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[Fxruby-users] [ANN] What's New in FOX 1.2

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

All,

The first post-FOX-1.2 draft of the "What's New in FOX 1.2" document is 
now available for your viewing pleasure here:

	http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/WhatsNew.html

A PDF of the same is available here:

	http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/WhatsNew.pdf

As noted in the introduction, please let me know about any errors of 
fact or omission. If you have questions about how to use new features 
in FOX 1.2, how to port your application to FOX 1.2, and so forth, do 
not send those questions to me; please send those questions to the 
regular FOX users' mailing list.

Enjoy,

Lyle

Re: [Fxruby-users] [ANN] What's New in FOX 1.2

[rich l. <fx...@gm...>]

> 
> As noted in the introduction, please let me know about any errors of
> fact or omission.

I'm wondering if there's a typo in the section:

http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/ar01s03s56.html

The bullet:

Added the getMinColumnWidth() and getMinColumnHeight() member
functions for the FXTable class. These utility functions return the
width of the "narrowest" cell in a particular column or the height of
the "shortest" cell in a row, and can be useful for setting up the
initial table display.

Should that be getMinColumnWidth() and getMinRowHeight()?

-Rich

Re: [Fxruby-users] [ANN] What's New in FOX 1.2

[rich l. <fx...@gm...>]

On a related note:

In the section:

http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/ar01s03s62.html

What does 'foreign window' translate into? A different window in FOX,
or any other window in the OS?

"The new attach() member function allows a foreign window to be
swallowed into the FOX widget tree."

Sorry if this question is simple...

-Rich

[Fxruby-users] Re: How to use FXWindow::attach()? (was: What's New in FOX 1.2)

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

On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:48 AM, rich lyman wrote:

> In the section:
>
> http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/ar01s03s62.html
>
> What does 'foreign window' translate into? A different window in FOX,
> or any other window in the OS?
>
> "The new attach() member function allows a foreign window to be
> swallowed into the FOX widget tree."
>
> Sorry if this question is simple...

No, not a simple question. In fact, I probably glossed over that bit in 
the documentation because it's a little unclear to me what attach() is 
useful for.

The idea is that you can embed a "foreign" window, i.e. some other 
application's window, into your FOX application. I think the way this 
works (at least in C++) is that you'd first create a generic FOX 
window,

	FXWindow *win = new FXWindow(...);

and then call its attach() member function, passing in a X-Window 
handle (XID) or a Win32 window handle (HWND). Obviously, very 
platform-specific stuff, and I'm curious about how well this works in 
practice. You certainly wouldn't be able to generate FOX messages from 
events occurring in those foreign windows (I think?)

I'm Cc'ing this to the foxgui-users list, because I'd like to know if 
anyone is using this feature successfully. ;)

Re: [Fxruby-users] [ANN] What's New in FOX 1.2

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

On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:42 AM, rich lyman wrote:

> Should that be getMinColumnWidth() and getMinRowHeight()?

Yes, thanks for catching that one! Should be fixed momentarily...

Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: How to use FXWindow::attach()? (was: What's New in FOX 1.2)

[Rich <ri...@li...>]

Holy wow!! :-)

If that works... *get's on rollercoaster and acts like a little kid*
WHEEEEEE!!!

-Rich
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lyle Johnson" <ly...@kn...>
To: "rich lyman" <fx...@gm...>
Cc: <fxr...@li...>; "FOX Users"
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Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 5:48 AM
Subject: [Fxruby-users] Re: How to use FXWindow::attach()? (was: What's New
in FOX 1.2)


>
> On Jun 25, 2004, at 11:48 AM, rich lyman wrote:
>
> > In the section:
> >
> > http://www.knology.net/~lyle/fox/1.2/ar01s03s62.html
> >
> > What does 'foreign window' translate into? A different window in FOX,
> > or any other window in the OS?
> >
> > "The new attach() member function allows a foreign window to be
> > swallowed into the FOX widget tree."
> >
> > Sorry if this question is simple...
>
> No, not a simple question. In fact, I probably glossed over that bit in
> the documentation because it's a little unclear to me what attach() is
> useful for.
>
> The idea is that you can embed a "foreign" window, i.e. some other
> application's window, into your FOX application. I think the way this
> works (at least in C++) is that you'd first create a generic FOX
> window,
>
> FXWindow *win = new FXWindow(...);
>
> and then call its attach() member function, passing in a X-Window
> handle (XID) or a Win32 window handle (HWND). Obviously, very
> platform-specific stuff, and I'm curious about how well this works in
> practice. You certainly wouldn't be able to generate FOX messages from
> events occurring in those foreign windows (I think?)
>
> I'm Cc'ing this to the foxgui-users list, because I'd like to know if
> anyone is using this feature successfully. ;)
>
>
>
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