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Re: Best class to use

2009-11-24T13:51:26Z

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Stuart Clarke <stuart_clarke86@...> wrote:

My questions are, how can I create the text field as an append-able area? For example, as a user I want to type things into the text area (input area) and I will also click buttons which will add some data to the input area also. At present when I click the buttons to add data it clears the text field (input area).

Well, to append text to an FXText widget, you can use the FXText#appendText method. If it's an FXTextField, you'd need to grab the current text field content, add the new content to it, and then set it back to the FXTextField, e.g.

text_field.text = text_field.text + "some appended text"

My second question is, how do I get the GUI to respond to new lines being entered into the text area (input area)? Each time a line is filled or the user hits the enter/return button I want the time to entered into the date area for the corresponding line in the input area for example

INPUT AREA DATE AREA
this is my data, i am the user (USER HITS ENTER FOR NEW LINE) Date value

I think the easiest way would be to listen for either the SEL_INSERTED or SEL_CHANGED message from the FXText widget; see the API documentation for more information:

http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXText.html

Hope this helps,

Lyle

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Re: SEL_CONFIGURE

2009-11-24T13:24:40Z

If it's the main window of your application, you might be able to just get away with doing something after app.run is finished.

ie:

require 'fox16'
include Fox

a = FXApp.new
w = FXMainWindow.new(a, 'title', :width=>320, :height=>240)

a.create
w.show(PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
a.run

puts "My Cleanup code!"

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...> wrote:

Hi

Thanks for the information on SEL_CONFIGURE. It seems that that
message gets sent a few times during the window's lifecycle and there
seems to be no way to tell those times apart from the time when the
'x' button in the corner is clicked.

Or is there a way?
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Re: Best class to use

2009-11-24T13:05:49Z

Are you sure you actually need to use a text area for the display portion? Part of what you may be able to do is use an FXIconList, to create a "preview", and a "timestamp" area. the user would be able to double click on the FXIconList to see the full details past the "preview". In my experience it is much easier to append data to a list like item, that it is to try and re-draw widgets every time something happens. You could do something like this:

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Item Preview                               | Timestamp       |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Here is some preview text                   | 2009-11-24 15:39:09 |
| Here is some more preview text that is re...| 2009-11-24 16:00:03   |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
|                                                                     |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------

Enter data:
+---------------------------------------------+
| Text area to submit data                    |   [ Some other button ]
|                                             |   [ Another Button ]
|                                             |   [ Submit Button ]
+---------------------------------------------+

I don't fully understand all your needs, so forgive me if I am way off, but from what I can gather something like this is what you are looking for, and something like this would also be a lot easier to code than what I think you are trying to code.

Thanks,
Joey

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Stuart Clarke <stuart_clarke86@...> wrote:

At present I have two text areas, one for data (input area) and one for the time stamp (date area) in two horizontal frames.

My questions are, how can I create the text field as an append-able area? For example, as a user I want to type things into the text area (input area) and I will also click buttons which will add some data to the input area also. At present when I click the buttons to add data it clears the text field (input area).

My second question is, how do I get the GUI to respond to new lines being entered into the text area (input area)? Each time a line is filled or the user hits the enter/return button I want the time to entered into the date area for the corresponding line in the input area for example

INPUT AREA DATE AREA
this is my data, i am the user (USER HITS ENTER FOR NEW LINE) Date value

I hope this is a bit clearer, many thanks

Stuart

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Subject: Re: [fxruby-users] Best class to use
To: fxruby-users@...
Date: Monday, 23 November, 2009, 17:23

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Stuart Clarke <stuart_clarke86@...> wrote:

My initial thoughts are a text area for the input, but I am unsure how I can link this to an area for time stamping?

I don't think I understand what it is that you're unsure about. Are you asking how to achieve this kind of layout? I think I would put each text area/time stamp pair of widgets inside some container (e.g. an FXHorizontalFrame). Or maybe I'd put all of the text area/time stamp pairs in an FXMatrix container--actually, that sounds better. And you'll presumably want to put that outermost container into a scrolling window.

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Re: Best class to use

2009-11-24T12:42:45Z

At present I have two text areas, one for data (input area) and one for the time stamp (date area) in two horizontal frames.

My questions are, how can I create the text field as an append-able area? For example, as a user I want to type things into the text area (input area) and I will also click buttons which will add some data to the input area also. At present when I click the buttons to add data it clears the text field (input area).

