FYI, from the GNOME home page: New GNOME Canvas Information The Canvas is a very exciting feature of GNOME. It allows very high level manipulation of objects. The programmer need not worry about handling the redrawing of the canvas during expose events, the Canvas does all this for you. The end result is a wonderful API that allows extremely rapid application development. The latest version of the Canvas in gnome-libs has the new antialiased rendering engine incorperated in it. See the GNOME Canvas Development page for screenshots and more information. (Warning: graphics intensive) http://www.gnome.org/devel/canvas/ Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro Phone: 617-552-3905 Boston College mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu Department of Chemistry http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Chem/Bizzaro/ --