From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...4050.upc-d.chello.nl>
Date: 2001-11-02T09:26:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24128] Re: ruby/tk

> I have the windows pragmatic progamers version installed.  Ruby 1.6.5,
> cygwin.  Why does a tk program run once then nothing that uses tk will
> work until ruby is closed and restarted or in some cases win 98 is
> restarted?

Well, the Tk thread dies when the Tk part ends. So you need to restart
the thread. I got it restarted by "load tk.rb" and (re)starting an
application (including the Tk thread). I lost quite a bit of memory in
the process, so you don't want to repeat this too often.

Why this is, I don't know.

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