My second question is, how do I get the GUI to respond to new lines being entered into the text area (input area)? Each time a line is filled or the user hits the enter/return button I want the time to entered into the date area for the corresponding line in the input area for example

INPUT AREA DATE AREA

this is my data, i am the user (USER HITS ENTER FOR NEW LINE) Date value

I hope this is a bit clearer, many thanks

Stuart

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From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Subject: Re: [fxruby-users] Best class to use
To: fxruby-users@...
Date: Monday, 23 November, 2009, 17:23

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Stuart Clarke <stuart_clarke86@...> wrote:

My initial thoughts are a text area for the input, but I am unsure how I can link this to an area for time stamping?

I don't think I understand what it is that you're unsure about. Are you asking how to achieve this kind of layout? I think I would put each text area/time stamp pair of widgets inside some container (e.g. an FXHorizontalFrame). Or maybe I'd put all of the text area/time stamp pairs in an FXMatrix container--actually, that sounds better. And you'll presumably want to put that outermost container into a scrolling window.

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Re: fxruby1.6.20

2009-11-24T00:45:21Z

Are there any serious foxguib problems with newer fxruby versions?

I am not able to further support foxguib all alone, but I would accept and review any patches ... ;)
Anyone feel free to clone foxguib on github: http://github.com/henon/foxguib

Cheers,
-- henon

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM, dave L <dglnz@...> wrote:

I've just created another XP VM (I run linux as my main OS).

anyway I just had a thought and wnat you input on fxruby upgrades.

Do you foresee a time or a point where you will need to revisit foxguib to keep it current with the other features?

or even fox (currently i use fox16 but there maybe an iteration fox20 or whatever.

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SEL_CONFIGURE

2009-11-23T11:01:53Z

Hi

Thanks for the information on SEL_CONFIGURE. It seems that that
message gets sent a few times during the window's lifecycle and there
seems to be no way to tell those times apart from the time when the
'x' button in the corner is clicked.

Or is there a way?
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Re: Best class to use

2009-11-23T09:23:52Z

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Stuart Clarke <stuart_clarke86@...> wrote:

My initial thoughts are a text area for the input, but I am unsure how I can link this to an area for time stamping?

I don't think I understand what it is that you're unsure about. Are you asking how to achieve this kind of layout? I think I would put each text area/time stamp pair of widgets inside some container (e.g. an FXHorizontalFrame). Or maybe I'd put all of the text area/time stamp pairs in an FXMatrix container--actually, that sounds better. And you'll presumably want to put that outermost container into a scrolling window.

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Best class to use

2009-11-23T08:20:42Z

Hello all,

I am looking for input to an issue I am facing. I want to write a simple GUI that will be used by users for logging. The GUI needs the following

A text area for logging
An area for time stamping every new line created
A frame area with buttons to select file paths
The ability to out a text based report showing each entry from the text area with its time stamp alongside

My initial thoughts are a text area for the input, but I am unsure how I can link this to an area for time stamping? I intend to have a small frame at the bottom of the GUI with a button and corresponding text field allowing users to select a folder with dirlist. My intended GUI will be as follows:

TEXT AREA TIME STAMP

ETC, ETC

FRAME - BUTTON TEXT FIELD

My report that I generate from this information will link the text area and time stamp together.

I hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: FXRuby/ questions about fotos

2009-11-18T06:22:00Z

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Benjamin Sebastian Kolz
<benjaminrub-upf@...> wrote:

> I've got two questions mainly about fotos in FX Ruby.
>
> I read the FX Ruby book and I'm using the "scale to thumbnail" method in my
> project.

OK.

> Extract from the main code:
>
> @logo="logo_small.jpeg"
> logo_load=ImageViewer.new(self,@logo)
>
>
> 1. How can I position the foto in the window? If I create a bottom, f. ex.,
> I have
> LAYOUT_EXPLICIT, :x => 50, :y => 200, :width => 200, :height => 200, but
> how can
> I select the x- and y-value for the foto? Any idea?

Well, without any of the code for your ImageViewer class, I don't know
how to answer that question.

> 2. I would like to put this logo also into the title bar... is that
> possible?

Yes, I think that's what the "miniIcon" argument is for in
FXMainWindow's constructor.
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FXRuby/ questions about fotos

2009-11-14T08:55:05Z

Hi everybody,

I've got two questions mainly about fotos in FX Ruby.

I read the FX Ruby book and I'm using the "scale to thumbnail" method in my project.

Extract from the main code:

@logo="logo_small.jpeg"
logo_load=ImageViewer.new(self,@logo)

1. How can I position the foto in the window? If I create a bottom, f. ex., I have
   LAYOUT_EXPLICIT, :x => 50, :y => 200, :width => 200, :height => 200, but how can
   I select the x- and y-value for the foto? Any idea?

