It works...however - I have a question.

Closing out the program usually isn't done with the GEM window and this is what I'm after - or something more flexible than gemkeyboard as a quit method.

Closing using the terminal running the patch creates problems with the GEM window and then I have to force-quit it. (I don't want to see the terminal window anyway).

The files are attached. The script will need to adjusted though. (This was done in OSX).

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/noguipatch.pd

the script..

**** is there any object that reports the status of the gem window?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/script.sh

***solution***

every gemhead outputs a "gem_state" of 0 or 1 as the window opens and closes

now if I click out the GEM window, the gemhead value 0 can tell the patch to quit!

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/gem_state_0_1.pd