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John, a solution you might consider (if you are looking for fairly easy menus, gadgets, etc. objects in a BASIC language) is both PowerWindows (v 2.5) and InnovaTools 1, both published by Innovatronics. PowerWindows 2.5 lets you define screens, windows, menus, gadgets, etc in its program (even capturing other running screens, windows, etc!) and then it will generate source code for you. I have not used it with any BASIC yet (I have with C), but the package says it supports: True BASIC, AmigaBASIC/AC Basic Compiler 1.3. It makes this type of object creation much less painful. InnovaTools 1 (I do not have, just reading from the ad) apparently is a simple library for calling gadgets, menus, etc…. Re file requestors, you might want to check out any of several good file requestor libraries available (on CS); I'd highly recommend Khalid Alderosi's FRLib, which is very easy to call, and very flexible. good luck –jp–