Hi, > The idea of Guis is that the application communicate with Guis: it > sends requests (for making GUI widgets etc...) in a scripting language > (Python or Ruby) and recieves arbitrary textual replies or events > (explicitly sent by scripts). An initial script defines the relevant > procedures to be used in further requests (sent by the > application). very nice idea, does it also work to have multiple apps sending requests to one Guis? > [the idea of a programmable widget server is not new, the old NeWS > system from Sun did it about ten years ago] just curious, how much programmable was NeWS? Did it have some builtin interpreter language or something like this? > Can a built-in module be extended by scripts? I would think it works exactly like extending builtin classes, never tried though. Richard