I have been going through the foxGUIb tutorial and the foxruby tutorial and noticed that there are subtle differences in the syntax used - for example.
This
require 'libGUIb16'
app=FX::App.new
w=MainWindow.new app
w.topwin.show(Fox::PLACEMENT_SCREEN)
app.create
app.run
Compared to this:
require 'fox16'
include Fox
theApp = FXApp.new
theMainWindow = FXMainWindow.new(theApp, "Hello")
theApp.create
theMainWindow.show
I understand the need for
require 'libGUIb16'
because I think it extends 'fox16' in some ways.
But I am not clear on why
1. FX::App.new versus FXApp.new
2. Different name and number of parrms for MainWindow.new
The reason I would like to understand is because I think all examples in the Pragmatic programmers FXRuby book by Lyle Johnson use the later which is not the same as that generated by the code generator. Perhaps there is a way to alias or some easy way so I don't need to change the example code much.
Finally I'd like to find a clean way to just initialise the events so that they would be able to call to methods outside the extended class. I think that would be a lot cleaner but might require a module or meta-programming or something cleaver like that.
BTW I also tried to get QT4Ruby working but couldn't even get the gems to install and work for hello world. Something about wrong number of parameters for methods. I think this will iron itself out over the next couple months and I'll take another look at it.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Carl
