Re: [Fxruby-users] Re: to get list of messages for widget

[meinrad r. <mei...@gm...>]

ly...@kn... wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:41:32 -0700 (PDT), Vladislav Guzov
> <vl...@ya...> wrote :
> 
> 
>>I know about documentation but a tool like GUI builder
>>is not. Is it possible to get list using method or
>>some other way?
> 
> 
> No.
> 
> 
well, i think there is a (rather complicated) way!
i have thought about this too, because i wrote a gui builder and i think 
i have an idea how to do it.

first you need a list of all messages that exist. that is fairly easy 
with ruby:

messages = Fox.constants.grep /SEL_/ # or something like that

second you need to generate connectors for all messages in your widget 
that you want to test. for instance:

b = Button.new( parent, "text", ... )
messages.each{|const_string|
	const = Object.const_get(const_string)
	b.connect(const) { puts "received message: #{const_string}" }
}

third, test to which messages your widged responded
as far as i know, it is possible to send messages programmatically to a 
custom fox widget of your choice (lyle will correct me if i am wrong.), 
but unfortunately i don't have a piece of code ready here.

if you really managed to do this, i would be very interested in the 
script to use it for my gui builder.


cheers,
- henon