skatebiker: Thanks for the short feedback. I am not experiencing the delay that you mention -- I would say that sometimes it might be as long as 5 seconds, but not 30 seconds (for me), so that is unusual. We need to wait for more people to respond with their experiences... I can say, though, that it is not possible to make it any faster, without taking away functionality, or without using something other than Python. My hope is that people will not be tempted to do a lot of 'mode changing', but will typically just leave it in one of their 'favorite' modes most of the time