[Fxruby-users] Re: Elementary FXDialogBox query

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Jun 5, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Nigel Wilkinson wrote:

> I'm trying to use a dialog box in FXRuby.

OK.

> I have a class set up as follows

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> When invoked I get the dialog that closes when either of the buttons 
> is pressed and return a 1 or a 0 depending on which button is pressed.

Yes, looks good.

> What I want to do is capture the text in the text field so i tried

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Umm, no. You don't call execute() on the dialog box while you're still 
constructing it. Try something like this instead:

	class AddItemDialog < FXDialogBox
		# Add an accessor so we can get to the text field later
		attr_accessor :textField

		def initialize(owner)
			... as before, but...
			@textField = FXTextField.new(...)
		end
		def create
			... as before ...
		end
	end

and then invoke it like this:

	theDialog = AddItemDialog.new(someWindow)
	if theDialog.execute != 0
		puts theDialog.textField
	end

Hope this helps,

Lyle