components has been coded) it is rather a pain to get that GUI code running on platforms/jvms other than using Sun's newest J2SE, version 1.4.1 or 1.4.2. Thus, while the promised platform indepency of Java is claimed, practice seems to far off this goal. -- Volker Jahns, volker at thalreit.de, http://thalreit.de, DG7PM