MiscKit In Progress List

This page contains a list of projects that are currently being worked upon and who is doing the work. If there is a specific feature you'd want to see implemented in conjunction with a particular project, get in touch with the contact and make the suggestion. The appearance of an item here does not guarantee that the item will ever be finished or ever appear in the MiscKit, but increases the likelihood of this happening!

The purpose of this list is to help keep people from duplicating work that has already been, or is being, done. To make it more effective, if you are working on a project you plan to donate to the MiscKit, you should contact Don Yacktman or use our handy "in progress" list submission form to have information about your project added to this list. If necessary, you can modify and update information as well.

Many of these partially completed projects can be found in the Temp directory of the latest MiscKit distribution, and, as they become useable, will migrate into the proper areas of the MiscKit distribution. Anything in the Temp directory should be considered untested and unreliable.

• Mail message, news posting, NeXTMail message, and MIME mail message classes. (Don Yacktman)
• Subclasses of MiscFile for things like directories, pipes, and so on. todd@avocado.supernet.ab.ca (R. Todd Thomas)
• MiscEmacsText--combining features from various PD versions of the object including the one on the MiscShell palette and some of the stuff in the Temp area of the MiscKit. This is a lower priority, so may take a while to make it to kit-readiness... tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
• Generalized document handling structure... There is a sub-mailing list for this topic. If it interests you and you'd like to participate in coming up with a solution to the issues discussed, contact don@misckit.com for more information. The traffic could be higher and more focused here than in the general MiscKit developer's list and NeXTMail is allowed, so be aware of this before signing up.
• Merge MOKit with the MiscKit... don@misckit.com (Don Yacktman)
• Many-but-at-least-one selection matrix... don@misckit.com
• Generic Preferences management system... don@misckit.com
• Create a streamlined, "barebones" String... don@misckit.com
• Document size palette... sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
• Enhance ClockView, probably adding alarms, docs... sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
• Formatted Text Field... da0g+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Apfelbaum)
• ColorWells for the various Misc*Color objects, to go on MiscColorWells palette... don@misckit.com
• MiscFTPConnection object... tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (Georg Tuparev)
• MiscSelectionMatrix and other Matrix based fun stuff including MiscMatrix enhancements... tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (Georg Tuparev)
• Extensions to the normal DO system that would allow us to work with special DO-URLs and connect to any object that is registrated with some known connection. Eg. your app has one entry point but PDO://localhost/AppDO/Preferences would always return the apps preferences manager since he registrated with his apps main connection... tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
• What are you working on? Let's get it listed in here. E-mail don@misckit.com to get a listing.