Doubt about menufactory

I have this item of menu factory array('/_File/_Connect', '<control>C', 'conectar', 1, ''), This is inside a function main_window() and calls a function that connects do a client, and out puts the text from fsockopen on a $textarea. The problem is that $textarea is created on main_window and called on conectar(). I tryied declaring $textarea global on both functions, but it didn't worked. Is there a way to pass $textarea as argument on the item factory array? Or I am doing something wrong to global not work? :) -- Iuri Fiedoruk Santa Maria, RS, Brazil