Richard, thanks...couldn't have said it better..but I will add a footnote...
David, another point to understand is the recompilation of a complete stack from text files, is a very difficult, if not impossible task to undertake. I should know. I worked with David Johnson for over a year on a sharing toolkit (RevShare) which allowed users to update in realtime each others projects over the internet. It was a complex issue and one where I concluded it could not be done solely via text data. In particular, IIRC, the following properties couldn't be trusted to always convert exactly: "id" "visited" "layer" "armed" "htmlText" Perhaps there were more. But creating a perfect copy of a control on one stack from a text string from another stack was difficult. I had an object checksum function, and I had to remove the above properties from it as I could not depend on accurate control management without. Not to mention all of the images, movies, etc..which would need to be managed as well. All in all, I doubt one will find a better 'container' for managing such stuff than the stack itself. Furthermore, if open source was such a grand concept for the Rev community as a whole, why haven't we seen more of it? My personal opinion, is like many of my plugins, and other free Rev stuff, they really only need a single person to code it. Many moons ago, Richard, Jacque and myself tried to create a 'team approach' to creating a new property editor-- I believe we ended up each rolling our own. That said, the MetaCard project, I suppose could be included as a successful open source project, but it was pretty much well on it's way BEFORE being open sourced. -Chipp _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution