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

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

On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, ly...@kn... wrote:

> Yes. The list was only created the day before yesterday ;)

Oh! Thanks.
>
        [...]
Thanks for the Faq links.
> but you are correct that we don't have a FAQ list dedicated specifically to
> FXRuby. I guess part of the challenge will be figuring out which questions
> are FXRuby-specific and which questions are more in the domain of FOX

Yes, but then metaquestions can go in as well, "where should I look
for questions about ..."

> programming in general. For example, the FAQ about calling create() on
> windows, icons, etc. after the application's already running is a problem
> that any FOX programmer will confront at some point, whether he's using
> FXRuby, FXPy, EiffelFOX or, worst case, C++ ;)

Could one apply the Mediator Pattern to this, and provide direct links
to where people need to go, rather than telling them to poke around
such and such websites?  I think that would be useful provided we
can frame the questions so they are not brittle WRT version changes
in FOX.  I think there may well be FXRubyists who never program FOX
directly w/o ruby, so this would seem to be sensible from this
viewpoint.
>
> > And onto FXRuby itself:  Most of the API calls wrap C++ pretty
        [...]
> > 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.
>
> Yes, for the most part it should be a very obvious mapping from C++ to Ruby.
> If the C++ function expects a signed or unsigned integer type (i.e. FXshort,
> FXushort, FXint or FXuint) the Ruby method probably expects an Integer. If

Thank you.  I think this is something worth adding to a FAQ, since
it is implementation dependent (you *could* have chosen to make
FXushort construction explicit; I'm glad you didn't).
        [...]
> well, such as how arrays of values are passed back and forth. For a good
> summary of the kinds of differences to expect, see this chapter from the
> FXRuby documentation:
>
>     http://www.fxruby.org/doc/differences.html

Thanks, hadn't found that.
>
> Also, your first stop for reference documentation on the Ruby API should be
> the docs found here:
>
>     http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api

Yes, that's a nice job, coming along well.  Thanks.  Can this be
downloaded as a tgz, or zip file for browsing off-line please?

When I tried to run Rdoc on the FXRuby I'd downloaded I didn't get
so much documentation embedded.  If your using different/newer
sources it would be nice to get hold of those so I can send you
patches when I feel able to contribute.  [I'd actually rather not
have write access to cvs, because I'm not confident about using it,
and would hate to trash your CVS tree!]
>
> The problem is that those are still under construction (although I'm getting
> closer!). Use the C++ library's reference documentation as a fallback.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
>

        Thank you.
        Hugh