I stand corrected. My threads priority is must be massively lower than wxruby. "looping" does print but not even close to every five seconds as in my code example. Evan Light IMs (all): sleight42 Skype-In: (703) 531-8484 evan.tiggerpalace.com _______________________________________________ wxruby-users mailing list wxruby-users@rubyforge.org rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wxruby-users