Re: [Fxruby-users] Strange Behaviour under Win32 with FXRuby

[Stef T <st...@ch...>]

Lyle wrote:
> I don't *see* anything that looks wrong, but it's hard to tell without 
> having all of the code in hand and thus being able to reproduce the 
> problem(s). If you'd like to send the rest of the code (everything 
> needed to run it), I can take a look. [Probably best to send it off-list.]
> 

Actually, i went back to a tried and tested debugging
technique called 'remarking' :) Basically, an earlier
version was working as expected under Win32, so checked
it out from CVS, compared the differences and one by
one remarked out the bits and re-ran it. 

Not the most scientific approach, granted, but i narrowed
it down to the 4 buttons newly added at the bottom. Here
is one of them:

XButton.new(bot2_hform, "Store", nil, self, 0,
FRAME_RAISED|LAYOUT_FILL_X)

for some reason, i was passing in 'self' instead of 'nil'.
Changing that fixed it all up and now the program is layed
out as desired. 

FXRuby is not my usual widget toolkit (i am a glade/gtk
person by nature) so sorry if this is also causing some
confusion with my code :) (of course, for Win32, gtk is
jst awful, whereas Fox works very well :)



One last teeny tiny probably stupid question, which i know
breaks OO design but, how would i tie a 'connect' onto a
button from another class ? Can you typecast the connect
so that it knows its going onto a FXButton in an instance 
variable or is there a 'widget controller' which i can 
query to get an FXButton 'handle' passed to me ?

(i have a single login/password dialog, and depending on
 where the person 'okays', i want to run a different method
 in different classes, if you see what i mean :)

Sorry for the really 'clumsy' way of doing this :)
Many thanks and best regards
Stef