I just wonder will we gonna have some kind of "form design" tool with new wxSmith? It's always nice to drag&drop "widgets" around a form and play with it :-).
It currently support drag&drop even in old wxSmith (only one thing not using it is adding items into current form, but this will change soon).
I am using wxSmith because it's embedded in CB. 
Hope to have more progress with more function integrated or an open arch which could add component easily. Many people could contribute to enlarge the component base, just like wiki.
Yop, one of main goals of new framework is to provide easy support for user-defined widgets and other stuff (including new GUIs).
I would say that GUI developer is priority number one. At first most of all people are watching at first on to a GUI developer and UML plugins. As second on to other stuff. I do like Code::Blocks, because I am working with multi platform scientific problems.
But if Byo will not get help and strong support in his "heroes quest" - probably a lot of people will change the environment. I think in Code::Blocks development Byo's wxSmith project should have priority number one.
The VisualWx looks like cool stuff and have promising future. If that will be cross-platform free software - Code::Blocks will die :cry:.
As an idea - that will be grate to have a UML plugin in Code::Blocks :idea:.
Ok, first think - I don't think that C::B will day because even now many people use it without RAD designer - just because it has many other features developers like. And it looks like interest in C::B is growing (f.ex. new backend for Reactos' rbuild creating C::B projects was added recently).
But in fact I understand you may be little bit worried about future of wxSmith. Last few months i was working on code which already should be done (Yop, we're learning all the time, me too, I had to learn many things about design stage of a project
and some lack of experience resulted in few really big bugs in project level )
Another thing is that I haven't seen cyberkoa for few months and I'm developing wxSmith alone (if I remember correctly, almost all 25k lines of code in new wxSmith i've written by myself).
But here are some good news: just in few days new wxSmith will have all major features of old wxSmith so switch to new one should be done soon. After that I'll start working on new features. And in short-term plan I'll try to write some docs / improove code to support user-defined widgets and hope that other people will help me increasing wxSmith's functionality
Practise show one clear thing today: giving ability to add custom stuff for anybody and support from community is a big treasure for projects like wxSmith.
Regards
BYO
