Thankyou all, well I actually didn't have a choice on being gone so long, I 
am in the National Guard, had been on delayed enlistment and that special 
date where i got to go to basic training and advanced individual training 
(75H, personal service specialist.. sounds cool eh?) came around the corner 
so I lost 4 months of my civilian life style. But I am back and doing lots of 
goodies and special codings. I got some emails requesting my Foxchange FB 
Libraries so I re-uploaded them at 
ftp://ftp.foxchange.com/anonymous/FcFBLibs.hqx and promise to never remove em 
again. As for youthful genius, Foxchange Shareware has plenty of those, I am 
at my buddies's house, Sean, who is a 3D FutureBASIC programer who is 17, 
also we have about 10 programmers under the age of 20, I am the old geezer 
here. Here is some information that i got for the appearance manager, I 
myself love the Mac OS interface, it is great, I actually wish all Mac 
programs (commercial that is) would follow it and use it. However for Mac 
Games it just doesn't fit in as well, so like usual I am doing my own thing, 
but now writing CDEF's and WDEF's like in the past, but a 100% custom 
interface that can't be affected by the System, so when that is finished I 
will post it onto the my library. I have a couple Plug-Ins I will try for 
FB^3, one will CALL SETORIG or something to hide the icons on the project 
manager and hopefully allow you to open files with a single click, and the 
other to slow down scrolling, I never use scroll bars, I select text up or 
down to scroll and it will slow that down (I hope), more like my own personal 
plug ins. If anyone needs help with making computer games, just give me a 
ring!

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>May I just say that i'm really glad to see you back Matt.
>You've been away a while... and you were missed.
>
>Welcome home.
>
>:-j
>(this gnome used to be a jonathan)

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>I second this. We need some youthful genius around here, particularly 
>since Mars has moved on. Matthew, why don't you start working on this 
>Appearance Manager stuff!
>:-}
>(ken gnomeheiser)