FXRuby design questions

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Hi,

I just started working through FXRuby examples and have a couple of
questions about http://www.fxruby.org/examples/hello2.rb , whuich provides a
nice ToolTip demo:

  1. The syntax of the “FXPNGIcon.new(application, f.read)” statement would
    lead me to think the icon is being attached to the application (e.g., for
    purpose of displaying the app in an OS’ toolbar when it runs, perhaps)
    rather than in the application’s FXMainWindow instance. I’d expect it to
    have a “main” argument explicitly naming the window to which it should be
    attached, as FxButton.new does.

  2. FXTooltip.new’s failure to name any particular object leads me to think
    it should wire a tooltip into every object in the application (or rather,
    the app’s main window?) that’s built to generate a tooltip, and that the
    tooltip text is to be gotten from each such object’s caption text (using
    everything following the first tab.)

The documentation I found for these classes on FXRuby.org | API Reference
Docs doesn’t address these issues (yet). Understanding them would help me
(and others, I imagine) use the good-looking GUI package more effectively.

I had originally addressed this question to Hal Fulton, who said he’d post
it on a lightly use FXRuby mail list. I couldn’t find any newsgroup that
mirrored this list (as giganews.com does for this list), so I decided to
post the question here.

Any comments would be appreciated, even those that think this is a
worthless set of questions :slight_smile:

TIA,
Richard

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Richard Lionheart wrote:

The documentation I found for these classes on FXRuby.org | API Reference
Docs doesn’t address these issues (yet). Understanding them would help me
(and others, I imagine) use the good-looking GUI package more effectively.

I’m not sure if the regular FOX documentation would have addressed these
questions to your satisfaction, but I’m not sure you know about that
resource either. :wink: So here’s a link to the FOX home page:

http://www.fox-toolkit.com

If you follow the “Documentation” link from the main page, you’ll find a
collection of articles on different FOX programming topics, all written
by Jeroen van der Zijp, the developer of FOX.

To be sure, the documentation for FXRuby needs to be improved. On the
other hand, I don’t want it to become redundant with any of the
documentation Jeroen’s already written. If he already has a decent
explanation of how, say, layout managers work in FOX, it’s probably not
the best use of my time to “port” that documentation to Ruby, since the
fundamental concepts are the same. :wink:

I had originally addressed this question to Hal Fulton, who said he’d post
it on a lightly use FXRuby mail list. I couldn’t find any newsgroup that
mirrored this list (as giganews.com does for this list), so I decided to
post the question here.

I (and others) have addressed those questions on the FXRuby users’
mailing list (which I saw before I came over here :wink: and so I won’t
rehash those answers here. It is a pretty low-traffic list, and so it
might not hurt to subscribe (see the FXRuby home page for more
information). The regular foxgui-users mailing list is higher traffic,
but on the other hand you tend to get better answers (especially those
from Jeroen himself ;).

Hope this helps,

Lyle

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Hi Lyle,

Thanks for the guidance.

http://www.fox-toolkit.com
I didn’t know about this!

If you follow the “Documentation” link from the main page …
That’s the kind of stuff I was looking for; Great!

To be sure, the documentation for FXRuby needs to be improved. On the
other hand, I don’t want it to become redundant …
Don’t do that on my account … At first glance, I think the stuff at this
link will be very helpful.

FXRuby users’ list and foxgui-users list
OK, I’ll subscribe to them for a while, though I’ve built up a big bias in
favor of the newsgroup paradigm :slight_smile:

Again, Lyle, thanks for your info. It’s much appreciated by this Ruby
newbie … well, not quite so new anymore :slight_smile:

Regards,
Richard

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