RE: [Fxruby-users] How to show stuff created at run time (not the easy question)

[Will M. <wi...@co...>]

Lyle Johnson wrote:
> Have not tried running your sample code yet,

Don't bother, I did not include the code that calls this.

> but see what happens if you replace the
> calls to resize() with a call to recalc():
>
>	@inspectordlg.recalc

There it is, that works. That is the function that I was looking for, but
with www.fifthplanet.net down I could not find it. Thank you.


> I see another potential problem with the code,
> which is that every call to ObjectInspector#set
> adds a new FXMatrix widget to the dialog box
> (@inspectordlg). Unless I'm just misreading
> things, I suspect that you'll want to first
> remove the old matrix first, i.e.
>
>		# Out with the old...
>		@propertyFrame.removeChild(@matrix)

Yes, I was fairly sure that I had a problem with that, and no you weren't
misreading things. The ObjectInspector#clear method was intended for just
that purpose, but I had not been able to figure out what to put in it. (that
www.fifthplanet.net down thing again.) removeChild is obviously correct.

Now, does the @propertyFrame.removeChild(@matrix) call also clean up all of
the elements contained in @matrix, or do I also need to clear them out?
Further, how does Ruby's garbage collection play into this? What gets
automatically cleaned up, and what do I need to explicityl clean up?


> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle

Yes it does, and thank you for the timly response.

	--Will