about avoiding to reinvent the wheel and create unneeded "flavors" of the same thing.
Herwig's program is
- much more mature
- a damn lot prettier
- more sophisticated in general
than feffer would perhaps ever be.

Also, Herwig has extensive documentation and help files with it, it can install the "better" Freetype library if required to do so and - talking about instaling- comes as a WPI package.
In case you don't know it -
I urge you to check it out: http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/os2.html(it's one of the first mentioned programs on his page - the link will give a ftp-like directory view for download)
What's this all about? Quite simple:I am officially requesting the bounty to be given to Herwig! Up yours!
We mailed a couple of times in the past and he is aware of the bounty here but didn't dare to apply for it since he thinks that his program is not 100% ready (I would say he's right, it's "only" 99,5% ready...

). Enough kidding - he deserves it. And I am sure that if Herwig gets the bounty, he will continue to improve the program.
Some folks may complain "but feffer can do this... and that... which Herwigs program can't".
Sure? The only thing here that comes to my mind is feffers ability to also add a program from the list of running processes instead of only browsing for it. Also, when enabling ft2 support for a program, feffer cross-checks the process list to see if that program is currently active (and displays a warning). But that's it AFAIK.
( @Herwig: If you read this (hi!) I think sputils.dll als contains the required calls for the process list stuff...
)And as I said - I am sure Herwig would incorporate requests if they make sense.
My "silent" hope is that Herwig may consider releasing ft2gui "to the public", e.g. as a netlabs project. This way, I could chip in with support and bugfixes in case Herwig is too busy with other things. I really would like to participate in improving ft2gui for it#s the "perfect mach" for the task given.
But now I need your support folks:It's not my right to take this decision on my own. I know that the following people are involved at least:
- The OS/2 user group Sweden sponsored this bounty
- Robert (Henschel, Warp5?) created a nifty DLL (even if we didn't use it, he also had his share here!) which is still available to the public at hobbes (it's a "spin-off deliverable" from this bounty if you want to call it that way)
- Gregory L. (gregg) Marx came up with the initial idea ("years ago!"
) - cris (don't recall the real name) was one of the first users / testers
- Andy (abwillis) also was one of the first users / testers
All of you guys - are you happy with considering to give the bounty to Herwig?
If yes (we can make a poll...) I would get in contact with the Sponsors (os2ug Sweden) to officially request the bounty to be paid to Herwig.
I want to see at least ONE bounty getting closed again.

Cheers,
Thomas