2007/10/4, Rob Pierry <rpierry+ruby / gmail.com>: > I want to have a pane in my GUI that works like irb. Basically embed it > into a windows app. I'm starting a process in the background for irb > and I want to pass input to it and read output from it. It's > interactive, it's just indirectly interactive so irb doesn't print the > prompt and dies immediately on error instead of printing the message and > staying alive. Rob, you could look at fxri (http://rubyforge.org/projects/fxri) how they do it. It's a part of the one-click-installer. Regards, Pit