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[Fxruby-users] Re: to get list of messages for widget

[<ly...@kn...>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 04:16:06 -0700 (PDT), Vladislav Guzov
<vl...@ya...> wrote :

> Is it possible to get list of messages for a widget ?

The documentation page for each widget lists the messages that it sends to
its message target. For example, if you look at the docs for FXButton:

    http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXButton.html

you'll see that it sends the SEL_KEYPRESS, SEL_KEYRELEASE,
SEL_LEFTBUTTONPRESS, SEL_LEFTBUTTONRELEASE and SEL_COMMAND messages to its
target.

Hope this helps,

Lyle

[Fxruby-users] Re: to get list of messages for widget

[<ly...@kn...>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:41:32 -0700 (PDT), Vladislav Guzov
<vl...@ya...> wrote :

> I know about documentation but a tool like GUI builder
> is not. Is it possible to get list using method or
> some other way?

No.

Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: to get list of messages for widget

[meinrad r. <mei...@gm...>]

ly...@kn... wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:41:32 -0700 (PDT), Vladislav Guzov
> <vl...@ya...> wrote :
> 
> 
>>I know about documentation but a tool like GUI builder
>>is not. Is it possible to get list using method or
>>some other way?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> 
well, i think there is a (rather complicated) way!
i have thought about this too, because i wrote a gui builder and i think 
i have an idea how to do it.

first you need a list of all messages that exist. that is fairly easy 
with ruby:

messages = Fox.constants.grep /SEL_/ # or something like that

second you need to generate connectors for all messages in your widget 
that you want to test. for instance:

b = Button.new( parent, "text", ... )
messages.each{|const_string|
	const = Object.const_get(const_string)
	b.connect(const) { puts "received message: #{const_string}" }
}

third, test to which messages your widged responded
as far as i know, it is possible to send messages programmatically to a 
custom fox widget of your choice (lyle will correct me if i am wrong.), 
but unfortunately i don't have a piece of code ready here.

if you really managed to do this, i would be very interested in the 
script to use it for my gui builder.


cheers,
- henon

Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: to get list of messages for widget

[Joel V. <vj...@us...>]

ly...@kn... wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 04:16:06 -0700 (PDT), Vladislav Guzov
> <vl...@ya...> wrote :
> 
> 
>>Is it possible to get list of messages for a widget ?
> 
> 
> The documentation page for each widget lists the messages that it sends to
> its message target. For example, if you look at the docs for FXButton:
> 
>     http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXButton.html
> 
> you'll see that it sends the SEL_KEYPRESS, SEL_KEYRELEASE,
> SEL_LEFTBUTTONPRESS, SEL_LEFTBUTTONRELEASE and SEL_COMMAND messages to its
> target.

Something else that may help:

$ irb -r fox
irb(main):001:0> include Fox
=> Object
irb(main):002:0> FXWindow.instance_methods.grep /set/
=> ["setTarget", "setInitial", "setDNDData", "setKey", "setBackColor", 
"setSelector", "setShown", "setUserData", "setEnabled", "setX", "setY", 
"setWidth", "setHeight", "setDragCursor", "setDragRectangle", 
"instance_variable_set", "setLayoutHints", "setFocus", 
"setCursorPosition", "setAccelTable", "setVisual", "setDefault", 
"setDefaultCursor"]

Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: to get list of messages for widget

[Joel V. <vj...@us...>]

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Something else that may help:

Or not... Now I realize that the OP was asking for "messages", not 
"methods".