latin, this is relatively easy to do without much of a script at all. Are you wanting these state changes to occur when something is clicked, or based on a time frame, or perhaps some other criteria? Basically, you can setup 4 states in your DX object and then use a persistent variable to store the current state and have a timer with a function that checks the current state and changes to the next if necessary. If you provide a few more details as to what you are wanting to do and how you would like it to work it should be fairly easy to explain how to do it.

OK, I found a site that returns the info: http://www.cavu.com/sunset.html  So I guess it shouldn't be too hard to make.  If I have time I might give it a shot some time if nobody else voluteers.

thanks guys, so can any of you do the script?

I found this info on another site :

Civil Twilight Start: 05:08
Sunrise:              05:41

Sunset:               20:19
Civil Twilight End:   20:52

I'm using weather.com for my script but it doesn't have the details this other site has. But weather.com makes it much easier though because of its XML feed.  Anyway, it seems sunrise starts about 30 BEFORE and sunset ends about 30 minutes after. I'll script it like that.

thanks!