2. I would like to put this logo also into the title bar... is that possible?

some code:
class Main_Window < FXMainWindow
    def self.toggle(nr, *args)
        @@switcher.setCurrent(nr)
        @@window[nr].set_text(args[0].to_s)
      end

    def initialize(app)
        super(app, 'Title bar text', :width=>800, :height=>600) # can I add a foto (logo) to the text in the title bar?
        init_frameset
      end

Thanks in advance for any response! Have a nice weekend
Benjamin

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Concerning the "FXRuby" forum at ruby-forum.com

2009-11-12T09:02:12Z

Andreas,

On your ruby-forum.com web site you include an "FXRuby" forum that is
described as "fxruby-users mailing list". I think this has probably
led to a lot of frustration for people who post questions there
(instead of on the real fxruby-users mailing list, hosted at
RubyForge), since I don't monitor your forum and thus don't see those
questions.

I don't want to tell you how to run your site, but I wonder if you
could you at least add some kind of disclaimer that points people to
the real mailing list, in case none of your forum readers are able to
help them?

Thanks in advance,

Lyle
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Re: Not receiving FXTopWindow events

2009-11-11T13:46:00Z

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...> wrote:

> I'm afraid I posted here:
> http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/199028
> ..before seeing that that forum looks almost totally dead. Should one
> of these forums not be shut down to save people some time and false
> hopes? :-)

I agree with you, but it's not my forum to shut down. :) I don't have
the bandwidth to monitor the Internet for all of these little
discussion pockets. This mailing list has always been (and continues
to be) the place for FXRuby chatter.

> So I'm going to repost here and reply there to close the topic, thus,
> hopefully remaining a good netizen.

Thanks. ;)

> Here is my question:
>
> I am trying to listen for the FXTopWindow events SEL_CLOSE,
> SEL_MINIMIZE, SEL_MAXIMIZE, SEL_RESTORE because I want to execute some
> code when a person presses the X button to close the window, etc.
>
> None of my code gets executed though. Can anyone help?

Per the message found by Joey Kinsella (elsewhere in this thread) it
sounds like the documentation for FXTopWindow needs to be corrected to
reflect the fact that you only get SEL_MINIMIZE, SEL_MAXIMIZE,
SEL_RESTORE and SEL_CLOSE when you call one of those FXTopWindow
methods (e.g. FXTopWindow#maximize); otherwise you just get
SEL_CONFIGURE. I'm not sure why the documentation wasn't corrected
when that problem was originally reported.

Leslie, could you please file a bug report on this on the new bug
tracker at Lighthouse?

http://fxruby.lighthouseapp.com/projects/40125-fxruby

Thanks,

Lyle
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Re: Not receiving FXTopWindow events

2009-11-11T12:39:51Z

As posted here:

http://old.nabble.com/programmatically-%22pushing%22-a-button-td14403676.html

It appears that when a user selects Maximize or Minimize it actually sends SEL_CONFIGURE.

Hope that helps.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...> wrote:

Hi everyone

I'm afraid I posted here:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/199028
..before seeing that that forum looks almost totally dead. Should one
of these forums not be shut down to save people some time and false
hopes? :-)

So I'm going to repost here and reply there to close the topic, thus,
hopefully remaining a good netizen.

Here is my question:

I am trying to listen for the FXTopWindow events SEL_CLOSE,
SEL_MINIMIZE, SEL_MAXIMIZE, SEL_RESTORE because I want to execute some
code when a person presses the X button to close the window, etc.

None of my code gets executed though. Can anyone help?

class TextDialog
def initialize(parent)
construct_widget_tree(parent)
init if respond_to? 'init'
end

def construct_widget_tree(parent)
@topwin = FXMainWindow.new(parent, 'title')
@topwin.width = 300
@topwin.height = 200
end

attr_reader :topwin
end

if __FILE__==$0
require 'fox16'
include Fox

app=FXApp.new
w=TextDialog.new(app)

w.topwin.connect(SEL_CLOSE) { app.exit }
w.topwin.connect(SEL_MINIMIZE) { puts "MIN" }
w.topwin.connect(SEL_MAXIMIZE) { puts "MAX" }
w.topwin.connect(SEL_RESTORE) { puts "RESTORE" }

w.topwin.show
app.create
app.run
end
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Not receiving FXTopWindow events

2009-11-11T12:16:22Z

Hi everyone

I'm afraid I posted here:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/199028
..before seeing that that forum looks almost totally dead. Should one
of these forums not be shut down to save people some time and false
hopes? :-)

So I'm going to repost here and reply there to close the topic, thus,
hopefully remaining a good netizen.

