fxruby users - Apr 2005 - FXSettings problem

Hi all.

I tried to subclass FXSettings in order to add some functionality to it 
but I ran into the following problem.

The code which shall be executed looks like this:

    def test
        reg = Registry.new("test.reg")
        reg.Parse
    end

The Registry class basically looks this way:

    require "fox12"
    include Fox

    class Registry < FXSettings
   
          attr_accessor :mFile
          attr_accessor :mDefaults
 
          def initialize(aFile)
                self.mFile = aFile
                self.mDefaults = FXSettings.new
          end

          def Parse
                parseFile(self.mFile, true)
                Defaults(false)
          end

          def Write
                unparseFile(self.mFile)
          end

          def Defaults(aOverwrite)
          end

          // Then a lot of stuff for setting default values and
          // some model-view implementations follow but they aren''t of
          // of importance regarding the error.

    end

When I call reg.Parse now, the ruby interpreter prints out
   
    ./Registry.rb:26:in `parseFile'': This FXSettings * already released
(RuntimeError)


Does anyone see my - or FXRuby''s - mistake?

Regards,
Jannis

On Apr 12, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> When I call reg.Parse now, the ruby interpreter prints out
>      ./Registry.rb:26:in `parseFile'': This FXSettings * already 
> released (RuntimeError)
>
> Does anyone see my - or FXRuby''s - mistake?
Yes; you need to call the base class initialize() method in your 
subclass'' initialize() method, e.g.

	class Registry < FXSettings
		def initialize(aFile)
			super()
			self.mFile = aFile
			self.mDefaults = FXSettings.new
		end
	end

Hope this helps,

Lyle

Lyle Johnson schrieb:
>
> On Apr 12, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>
>> When I call reg.Parse now, the ruby interpreter prints out
>>      ./Registry.rb:26:in `parseFile'': This FXSettings *
already
>> released (RuntimeError)
>>
>> Does anyone see my - or FXRuby''s - mistake?
>
>
> Yes; you need to call the base class initialize() method in your 
> subclass'' initialize() method, e.g.
>
>     class Registry < FXSettings
>         def initialize(aFile)
>             super()
>             self.mFile = aFile
>             self.mDefaults = FXSettings.new
>         end
>     end
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Lyle
...

Thanks very much, what a stupid mistake!

Regards,
Jannis (still banging his head against the table)