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Currently we do not have one of these, but I'll list some possible things and their priorities (for the wxWidgets version).

High: Wad downloading, possibly using a heavily modified version of getwad or be rebuilt from scratch.
Low: Multi-language (Launcher supports UNICODE, but the codeblocks project doesn't have it switched on, the reason is that the client and server don't support it.... yet)

Status:

• + Runs on multiple platforms - Need testers for Mac,
  Linux and any other OS

Key:
* - Implemented
+ - Partially Implemented
X - Not Done

Keep this updated!

Multi-language support should be shit easy to implement with a little code and some config files. The only problem would be to find English-to-foreign language translators. (Which, again, may be easy to fulfill.)

Well, other than Russian and Chinese, I think most languages can be covered by standard Greek alphabet fonts(minus the accents).
Anyway, I can do English -> French translations.

some filter (In the GIMP/PS definition of 'filter') could probably be applied to the text as it is rendered to make it look doomy.

True-type is probably the way to go if you want to have scalable text where it is not too small at uber-high-res, and yet not too huge when scaling is enabled.  It could be used for the score-board as well. :)

I don't necessarily mean *the actual ttf format,* as there are patent issues (does anyone care?), however equal technology should suffice.

Hi developers.

I am new but I am interested in contributing to this great project. Back in the days of ZDaemon 1.06 I developed a Linux launcher based on GTK that supported threaded server queries. It did a good job and was able to query very fast. I became slightly disgruntled with that project when the ZDaemon source was close, not ported to Linux, and the launcher protocol was closed. I would enjoy working on the threaded queries in the wx launcher. Most of my experience with threads has been in the use of pthreads. I would be able to develop a pthread based query rather quickly. I also have some experience in developing threads in Windows using both the pthread library as well as the Windows API for threads (though I develop mostly on *nix platforms.) I realize that requiring the pthread library could be a hassle for the Windows developers so I am wondering if there have been any thoughts on this subject. I have experience in developing multi-platform applications and I have previously developed applications that used pthreads when compiled on *nix OS's while using the Windows API when compiled under Windows (VC++6, mingw, cygwin.) Is this direction that is desired?

EDIT: After looking around on the board and seeing who the posters are I think most of you should recognize me. In particular... hey Russell, deathz0r, slayer! :)

Interesting. The wxwidgets thread API looks to be very similar to the pthreads API. It looks like it is also a portable implementation (it would compile in Windows using the already required wx library.) I will play with wxwidgets and their MT API. I should have a good handle on it rather quickly. I will then dive into the launcher code and see what I can cook up. Thanks for the info Russell... I will make sure to pop into the IRC channel sometime soon.