[Fxruby-users] New to list - general questions...

[Hugh S. S. E. E. <hg...@dm...>]

I have just joined this list, and have a number of rather general
questions, but I hope to be able to contribute useful info myself
soon.

What I'm interested in doing is writing a GUI builder for FXRuby
which will do most of the management of the new(), create() and
other initialisation calls, so that code gets written in the right
order for things to work.   But this is a way down the road yet, as
I need to understand more to be able to write this correcly.

My questions that I have now are:

The archive for the list seems to have only 2 messages in it.  Is
that correct?

There seems to be no FAQ for the list, and no FXRuby FAQ on the
fxruby site.  Since I'm trying to learn this stuff I'm happy to
create one.  Most of the FAQ tools I've heard of seem to be
perlisms, so the obvious question is: What ruby ones exist?

And onto FXRuby itself:  Most of the API calls wrap C++ pretty
closely, so that they are often FXThingy.method(*args).  I can
explore (and will do) the FOX docs some more, but are there mappings
within the ruby so that Ruby "types" like integer get converted to
FXinteger, or does one have to create the objects explicitly?  I
don't think I'd be able to infer this from looking at C++ docs.


        Thank you,
        Hugh