In Greenfoot, the World is the object bench. Think of it this way: The object bench has now a two-dimensional layout, and the objects have different representations (images), but otherwise it is (roughly) the same: You create objects interactively, and they are placed on the bench/in the world. You can then interact with the objects (call methods, inspect). There is no current plan to incorporate the code pad. Michael

Michael, Thanks for the reply. I played around with it over the holidays, and came to a similar conclusion. I will "develop & test" as actors and then remove the extends to get the desired result. Thanks for a great set of products, texts and learning tools. Mr B