Please go here: https://github.com/larskanis/fxruby/issues/2 I''ve created that issue in the FXRuby bug tracker, Lars Kanis, then maintainer says: "This is actually a bug in the fox toolkit. If you set the FXText to styled=true, then the memory needed for getStyle is allocated. If not libfox crashes.May you open a bug report on fox-toolkit? I''m a bit busy currently." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/fxruby-users/attachments/20130103/358f0df0/attachment.html>