Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: catching exceptions in event handlers

[Emmanuel T. <emm...@wa...>]

Hello,


> At 15:40 +0100 23 Jul 2003, Emmanuel Touzery <emm...@wa...>
wrote:
> > C:\programs\glossary\test>ruby test.rb
> > test.rb:38:in `onCmdOpen': undefined local variable or method `pouf' for
> > #<Gloss
> > aryMainWindow:0x52d3c78> (NameError)
> >         from test.rb:61:in `run'
> >         from test.rb:61
>
> NameError exceptions don't get caught by a bare rescue since that's
> equivalent to "rescue StandardError".  If you truly want to catch all
> exceptions you need to use "rescue Exception".

thank you!
this was my problem!

now how to display a dialog box at this stage, as Lyle remarked..  is there
a nicer solution than to create a brand new FXApp object?

sorry to ask so much, but i don't see examples to base myself from on
this...

emmanuel