diff --git a/.github/FUNDING.yml b/.github/FUNDING.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 0922ce7f00..0000000000
--- a/.github/FUNDING.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-# These are supported funding model platforms
-
-patreon: hexworks
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index f36a359b76..edd396641c 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -2,18 +2,21 @@
 
 ## Must have
 
+- [ ] Implement Rexpaint loading
+- [ ] Implement animation loading
 - [ ] Add remaining tilesets to app config and test them
 - [ ] Retrofit code examples  
 - [ ] Implement texture transform modifiers (crossed-out, underline, border)
 - [ ] Refactor the Markov modifier
-- [ ] Fix the text input component
+- [ ] Fix the buggy components
+  - [ ] radio box won't do the `o` when selected without focus (first click)
+  - [ ] `TextBox` will do an interaction recoloring when `<Space>` is pressed
+  - [ ] `TextBox` cursor is drawn outside the box
+  - [ ] if `CheckBox` is clicked quickly it won't check
 - [ ] Use all code examples to check for bugs
 
-
 ## Nice to have
 
-- [ ] Implement Rexpaint loading
-- [ ] Implement animation loading
 - [x] Refactor java-sytle builders to kotlin builder dsls
 - [ ] Check the rest of the code for Javaesque patterns and refactor them
 - [ ] Make life easier for Java users
diff --git a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
index 3d0e56b50a..2ab0246496 100644
--- a/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/buildSrc/build.gradle.kts
@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.8.21")
-    implementation("com.soywiz.korlibs.korge.plugins:korge-gradle-plugin:4.0.7")
+    implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:1.9.22")
+    implementation("com.soywiz.korlibs.korge.plugins:korge-gradle-plugin:5.3.0")
 }
diff --git a/gradle.properties b/gradle.properties
index 06180fbee4..f1eda0ee11 100644
--- a/gradle.properties
+++ b/gradle.properties
@@ -1,14 +1,9 @@
 group=org.hexworks.zircon
-version=2022.1.0-RELEASE
+version=2024.0.0-RELEASE
 
 kotlin.mpp.stability.nowarn=true
 kotlin.js.compiler=ir
 
-org.gradle.parallel=true
-org.gradle.daemon=true
-org.gradle.jvmargs=-Xmx3g -XX:MaxPermSize=1g
-org.gradle.configureondemand=true
-
 POM_PACKAGING=jar
 POM_URL=https://github.com/Hexworks/zircon
 POM_SCM_URL=https://github.com/Hexworks/zircon.git
diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.jar
index 249e5832f0..7f93135c49 100644
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diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index 31cca49130..3fa8f862f7 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6.1-all.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.4-bin.zip
+networkTimeout=10000
+validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
diff --git a/gradlew b/gradlew
index a69d9cb6c2..1aa94a4269 100755
--- a/gradlew
+++ b/gradlew
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 #       Darwin, MinGW, and NonStop.
 #
 #   (3) This script is generated from the Groovy template
-#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
+#       https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/HEAD/subprojects/plugins/src/main/resources/org/gradle/api/internal/plugins/unixStartScript.txt
 #       within the Gradle project.
 #
 #       You can find Gradle at https://github.com/gradle/gradle/.
@@ -80,13 +80,11 @@ do
     esac
 done
 
-APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" && pwd -P ) || exit
-
-APP_NAME="Gradle"
+# This is normally unused
+# shellcheck disable=SC2034
 APP_BASE_NAME=${0##*/}
-
-# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
-DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+# Discard cd standard output in case $CDPATH is set (https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/25036)
+APP_HOME=$( cd "${APP_HOME:-./}" > /dev/null && pwd -P ) || exit
 
 # Use the maximum available, or set MAX_FD != -1 to use that value.
 MAX_FD=maximum
@@ -133,22 +131,29 @@ location of your Java installation."
     fi
 else
     JAVACMD=java
-    which java >/dev/null 2>&1 || die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
+    if ! command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+        die "ERROR: JAVA_HOME is not set and no 'java' command could be found in your PATH.
 
 Please set the JAVA_HOME variable in your environment to match the
 location of your Java installation."
+    fi
 fi
 
 # Increase the maximum file descriptors if we can.
 if ! "$cygwin" && ! "$darwin" && ! "$nonstop" ; then
     case $MAX_FD in #(
       max*)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -H is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         MAX_FD=$( ulimit -H -n ) ||
             warn "Could not query maximum file descriptor limit"
     esac
     case $MAX_FD in  #(
       '' | soft) :;; #(
       *)
+        # In POSIX sh, ulimit -n is undefined. That's why the result is checked to see if it worked.
+        # shellcheck disable=SC2039,SC3045
         ulimit -n "$MAX_FD" ||
             warn "Could not set maximum file descriptor limit to $MAX_FD"
     esac
@@ -193,11 +198,15 @@ if "$cygwin" || "$msys" ; then
     done
 fi
 
-# Collect all arguments for the java command;
-#   * $DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, $JAVA_OPTS, and $GRADLE_OPTS can contain fragments of
-#     shell script including quotes and variable substitutions, so put them in
-#     double quotes to make sure that they get re-expanded; and
-#   * put everything else in single quotes, so that it's not re-expanded.
+
+# Add default JVM options here. You can also use JAVA_OPTS and GRADLE_OPTS to pass JVM options to this script.
+DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS='"-Xmx64m" "-Xms64m"'
+
+# Collect all arguments for the java command:
+#   * DEFAULT_JVM_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, JAVA_OPTS, and optsEnvironmentVar are not allowed to contain shell fragments,
+#     and any embedded shellness will be escaped.
+#   * For example: A user cannot expect ${Hostname} to be expanded, as it is an environment variable and will be
+#     treated as '${Hostname}' itself on the command line.
 
 set -- \
         "-Dorg.gradle.appname=$APP_BASE_NAME" \
diff --git a/gradlew.bat b/gradlew.bat
index f127cfd49d..93e3f59f13 100644
--- a/gradlew.bat
+++ b/gradlew.bat
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ if "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" setlocal
 
 set DIRNAME=%~dp0
 if "%DIRNAME%"=="" set DIRNAME=.
+@rem This is normally unused
 set APP_BASE_NAME=%~n0
 set APP_HOME=%DIRNAME%
 
diff --git a/zircon.core/build.gradle.kts b/zircon.core/build.gradle.kts
index b5b1b3a747..e2b10e3100 100644
--- a/zircon.core/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/zircon.core/build.gradle.kts
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ kotlin {
         withJava()
         compilations.all {
             kotlinOptions {
-                apiVersion = "1.5"
-                languageVersion = "1.5"
-                jvmTarget = "11"
+                apiVersion = "1.9"
+                languageVersion = "1.9"
+                jvmTarget = "15"
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt
index 6b39610786..6cdcb57322 100644
--- a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt
+++ b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/kotlin/main.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+import korlibs.io.file.std.openAsZip
 import org.hexworks.zircon.api.builder.application.appConfig
 import org.hexworks.zircon.api.builder.application.withSize
 import org.hexworks.zircon.api.createApplication
+import org.hexworks.zircon.api.resource.Resource
+import org.hexworks.zircon.api.resource.ResourceType
+import org.hexworks.zircon.api.resource.loadResource
 import org.hexworks.zircon.internal.resource.BuiltInCP437TilesetResource
 
 suspend fun main() {
@@ -8,23 +12,16 @@ suspend fun main() {
     val gridCols = 1920 / tileSize
     val gridRows = 1080 / tileSize
 
-//    loadResource(Resource.create("rex_files/xptest.xp", ResourceType.PROJECT)).openAsZip()
-//
-//    println("ok")
+    loadResource(Resource.create("rex_files/xptest.zip", ResourceType.PROJECT))
 
-//    Applications.createApplication(appConfig {
-//        size = Size.create(gridCols, gridRows)
+
+//    createApplication(appConfig {
+//        withSize {
+//            width = gridCols
+//            height = gridRows
+//        }
 //        defaultTileset = BuiltInCP437TilesetResource.valueOf("REX_PAINT_${tileSize}X${tileSize}")
 //        debugMode = true
-//    }).rex().start()
-
-    createApplication(appConfig {
-        withSize {
-            width = gridCols
-            height = gridRows
-        }
-        defaultTileset = BuiltInCP437TilesetResource.valueOf("REX_PAINT_${tileSize}X${tileSize}")
-        debugMode = true
-    }).components().start()
+//    }).components().start()
 
 }
\ No newline at end of file
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index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/BOT.zip b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/BOT.zip
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deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
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deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/cp437_table.zip b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/cp437_table.zip
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deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
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deleted file mode 100644
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diff --git a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/zircon_logo.zip b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/zircon_logo.zip
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index 0000000000..461e55a7ec
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diff --git a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/zircon_logo_nosubtitle_rex.xp b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/zircon_logo_nosubtitle_rex.xp
deleted file mode 100644
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diff --git a/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/zircon_logo_nosubtitle_rex.zip b/zircon.examples/src/commonMain/resources/rex_files/zircon_logo_nosubtitle_rex.zip
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