I am trying to write an external that uses glut.  But I have hit a stumbling block. I am not able to use glutMainLoop without entering into some king of cpu sucking vortex that halts all Pd functions.  I know this is a problem with the way Pd/tkl handles events.  Has anyone figure out a simple way around this?  I tried to look at the Gem source code but there is too much going on in there for me to get a simple solution.  Is there a straight forward solution out there?

Thanks,

Alain