as you can see from the volume of my emails today, i'm getting back into heavy development of realtime. would the quixote distributors consider incorporating the two ui widgets from dulcinea into quixote? furthermore, would you remove the dependency on mxDateTime and just use the native python modules? the reason for the second request is that currently quixote is very simple to run on any platform. installing mxDateTime requires compiling c, which is a step up for the instal complexity. the additional functions in mxDateTime don't seem worth this additional install complexity. (but then again, i probably don't know all the advantages ... the ones I saw were that you could use really small dates and really large dates.) a reasonable approach is to try and import mxDateTime and if it fails to fall back to the native python modules. i'll probably put up a patch in savanah.non-gnu.org/projects/realtime cvs this afternoon. regards, -- Mark Bucciarelli, www.hubcapconsulting.com He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson