Morton Goldberg wrote:

> Since you propose an alternative solution, why did you not try it out
> for yourself, rather than just throwing the question out on the
> mailing list? You would have had the answer much quicker hat way.
> Ruby is a very easy language to experiment with. That is one of its
> greatest strengths. You should take advantage of it -- it is the best
> way to learn.

because i have no clue how that can be done.  all the examples in a book 
i found and on the web all do the MainLoop.

that is in the realm of Ruby / Tk and maybe someone knows a couple of 
lines that can do it, or some code segment on a page.
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