> one of my biggest gripes in BeOS is in certain preferences panels > (such as > Menu and Scrollbar) where a change doesn't take place until every > single > window is closed and then reopened. Hopefully there is a better way: > fixing > every window on the fly so that you can easily see the effect of your > changes > and not losing any information. You don't have to close every window; every newly opened window will adopt the new preferences. Until BeOS doesn't come with a proper layout engine, there is no way to do it. The Scrollbar could immediately change though, since it doesn't change its size. Adios... Axel.