the only idea i have at the moment the only idea i have is to make look for older versions of devel_0_38 and try to figure out the date when devel_0_38 started with this behaviour ... i know, this is a lot of work, but you would do the devel_ branch a big favor ... use cvs update -D date to check out a certain date (see man cvs for details) and start a binary search during the last few monthes ...
ouch! this sounds quite heavy i might give a try but do you think i should recompile flext and/or externals each time i make a cvs update?
i know, thomas started to use the idle callbacks about a month ago ... i doubt you'll have to recompile flext for any other change than that ... if so, you'd see some undefined symbols on the console ...
still, i think, you could also try it with any other non-flext external that doesn't require any of the devel features and thus won't have to be recompiled ...
cheers ... tim