A major milestone has been reached with the completion of the Graphical User Interface portion of the XID software.  In the current version a user can view the various states of any characteristic (for example, leaf shapes) and can then make their selection by clicking on the appropriate term in the menu.  In the new Graphical User Interface version, the user can actually click on the attribute image to make their selection.  The conversion to this version has included the addition of hundreds of new terminology illustrations.  These new illustrations have caused the 1,000 Weeds database to become too large for CD ROM, so all future releases will be on interactive DVD.