The editor thread has wandered off into on-the-fly translation. I don't think that this is important at this stage of developmennt and would like to postpone this topic. Meanwhile, the editor thread should bet back to editing. What would be needed to split off editing frrom DocumentManager? How soon can the settings dialog be reactivated? I'm not tellinng Francois what to do. This is an open source projject. People are mostly unpaid and do what they perceive they can do and what they are interested in. I would prefer to handle the Main, BBIni and Subcommand classes myself, and also the Java bindings. Redirecting stderr to a file turns out to be a bit complicated. I'm thinking of doing it in the bindings, so people who call the methods don't have to worry about it. John B. -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities