Some of you may already be aware of the W3C's SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics format. It is an XML for vector graphics. I found out that Raph, of GNOME fame, is working on a GNOME drawing program called Gill: http://www.levien.com/svg/ Check out the SVG file: http://www.levien.com/svg/tiger.svg I'll be looking into this stuff with respect to how we might make Loci's graphical widgets. :-) Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu Boston College Chemistry http://www.uml.edu/Dept/Chem/Bizzaro/ --