jarl van katwijk wrote: > > Yep, A. But.. > > GMS has the ability to wrap non textmode applications. It's done by having a > specialisted plug-in for an application you want to embed. And it has the > ability to let graphical applications dock into a gms window. I never brought > this to attension I think, but it's already fully functional. I'll write a > plugin 'around' the PL, do one for BL->BL communication, one for > data-encryption, etc, etc. > I can disable appications wrapping in Piper-mode to keep everybody happy :) If it isn't needed, perhaps it should be disabled......but maybe we'll find a use for it later. I'm happy with your code, either way, Jarl ;-) > > But, Jarl will argue that GMS can do more than just talk to Overflow. Do we > > NEED the BL to talk to a node other than Overflow??? > > To another instance of a BL, to\from the localhost to determine the system load > to name a few. ....but not anything that would be represented as a node in the UI, right? Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | BIOINFORMATICS.ORG | | The Open Lab | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+