my top three pie-in-the-sky ideas that will probably never be implemented (but we can HOPE!!)

-client-side GUI applets, especially in stations; ie, add a script file to the applets/ folder to get a "Browse the VO forums" tab in stations.. but I'm sure someone here can think of an even better use

-render-to-texture pullout drawers on the in-flight interface, to implement things like this:
http://www.vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/3/13485#169851
(hmm, I think LeberMac gets credit on this one, now that I think of it)

-or, my NUMBER ONE most desired feature, a CLI-based scripting language, akin to BASH, that could expose 90+% of the game commands and also access local files, and ... (*at this point, thurisaz starts muttering to himself excitedly while bouncing off walls*)

Nah thurisaz, you get credit. Or maybe RelayeR.

But drawers would be kickass. I wonder if that will come about in some future UI update? Actually, the drawers could just be repositoties for iconic buttons, which you could attact any script to. Like radio presets.

How about a scripting language akin to Lua, which is what we actually use to write the interface?

We do want to expose the UI Lua, but it's a problem of making sure we sandbox everything sufficiently to limit cheating and exploiting. That amount of security auditing has not taken place yet.

the only issue, inc, is that I don't know lua yet :C

...by the time everything's exposed though, who knows? :D :D

EDIT:: PS, still holding out of the applet idea :@

Don't worry thurisaz, as soon as the API is exposed I'll write a Ruby encapsulation. All I need is for the devs to make a way to open a unix named pipe from inside Vendetta and I'm golden. :-)

Yay Roguelazer!