Locians, Attached is the latest screenshot of the workspace. Notice the new 'desktop' look and feel. Recall that I used to have boxes surrounding the icon and text. Although this screenshot doesn't show it, I will have the flowchart-style boxes be part of the icon and not be shapes drawn by the canvas. This desktop L&F led me to an interesting solution to a problem I have been trying to deal with. (This doesn't appear on the screenshot.) You may recall that early screenshots showed a 'toolbox' in a windowpane adjacent to the workspace. The toolbox contained optional loci TO BE PLACED on the workspace. But I soon realized we would have had a problem organizing the toolbox loci for ease of selection. I then thought of using some sort of a menu or list to select loci from. However, I'm not very fond of long lists and cascading menus. My most recent idea is to split the toolbox up and put the numerous loci into several other loci. Yes, make loci that contain other loci. So, as the GUI has been functioning, you would double-click on one of these 'container loci' and a 'windowlet' would drop down with a (short) list of loci contained therein. The container loci would appear when starting the workspace, akin to folders and drives on a Mac desktop. The cute part is, you can connect a container to the end of a workflow diagram and have it automatically store the resulting data. A snapshot of the hardly-functional workspace can be found in the usual place: http://bioinformatics.org/loci/download/snapshots/ PLEASE GIVE ME SOME FEEDBACK! :-) Jeff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: loci-screenshot-19990901.gif Type: image/gif Size: 14281 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/pipet-devel/attachments/19990902/37b67ff2/loci-screenshot-19990901.gif