Ok, poll closed - and the winners are...
By far the most votes for:
Simple way of creating nice GUIs with "contemporary" controls
15 of 16 voters (36.6%)
Second best (or most "wished for") is:
Easy way of WPS integration/control
5 of 16 voters (12.2%)
And the third place is shared among:
A way to do pretty graphics printing
Extensions that allow multimedia control (graphics, sound, gaming, video,...)
with 4 of 16 voters (9.8%) each
Now, what does it tell us?
First: Heck! Only 16 voters? Come on! ;-)
Second: We definitely need some kind of contemporary GUI builder. Either a fully integrated development environment (a la eclipse, VB, whatever) and/or an active, supported wrapper dll for Qt/WxWidgets. :-)
Third: We need more DLLs with focus on "contemporary usage" like graphics printing, multimedia and an easy interface to the WPS... may someone please wrap the API into a DLL for REXX? :-) However I'm curious to see what people mean in detail when talking about the "WPS integration" for rexx. There is the WPS wizard which already provides a rexx interface... what's wrong with it? Something missing? (Note: That was just a usual question - I did not use it so far!)
For the graphics printing: That really sucks.
I know that e.g. in Windows, even VB4 can use the API to create nice docs without much efforts. All it takes is to set up the page(s) by using calls... then you'll have sort of a device context to the printer (but far less complex) and can use simple commands like "printer.print 'my text'", draw lines and circles, get/set the printing psoition, calculate text widhts and heights reliably and make use of all fonts and attributes of them.
Heck - why is there no such DLL or extension for rexx? It could be so simple. Just provide a basic interface and accept basic commands from rexx via calls - all the rest could be done "internally" like management of the device context etc.
Hm. I'm thinking about setting up a bounty for that...
Cheers
Thomas