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>> utilities, applications, games, and even my own programming languages. So, in answer to your question "have you ever added a programming interface to any program?" the answer is simply, "yes, I have." I do know what it entails. << great. then you also know that the final feature list of a lot of programs is not always (in fact rarely) determined by the programmers. product managers, marketing managers, advertisers and researchers, distributors and analysts all bring to bear what the market needs in a product. oh yeah, and then there's the users also. <ggg> point is simple… you and i (or others here) may know what it takes to write a program to do something… but bringing a product to the market is a whole different skill set than programming/coding. it not only has to work, it has to sell. -dave