That won't probably work quite right. Since the caller will probably be Curses, or GTK or something, control needs to be with the UI nearly all the time.

If you ever got stuck in a blocking getline or something, the UI would be very irritating. Anyway, I had considered that. But if you want to release a module that other people are likely to use... then you have to do the hard work for them. :)

I just asked about this here, because I wanted to make sure what I was doing was ... a good way to do it.