Here is my question:

I am trying to listen for the FXTopWindow events SEL_CLOSE,
SEL_MINIMIZE, SEL_MAXIMIZE, SEL_RESTORE because I want to execute some
code when a person presses the X button to close the window, etc.

None of my code gets executed though. Can anyone help?

class TextDialog
def initialize(parent)
construct_widget_tree(parent)
init if respond_to? 'init'
end

def construct_widget_tree(parent)
@topwin = FXMainWindow.new(parent, 'title')
@topwin.width = 300
@topwin.height = 200
end

attr_reader :topwin
end

if __FILE__==$0
require 'fox16'
include Fox

app=FXApp.new
w=TextDialog.new(app)

w.topwin.connect(SEL_CLOSE) { app.exit }
w.topwin.connect(SEL_MINIMIZE) { puts "MIN" }
w.topwin.connect(SEL_MAXIMIZE) { puts "MAX" }
w.topwin.connect(SEL_RESTORE) { puts "RESTORE" }

w.topwin.show
app.create
app.run
end
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[ANN] FXRuby 1.6.20 Now Available

2009-11-09T14:43:18Z

All,

FXRuby version 1.6.20 is now available for download.

This release is primarily a transitional one, intended to prove out
the significant changes to the development environment. Earlier this
year, the FXRuby source code repository was moved from Subversion
(hosted at RubyForge) to Git (hosted at GitHub). More recently, I've
revamped the build system, replacing some custom scripts with a more
standardized process based on the Hoe and rake-compiler extensions to
Rake. The intent of these changes is to make it easier for interested
parties to participate in FXRuby's development. As a result, despite a
good bit of code churn, there are (by design) no significant
functional differences between this release and version 1.6.19. For a
summary of the changes in this release of FXRuby, please see this
page:

http://www.fxruby.org/doc/changes.html

Enjoy,

Lyle
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Re: FXRuby table and color questions

2009-11-09T13:51:00Z

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen@...> wrote:

> Does the Fox toolkit support partial transparency?

Not as far as I know.

When you assign an icon image to a widget (usually a label or button),
FOX will honor any regions identified as fully transparent in the
image. For PNGs, it uses the alpha channel to identify regions where
alpha is zero; for other image types it can guess the transparent
color or you can specify it explicitly.

> Also, is it possible to give different background colours to each cell
> in a FXTable? The documentation seems to
> skirt past this issue with a setCellColor function which only provides
> for global shading of every second row/col.
> Maybe I am missing something obvious?

You aren't missing anything. All you can achieve with the table, short
of maybe subclassing it and overriding the drawing behavior, is set
alternating cell colors.
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Re: Timer function usage

2009-11-06T12:58:39Z

lol, you are trying around pretty crazy things :) .. I'll give you a hint: you better not try around so much and instead read the docs more precisely.

read this
http://www.fxruby.org/doc/events.html
here it is written pretty unmistakable how to do it. with working code!
-- henon

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 7:48 AM, dave L <dglnz@...> wrote:

Well just tried this code now and got the error below it.

def hello
     %23@...)
     puts 'hello'
end

def init

    @topwin.resize(958,670)


     aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, method(:hello))
....

end

>rubyw mymainwin3.rbw
mymainwin3.rbw:39:in `init': undefined method `addTimeout' for #<FX::MainWindow:0x40636ec> (NoMethodError)
from ./multitabwin3.rb:6:in `initialize'
from mymainwin3.rbw:13:in `initialize'
from mymainwin3.rbw:106:in `new'
from mymainwin3.rbw:106
>Exit code: 1

because of this error think i had tried other variations as per my original email to you.

have also tried aTimer = addTimeout.new and also added in a require 'timeout' statement into the program just in case i had to add in the file without realising it from documentation.

Now i've tried something a bit left field.

this is my thinking be it right or wrong...

because the error shown implies there is NO object created i added this in the unit test code...

