"J.W. Bizzaro" wrote: > > On the UI side again, the > arrangement of nodes, where each node has its own UI component (e.g., a > button) can be used to determine the layout of a COMBINED UI. Generally, > sibling relationships mean the components will be adjacent to one another. > And, parent-child relationships mean the components will be nested. Most RAD > GUI builders show you a hierarchy of widgets drawn as a tree. Since nodes in > Piper are already in a tree, we take the same approach. Hmmm. It does seem that AVS has this feature. I'm not sure if you can create a peer-to-peer network with AVS though. There are many similarities, but if you took apart both systems, you'd find many differences. Another is price. Piper is GPL while AVS is very expensive and proprietary. I think Piper will be simpler to use too :-) Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. --