John A.M. Darnell wrote: > I stumbled across a freeware version of widgets called wxWidgets > which may > be used in Perl and Python. Is this a dependable package, or is it > buggy? I believe it's a good choice if you're doing cross-platform development. Qt may also be worth checking out, though the licensing isn't as liberal (GPL or commercial vs. wx's relaxed LGPL variant). And don't forget Tk, although I have the impression it's not as good on Mac OS as other platforms. OTOH, if you're doing Mac-only development then Cocoa is probably the natural choice. For Perl and Python bridges, see PerlObjCBridge/ Camelbones and PyObjC; for Ruby see RubyCocoa. I've used PyObjC a bit and it's very good. HTH has -- http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/ http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org