#unit test
if __FILE__==$0
require 'libGUIb16'
app=FX::App.new
w=Fxwindow_code.new app
w.topwin.show(Fox::PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
@aTimer = app.addTimeout.new<<<< in case i needed to create the object 1st.
app.create
app.run
end

now i have this code

giving me the error below...

def init

    @topwin.resize(958,670)

    @aTimer {1000 :hello}

>rubyw mymainwin3.rbw
mymainwin3.rbw:39: syntax error, unexpected '{', expecting kEND
    @aTimer {1000 :hello}
             ^
>Exit code: 1

have tried replacing the {} with DO and END but got an error $end expected.

tried brackets but got unexpected () encountered.

could you send me a work piece of code?

like a listbox , toggle button

push button and timer is started, after timeout text apended to the listbox, push button again and timeout is removed?

that way i can see what errors i get (esp if you wroked sample fails).

rgds,

Dave.
From: Meinrad Recheis <meinrad.recheis@...>
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Subject: Re: Timer function usage
you need to give it a method:
aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, method(:hello))
hth,
-- henon

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, dave L <dglnz@...> wrote:

Hi Meinrad,

I have been battling with trying to get the timer event to work - wanting to have an event/methd run every X minutes.

from my reading of things this should work but it fails with no methoderror.

aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, (:hello))

Hello is a define method further up in code - currently it puts hello to a listbox every second as proof of it working.

also tried this.

aTimer = Timer.new

aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, (:hello))

my ultimate aim is to have it reset after countdown so it's a continous timer to fire an event that will request a read from a database (thinking in memory SQLlite at present) and refresh the listbox.

Oh i did get over my other issues (more of a work around but still) - that's all working now <sheepish grin>

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Re: Timer function usage

2009-11-05T02:05:39Z

you need to give it a method:

aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, method(:hello))

hth,
-- henon

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, dave L <dglnz@...> wrote:

Hi Meinrad,

I have been battling with trying to get the timer event to work - wanting to have an event/methd run every X minutes.

from my reading of things this should work but it fails with no methoderror.

aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, (:hello))

Hello is a define method further up in code - currently it puts hello to a listbox every second as proof of it working.

also tried this.

aTimer = Timer.new

aTimer = @topwin.addTimeout(1000, (:hello))

my ultimate aim is to have it reset after countdown so it's a continous timer to fire an event that will request a read from a database (thinking in memory SQLlite at present) and refresh the listbox.

Oh i did get over my other issues (more of a work around but still) - that's all working now <sheepish grin>

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Timer control

2009-11-01T23:51:01Z

Was wondering if anyone could via small piece of code show how a timer is envoked.

Sometimes (at least for me) a worked sample (with some documentation) is better than having something explained in words.

I would be grateful,

Dave

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On Moving Away from RubyForge Services

2009-10-26T14:46:26Z

All,

As some of you may have heard, the default gem hosting repository will
soon transition away from RubyForge.org to a new site, RubyGems.org
(aka Gemcutter.org). Coincident with this transition will be a gradual
(?) phasing out of other RubyForge services, which I've written about
here:

http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2009/10/26/wait-what-was-that-last-bit/

As I write near the end of that piece, I'm starting to think about
where some of these services (namely, FXRuby's bug tracker and mailing
list) should land after the dust settles. I list a couple of
possibilities in the blog, but I'd like to open up discussion here as
well for anyone who has opinions and experiences to offer. So, chime
in as you feel led!

Thanks,

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Tabbook tabitem controls

2009-10-25T03:06:13Z

Hi,

(note - I use foxGUIb for the GUI placement of controls)

had a an issue with the tabbed books control - namely after working on the 1st tab for most of the time i am now at a point where i can move onto the 2nd tab.

To reduce the amount of code sitting inside init of my event handling program i moved a lot of methods i'd written to another file.

I then proceeded to work on my 2nd tab with regards to creating the event hooks, BUT found that event my calls to
another file that had worked perfectly failed! plus my calls to methods in my newly created file failed.

but when i got back to my 1st tab things worked again - NO PROBLEMS NO CRASHES! even calls to methods within the same file as my event code failed.

All these said that there was no method...

Tonight i added these lines...

#@PStabitem2.shown = true
#@PStabitem2.enabled = true
#@PStabitem2.visible = true

then things started to work, so i uncommented a method i had created and things worked, so i then copied the code and put them in another file (one i created when i started work on the 2nd tab) and the calls passed no problems.

So as an exercise I commented each line above to see what the change was but the code worked even with all 4 lines commented as i show then above the code works.

what gives?

I actually created another file deleting all references the controls etc associated with the 1st tab.
Even this didn't help my problems and I'm wondering if there is a "bug" that isn't mentioned in the API?

I mean I would have thought that if one clicks on a tab then within the code it would have a method at least to say activate (mean although you see the controls they need some primer work done so they act as expected).

If anyone can give me an explanation on why I've had this problem I'd be grateful.
I've googled, api'd forumed for a week now any only got it going by a fluke!

Also i can't use any of the codes in keys.rb.

wanting to use function keys like F11 and F9 but i cannot do this as expected...

