The last 3 month, I have posted a lot of very OS/2 specific programming questions in the programmers section. Meanwhile, the project of a new OS/2 commandline frontend made a lot of progress. At the moment, I am fixing only minor bugs (false cursorposition in editor...) and the main job is done. A lot of things work better than I originally expected.
What is already done:
- Adaption of the ME editor for the new purpose
- Base cmd.exe functionality (especially cursor up/down command history)
- Base stdin/out functionality
- handling VIO input/output
- User settings notebook, load and save settings
- (soon) saving and restoring output
What I do not implement in the first version 0.5, but for the 1.0 version:
- Command completion with flyover dropdown field (as an user option)
- WPS integration (e.g. doubleclick to a filename from "dir" output opens the file via WPS default connection)
- navigation/history window with a tree, sorted by: Level 1 current directory, Level 2 entered command to jump back into the editor and to restore old commands
But this stuff is much more easier to implement than the stuff which is already done.
I need some help from you for specific jobs:
- I am not an english native speaker (I am german). I need a real native speaker which reads and corrects my english docu. The english docu draft for version 0.5 will be finished in perhaps 1 week and will be extended later.
- If the program should be localized besides english and german, I need help from native speakers. A few text parts (from the WDsibyl environment) are already in nederlands, italian and russian. But first, I have to divide all language specific data from the normal code. Localization makes only sense when the 1.0 version will be nearly finished (in perhaps 2-3 month).
After receiving the corrected english docu, I will publish the first version 0.5. I do not want to publish a version with bugs which are already known and at the moment, I myself find continously minor bugs in daily use and can fix them without problems.
