MuWS

Multi user Window System

Selection mechanism based on objects in rooms, inventory, each other.

Everything has a container and a contents list.
Each container has an set of methods, that are links to neighboring
containers, or actions. 

Each user is in a room. Rooms contain objects, and the users who are
in it. Users contain their inventory. Objects are like selections.
They can be picked up, carried around, and dropped. They can be passed
around and traded, duplicated and destroyed by the users.

Between the user and the 

A user can 

carry around mechanisms:
tape recorder, cellular phone, tricorder, zap gun, target

These objects contained in the user can be protocol engines that
handle messages that the user object does not know how to deal with.  
As with event distribution over the canvas hierchy, their "shape" can
define what subset of the events hitting their parent they have a
chance at. 

So an object should be able to express interest in events sent to its
container. pre/post child interests. It should be able to schedule the
execution the way DDL does, in the order that it gives various objects
(room, direct object, etc) a chance at the verb. Exclusive interests
can be used instead of the ddl-style exit.