ACONTROL.connect(SEL_KEYPRESS){
   if keycode == KEY_F9          Do know that the keycode is an error but i didn't know at first.
     do something
   end
}

Now i had come across a posting from Lyle saying you used event.code to trap the keypress value.
so i tried doing a puts "key pressed = #{event.code} was" type statement but it failed with errors

I do understand foxGUIb hasn't got the best documentation but would have thought this would've been somewhere in the fxruby forums before now.

Henon has helped be over this problem (but i cannot detect F key presses) in so far as i have this....

ACONTROL.connect(SELKEYPRESS){}a,b,event|
if event.code = '97'
    do something - I cannot trap with KEY_a or any other constant in KEYS.rb
    F keys - I use theinteger values and use them in code - not the best.
end
}

again WHY?

where is the error code when i use KEY_ defined in keys.rb file.
I don't require the file in code (and when i did try this earlier in the day it still didn't help - even with using extend statement.

>rubyw mymainwin3.rbw
mymainwin3.rbw:39:in `init': uninitialized constant Fxwindow_code::KEY_Escape (NameError)
    from C:/Ruby1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.16-x86-mswin32-60/lib/fox16/responder2.rb:55:in `call'
    from C:/Ruby1.8/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.16-x86-mswin32-60/lib/fox16/responder2.rb:55:in `onHandleMsg'
    from mymainwin3.rbw:82:in `run'
    from mymainwin3.rbw:82
>Exit code: 1

and here is the actual code snippet - I was using the numbers (currently commented out to the left and it worked)

    @PSlist2.connect(Fox::SEL_KEYPRESS){|a,b,event|

      case event.code
        when KEY_Escape #65307 #Escape key pressed
           change_radio_status 3
        when KEY_F9 #65478 # F9 pressed
           change_radio_status 4
        when KEY_F5 #65474 #F5 pressed
           change_radio_status 2
        when KEY_F1 #65470 #F1 pressed
           change_radio_status 1
       end
    }

Rgds,

Dave.

Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T14:45:35Z

On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Amber Vaesca wrote:

> That did the trick; text looks great! Everything seems to be working
> flawlessly; but I'm not really *trying* to break anything. Thanks
> for this; you made my week. :)

No, thank you! Having independent confirmation that it works is a huge
help. Let me know if you spot anything unusual with it.

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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T14:30:31Z

Lyle Johnson wrote:

>> The MacPorts installation that I have produces anti-aliased text in
>> all of the widgets, but the gem does not. I'm guessing this has
>> something to do with a FreeType library installation or something,
>> but it if doesn't bloat the gem much, that might be a good thing to
>> include.
>
> It took a little experimentation, but I think I've got it working. I
> replaced the previous copy of the gem in my Dropbox with a new one
> built with Xft support; for reference, the link is...

That did the trick; text looks great! Everything seems to be working
flawlessly; but I'm not really *trying* to break anything. Thanks for
this; you made my week. :)

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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T13:19:10Z

On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Amber Vaesca wrote:

> I gave the new Snow Leopard friendly gem a whirl on my newish
> MacBook Pro, and an older MacPro tower. Both installations went
> fine, and I was able to execute my applications and FoxGUIb, without
> any issues save but one minor thing:
>
> The MacPorts installation that I have produces anti-aliased text in
> all of the widgets, but the gem does not. I'm guessing this has
> something to do with a FreeType library installation or something,
> but it if doesn't bloat the gem much, that might be a good thing to
> include.

It took a little experimentation, but I think I've got it working. I
replaced the previous copy of the gem in my Dropbox with a new one
built with Xft support; for reference, the link is:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/60906/FXRuby-1.6.20-universal-darwin-10.gem

Make sure that you uninstall the gem you previously installed:

sudo gem uninstall FXRuby

and then download and install this new one. Let me know how it goes!
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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T10:43:49Z

On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Amber Vaesca wrote:

>> If you have the time and are willing to be a guinea pig, please
>> download and give it a short (and let me know how it goes).
>> Remember, the goal here is that the end-user doesn't have to have
>> any of FOX's numerous dependencies preinstalled to use these.
>
> I gave the new Snow Leopard friendly gem a whirl on my newish
> MacBook Pro, and an older MacPro tower. Both installations went
> fine, and I was able to execute my applications and FoxGUIb, without
> any issues save but one minor thing:
>
> The MacPorts installation that I have produces anti-aliased text in
> all of the widgets, but the gem does not. I'm guessing this has
> something to do with a FreeType library installation or something,
> but it if doesn't bloat the gem much, that might be a good thing to
> include.

