Karl-Max Wagner wrote: > [stuff that Jean-Marc can answer best] > > > It should be open for changes still, since we WANT to interface Piper with > > other programs. That's sort of the whole purpose to Piper ;-) It probably is > > more a moving target than anything, but collaborations with other projects > > will help us to nail it down a bit better. > > Well, I am totally open in that. At the moment I can specify the > interface the way I want. So taking over the piper interface > isn't such a bad idea to begin with. What do you mean by "taking over the piper interface"? "Interface" has a number of meanings to us. [stuff for Jean-Marc again] > If I click on the building block symbols I get some locus etc. > pull down menu. Is it also planned that I can click on the > symbol and then can get a ( configurable ) menu for getting data > of that object resp. getting a ( defineable ) form for entering > properties ? Have you tried double-clicking over a node (blue box)? That drops down a "windowlet" (small window) which contains widgets for changeable parameters. These widgets/parameters can be pre-specified in XML. Cheers. Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro jeff at bioinformatics.org Director, Bioinformatics.org: The Open Lab http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff "All those scientists--they're all alike! They say they're working for us, but what they really want is to rule the world!" -- Angry Villager, Young Frankenstein --