[Fxruby-users] Re: Elementary FXDialogBox query

[Nigel W. <ni...@wa...>]

--On Sunday, June 06, 2004 03:51:52 +0900 Lyle Johnson <ly...@kn...> 
wrote:

>
> On Jun 5, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Nigel Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to use a dialog box in FXRuby.
>
> <snip>
>
> 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
>

Thanks, I've now got it working. Out of curiosity what class does 
theDialog.textField return as I have had to use theDialog.textField.to_s to 
use it as a string.

Cheers
Nigel