Ah! This is good information. Yes, I'll check into that and see what
needs to be done. Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad to hear that
the gem basically works!
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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T10:07:21Z

> If you have the time and are willing to be a guinea pig, please
> download and give it a short (and let me know how it goes).
> Remember, the goal here is that the end-user doesn't have to have
> any of FOX's numerous dependencies preinstalled to use these.

I gave the new Snow Leopard friendly gem a whirl on my newish MacBook
Pro, and an older MacPro tower. Both installations went fine, and I
was able to execute my applications and FoxGUIb, without any issues
save but one minor thing:

The MacPorts installation that I have produces anti-aliased text in
all of the widgets, but the gem does not. I'm guessing this has
something to do with a FreeType library installation or something, but
it if doesn't bloat the gem much, that might be a good thing to include.

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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T08:40:31Z

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Lyle Johnson <lyle@...> wrote:

OK, I do have a virtual machine with Ubuntu 9.04 around here somewhere. I will try to put something together and we'll see if it works.

Dave,

Here is a native gem for Ubuntu 9.04:

http://lylejohnson.name/FXRuby-1.6.20-x86-linux.gem

Why don't you try downloading that gem, then type

sudo gem install FXRuby-1.6.20-x86-linux.gem

and let's see what happens. ;)

Lyle

P.S. This obviously goes for anyone else who's in the mood to help out with testing.

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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-21T07:45:32Z

On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:18 AM, dave L wrote:

If you have something for linux then i'd be happy to test it.

I don't have anything precompiled for Linux, but I guess I could try to put something together. The problem is that there are so many variables that come into play with Linux, and I'm not sure which ones of them are significant. For example, I know that it matters which version of Ruby you've installed (FXRuby built against Ruby 1.8 won't work with Ruby 1.9, and vice-versa). But I don't know if it matters, for example, if I'm running Linux kernel version X and you're running Linux kernel version Y, etc.

You may have figured I'm not the brightest light bulb in the pack when it comes to ruby but I do try to sort issues i have out before posting and then i carry on trying.

I use Meinrad's foxGUIb front end and find it BLOOD great as i can easily knock up a GUI front end quicker and get a visual look quicker than i can with FXruby natively (plus i find i get confuse about the FXruby code.

personally would love to see foxGUIb worked on some more to make it easier to add controls that someone like me could add to _or_ to add new controls like the fxtable (know this won't happen and i haven't got the skills).

Maybe you don't have the skills right now, but I bet Meinrad would appreciate it if you made an effort to get more involved contribute back to the foxGUIb project (and maybe you already have, I don't know). Have you ever poked around in the foxGUIb source code to try to figure out how it works, and then try making little changes to see how they affect things? That's a good way to start dipping your toes in. ;)

I run Kubuntu 9.04

OK, I do have a virtual machine with Ubuntu 9.04 around here somewhere. I will try to put something together and we'll see if it works.

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Re: Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-20T23:18:34Z

Lyle,

If you have something for linux then i'd be happy to test it.

You may have figured I'm not the brightest light bulb in the pack when it comes to ruby but I do try to sort issues i have out before posting and then i carry on trying.

I use Meinrad's foxGUIb front end and find it BLOOD great as i can easily knock up a GUI front end quicker and get a visual look quicker than i can with FXruby natively (plus i find i get confuse about the FXruby code.

personally would love to see foxGUIb worked on some more to make it easier to add controls that someone like me could add to _or_ to add new controls like the fxtable (know this won't happen and i haven't got the skills).

I run Kubuntu 9.04

cheers,

Dave

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Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 9:42:52 AM
Subject: [fxruby-users] Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

All,

A couple of new build platforms have come into the picture since the last FXRuby release and I'm trying to make sure they're supported. That is to say, I want to be able to provide precompiled binary gems so that users on those platforms don't have to build everything from source. I think I'm there, but I could use your help testing if you have access to either (1) the new, still under development MinGW-based Ruby installer or (2) Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Here is a binary installer for FXRuby 1.6 on Ruby 1.8.6, the MinGW edition (the one being developed by Luis Lavena and co.):

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/60906/FXRuby-1.6.20-x86-mingw32.gem

And here is a binary gem for FXRuby 1.6 on Ruby 1.8.7, the one that comes with Snow Leopard:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/60906/FXRuby-1.6.20-universal-darwin-10.gem

If you have the time and are willing to be a guinea pig, please download and give it a short (and let me know how it goes). Remember, the goal here is that the end-user doesn't have to have any of FOX's numerous dependencies preinstalled to use these.

