I'd like to put some UI elements inside a sidebar-type container but it's not obvious to me which one best fits what I want: - fixed position - a set width relative to mudlet window. eg user can't resize the sidebar but it does smoothly resize when the main window does - outside of and to the right ...

Ahhh maybe I did miss that. I noticed it about spawn but that might have been later. That little feature is so strange and frankly a little alarming, I'm not even sure how I feel about depending on it. Plus I might like to distribute this code later and shelling out like that is a whole extra set of...

Whoa that's extremely cool! I was considering this option for a parser but ran into trouble with spawn and send. and the function can be replaced to parse information coming back. Could you give an example of that? I never could get send() to work. And I could only get a response from spawn() if the...