Heh. That green is acctually the xosd library's default. It's supposed to resemble the green volume/balance bars on a TV screen. ;) Anyways, about --enable-pthread, I could try it, as an exercise, but seeing as I'd like to distribute this library, I would rather not force people to recompile ruby to use it. :) So, if there's any possible way of getting pthread to play nicely with the standard ruby distribution, I'd like to try that. On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, ts wrote: > >>>>> "D" == Derek Lewis <lewisd / f00f.net> writes: > > D> Hmm, pthread, I see. Is there some way I can make them work together > D> nicely? Even when I never call wait_until_no_display, ruby still > D> doesn't exit properly. > > Like I've said try with the CVS version of ruby and compile ruby with > --enable-pthread > > It worked for me : I've stopped the program (after a long time) only > because you use very weird colour (green or yellow ???) for the > message :-((( > > > Guy Decoux > Derek Lewis =================================================================== Java Web-Application Developer Email : email / lewisd.com Cellular : 604.312.2846 Website : http://www.lewisd.com "If you've got a 5000-line JSP page that has "all in one" support for three input forms and four follow-up screens, all controlled by "if" statements in scriptlets, well ... please don't show it to me :-). Its almost dinner time, and I don't want to lose my appetite :-)." - Craig R. McClanahan