Thanks,

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Pre-release FXRuby binary gems for testing

2009-10-20T13:42:52Z

All,

A couple of new build platforms have come into the picture since the
last FXRuby release and I'm trying to make sure they're supported.
That is to say, I want to be able to provide precompiled binary gems
so that users on those platforms don't have to build everything from
source. I think I'm there, but I could use your help testing if you
have access to either (1) the new, still under development MinGW-based
Ruby installer or (2) Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Here is a binary installer for FXRuby 1.6 on Ruby 1.8.6, the MinGW
edition (the one being developed by Luis Lavena and co.):

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/60906/FXRuby-1.6.20-x86-mingw32.gem

And here is a binary gem for FXRuby 1.6 on Ruby 1.8.7, the one that
comes with Snow Leopard:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/60906/FXRuby-1.6.20-universal-darwin-10.gem

If you have the time and are willing to be a guinea pig, please
download and give it a short (and let me know how it goes). Remember,
the goal here is that the end-user doesn't have to have any of FOX's
numerous dependencies preinstalled to use these.

Thanks,

Lyle
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Re: Help in request

2009-10-19T08:57:32Z

On Oct 18, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Helmut Hagemann wrote:

> this is my problem the whole picture with the background color is
> stored
> see Bird.jpg
>
> however, I would like to have Birdwanted.jpg

OK, so you want to make sure that the new width and height are half of
the original width and height, e.g.

x, y = 0.5*@..., 0.5*@...
new_width, new_height = 0.5*@..., 0.5*@...
@image.crop(x, y, new_width, new_height, FXRGBA(236,233,216,255))

> another question
> In the Tutorial Example 7 imageviewer...

What "tutorial" are you referring to here?

> ... if is there a problem with rotate
> because picture is not indicated anew
> if one presses View and
> File list checkButton presses then the change is indicated

I doubt there's a bug in the FXImage#rotate method, but yes, there
does seem to be a bug in the imageviewer.rb example program. I'll add
it to the bug list for future investigation.

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Re:

2009-10-17T11:12:38Z

On Oct 17, 2009, at 6:02 AM, Helmut Hagemann wrote:

> Have a Probelm with @image.crop
>
> why the picture use not the new border by creat crop command?
>
> with width and height i see old values a used

I'm having trouble understanding exactly what is your question, but
looking at your code, I think you may have misinterpreted the
arguments for the FXImage#crop method. Here is the documentation:

http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXImage.html

The first two arguments to crop() are the (x, y) coordinates for the
top left corner of the crop rectangle, and the 3rd and 4th arguments
are the width and height. In your code, you call crop() like this:

@mywidth = 0.5*@...
@myheight = 0.5*@...
@image.crop(@mywidth, @myheight, @image.width, @image.height, FXRGBA
(236, 233, 215, 255))

So this says that it should start cropping in the middle of the
(original) image, but the resulting image should have the same height
and width as the original image. Can you maybe say what it is that you
expected to see, or what is your desired end result?

Hope this helps,

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howto generate an event action in code?

2009-10-17T05:08:56Z

In my search to try and solve my curent problem with the combobox pane being visible and having to put focus back onto another control how could I within a combo.connect(SEL_FOCUSIN) call get a SEL-CLICK event to fire?

my thinking here is that currently i need TWO clicks 1 for the closing of the dropped down pane and another to click on the dialogbox.
this so the other control (namely a textbox) gets the focus back.

cheers,

dave.

combox action issue

2009-10-17T04:23:34Z

Got a problem that i am unsure about how to tackle.

What I would like to have happen is this....

user move off a textbox and clicks on a combobox.
IF the textbox is empty then popup a dialogbox to alert the user of the error then return focus back to that control.

what I am getting is...

textbox empty user clicks on a combobox it's pane appears and then the dialogbox appears.
it is a two click action (1 to close the pane and 1 to close the dialogbox.
And the focus has not been returned to the textbox.

I've search the fxruby api docs for help but not getting much.

can someone point to a URL for more explainations on the SEL_ commands? as i think this will help me no end.

thanks,

Dave.

FXRuby on Gemcutter.org

2009-10-15T07:48:22Z

All,

It has come to my attention that there's a bot out there somewhere
that's downloading the FXRuby binary gems for Windows from
Gemcutter.org, and doing it a lot. It seems to be ignoring the source
gems, but it is mirroring every FXRuby Win32 gem that's ever been
published (even ones that are 5+ years old). This is artificially
inflating the "popularity" of FXRuby in Gemcutter's statistics, which
isn't helpful to anyone.

So, if this is you, please knock it off!

That is all. ;)

Thanks,

Lyle

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