>but i haven't gotten the impression that anyone here can code a g.u.i.
for an offline app.  i'd love to be wrong about that, so please please
do correct me, anyone listening out there, if you can indeed do that...

I will readily admit to NOT being the world’s greatest GUI writer, but that is not the problem.  The problem is not having a portable GUI system that I’d be happy to write tools on that work on the variety of machines PG/DP people work on.  If you know of a portable GUI library system that you think is really really good let me know – everything I dig into ends up disappointing me.