Ah! I have been learning the Model, View, Controller design in my stupid Java lectures at Uni, but didn't know it was the same approach in Perl... are there premade Observer and Observable modules which can be <java speak>extended and implemented</java speak> in Perl, if there is, howcome i havn't heard much of them b4?

simon.proctor++, you sound like a lecturer ;-) thanks for your help, it makes a lot of sence now!! Thanks.

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