two tracebacks with tkim: When sending a message to an offline person on words: Exception in Tkinter callback Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\dev\python20\lib\lib-tk\Tkinter.py", line 1287, in __call__ return apply(self.func, args) TypeError: not enough arguments; expected 2, got 1 and when connecting to an non-existing server: Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\dev\twisted\twisted\spread\pb.py", line 999, in connectionFailed errback('connection failed') File "c:\dev\twisted\twisted\words\ui\gateways\words.py", line 43, in connect onFailed if self.connected: AttributeError: 'makeConnection' instance has no attribute 'connected' besides that; there's a lil' problem with closing windows as I mentioned earlier. With my 3 seconds experience with tk I guess you add the wrong master to the "child"-windows. // phed