We spend a lot of time tailoring our user interface so that it is _j-u-s-t s-o_ for the next customer. It would be nice to just hand them the components and say "Here! Build your own @#$% user interface." The same is true about reports, but more so. What I'd really like is a generic (or abstract) GUI layout tool -- free-to-me-but-not-to-you (Berkeley class license)-- toolkit that would let me take a generic widget shape, attach it to a predefined class and then bundle it all together in a canned VB-esque task delimited tool that would be proprietary. It would be a layout and design meta-tool to package code into a canned GUI kit. Windows and widgets in a box -- no programming needed. (Actually, an MS licensed development tool would go over even better in this shop than portable freeware.) ------------------------------------------------------ Trent Shipley Work: (602) 522-7502 mailto:tshipley@symbio-tech.com http://www.symbio-tech.com