OK, not only am I a newbie, but I'm not a programmer. My programming skils date back to the 1970's (the last programming class I took was Carter was president) and used punch cards. I've picked-up things here and there, but there are a lot of concepts I just don't understand. Anyway, I've written a program that will interact with a canned MRP system to enter, retrieve, and maniplate part numbers, manufacturing run times, etc... I now would like to make a GUI for it so that my other Engine