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. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.