Heidi-Ho Locians! Sorry for my delay in posting--I'm now back with my computer (yay!) and can code once again (double yay!). Man, I have a lot to catch up with--but I just wanted to start with letting everyone know about the big changes in loci-file. First, my little directory representation thing is now "complete." You can scope it out the same way as before, by running './filegui.py &'. It can now display filesystem representations as lists and trees, and both have nifty little pixmaps which distinguish files from directories. Second, I'm starting to do more with XML stuff. I guess I'm thinking about getting into the overall XML scripting stuff (part II. o' the TODO list). In preparation for this I went through loci-core quite extensively and made almost an exact copy of it in loci-file. To see this (which hopefully looks and behaves exactly like the most recent loci-core), run './testgui.py' (which is located in the base directory of loci-file). Why did I bother to do this? A couple of reasons: 1. To start messing around I am going to need to start changing some parts of workspace.py in loci-core, so to not interfere with Jeff's work, I decided to just make my own copy. The changes I'm making are small, so it should be easy to integrate them into loci-core, if so desired. 2. Related to number 1, I am kind of using this as a testing platform. So we can try out ideas, see how people like them, and then if they are accepted, integrate them into loci-core. 3. I needed to go through the code anyways to see how it works. I'd be interested to know your thoughts on this type of arrangement. Also, I have already made a change to how loci-core works. I modified workspace.py so instead of loading individual python files like 'container.py' to get initial info about a container, it now calls an XML parser which parses a 'container.xml' file to get the initial info. From Jeff's comments, it looked like this was a change that needed to be made, so I thought I would start with this to get myself going on XML stuff in the workspace. The loci-file directory structure is still quite very unstable but should hopefully get a little more stable within the next couple of days, so if you haven't been making any changes in it, it might be best to just checkout a fresh copy. I'm really interested to hear everyone's comments, so if you have a chance, please check it out. Thanks much! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas/Kwanzaa/Ramadan and a snazzy New Year. Brad