diff --git a/examples/buttons/Makefile b/examples/buttons/Makefile
index 74b7728..7de8165 100644
--- a/examples/buttons/Makefile
+++ b/examples/buttons/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,10 @@
 #
 
 run: build
-	./buttons --gui andlabs
+	./buttons
+
+debug:
+	./buttons --gui andlabs --gui-debug --log-debug
 
 build-release:
 	go get -v -u -x .
diff --git a/examples/buttons/log.go b/examples/buttons/log.go
deleted file mode 100644
index f8279af..0000000
--- a/examples/buttons/log.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,98 +0,0 @@
-// This creates a simple hello world window
-package main
-
-import 	(
-	"fmt"
-	arg "github.com/alexflint/go-arg"
-	"go.wit.com/gui"
-	log "go.wit.com/gui/log"
-)
-
-
-var args struct {
-	Foo string
-	Bar bool
-	User string `arg:"env:USER"`
-	Demo bool `help:"run a demo"`
-	gui.GuiArgs
-	log.LogArgs
-}
-
-/*
-var f1 *os.File
-var f2 *os.File
-var err error
-*/
-
-/* from gocron:
-
-// DefaultLogger is used by Cron if none is specified.
-var DefaultLogger Logger = PrintfLogger(log.New(os.Stdout, "cron: ", log.LstdFlags))
-
-// DiscardLogger can be used by callers to discard all log messages.
-var DiscardLogger Logger = PrintfLogger(log.New(ioutil.Discard, "", 0))
-
-// Logger is the interface used in this package for logging, so that any backend
-// can be plugged in. It is a subset of the github.com/go-logr/logr interface.
-type Logger interface {
-	// Info logs routine messages about cron's operation.
-	Info(msg string, keysAndValues ...interface{})
-	// Error logs an error condition.
-	Error(err error, msg string, keysAndValues ...interface{})
-}
-
-*/
-
-func init() {
-	arg.MustParse(&args)
-	fmt.Println(args.Foo, args.Bar, args.User)
-
-	if (args.Gui != "") {
-		gui.GuiArg.Gui = args.Gui
-	}
-	log.Log(true, "INIT() args.GuiArg.Gui =", gui.GuiArg.Gui)
-
-/*
-	// from: https://github.com/robfig/cron/blob/master/logger.go
-	log.Println()
-	log.Println("STDOUT is now at /tmp/guilogfile")
-	log.Println("STDOUT is now at /tmp/guilogfile")
-	log.Println()
-	f1, err = os.OpenFile(outfile, os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREATE | os.O_APPEND, 0666)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Fatalf("error opening file: %v", err)
-	}
-	// hmm. is there a trick here or must this be in main()
-	// defer f.Close()
-
-	log.SetOutput(f1)
-	log.Println("This is a test log entry")
-*/
-}
-
-/*
-func captureSTDOUT() {
-	f2, _ = os.OpenFile("/tmp/my.log", os.O_APPEND|os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY, 0664)
-	multiWriter := io.MultiWriter(os.Stderr, f2)
-	rd, wr, err := os.Pipe()
-	if err != nil {
-	    os.Exit(1)
-	}
-
-	// overwrite os.Stdout
-	os.Stderr = wr
-
-	go func() {
-	    scanner := bufio.NewScanner(rd)
-	    for scanner.Scan() {
-	        stdoutLine := scanner.Text()
-	        multiWriter.Write([]byte(stdoutLine + "\n"))
-	    }
-	}()
-
-	fmt.Println("foobar")
-
-	// hacky sleep to ensure the go routine can write before program exits
-	time.Sleep(time.Second)
-}
-*/
diff --git a/examples/buttons/main.go b/examples/buttons/main.go
index e76aaac..87841a7 100644
--- a/examples/buttons/main.go
+++ b/examples/buttons/main.go
@@ -2,20 +2,23 @@
 package main
 
 import 	(
-	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"strconv"
 	"go.wit.com/gui"
+	arg "github.com/alexflint/go-arg"
 )
 
 var title string = "Demo Plugin Window"
-var outfile string = "/tmp/guilogfile"
 var myGui *gui.Node
 
 var buttonCounter int = 5
 var gridW int = 5
 var gridH int = 3
 
+func init() {
+	arg.MustParse()
+}
+
 func main() {
 	// This will turn on all debugging
 	// gui.SetDebug(true)
@@ -35,35 +38,21 @@ func buttonWindow() {
 	log.Println("buttonWindow() START")
 
 	w = myGui.NewWindow(title).SetText("Nueva Ventana de Botones")
-	t = w.NewTab("buttonTab is this thing")
-	g = t.NewGroup("buttonGroup")
-	g1 := t.NewGroup("buttonGroup 2")
-	more = g1.NewGroup("more")
+	t = w.NewTab("buttonTab is this thing").Pad()
+	g = t.NewGroup("buttonGroup").Pad()
+	g1 := t.NewGroup("buttonGroup 2").Pad()
+	more = g1.NewGroup("more").Pad()
 	g1.NewButton("hello2", func () {
 		log.Println("world2")
 	})
-	more2 = g1.NewGrid("gridnuts", gridW, gridH)
+	more2 = g1.NewGrid("gridnuts", gridW, gridH).Pad()
 
 	more2.NewLabel("more2")
 
-	g.NewButton("this app is useful for plugin debuggin", func () {
-	})
-	g.NewLabel("STDOUT is set to: " + outfile)
-
 	g.NewButton("hello", func () {
 		log.Println("world")
 	})
 
-	g.NewButton("Load 'gocui'", func () {
-		// this set the xterm and mate-terminal window title. maybe works generally?
-		fmt.Println("\033]0;" + title + "blah \007")
-		myGui.LoadToolkit("gocui")
-	})
-
-	g.NewButton("Load 'andlabs'", func () {
-		myGui.LoadToolkit("andlabs")
-	})
-
 	g.NewButton("NewButton(more)", func () {
 		name := "foobar " + strconv.Itoa(buttonCounter)
 		log.Println("NewButton(more) Adding button", name)
@@ -95,10 +84,6 @@ func buttonWindow() {
 		name := "neat " + strconv.Itoa(buttonCounter)
 		log.Println("NewGroup() Adding button", name)
 		buttonCounter += 1
-		more.NewGroup(name)
-	})
-
-	g.NewButton("gui.DebugWindow()", func () {
-		gui.DebugWindow()
+		more.NewGroup(name).Pad()
 	})
 }