fxruby users - Dec 2005 - FxTopWindow problem

I have an fxRuby GUI app that I am having problems with. I want to bring up a
help window from the main window when someone selects a help/help from the help
menu. I have created a helpWindow that inherits from FXDialogBox. It has an
FXMenuBar, FXStatusBar, and an FXtext which gets filled with help text from a
file. When the help/help menu is selected from the main window, I make a new
helpWindow, and call create on it. This all seems to work well, but I was
unhappy with the look and feel of the FXDialog. I basically wanted something
that looked like a real window, with minimize, restore, and close boxes in the
upper right, and windowy ( if that''s a word ) border.
  I tried using FXMainWindow, FXTopWindow, and FXWindow, but I am again faced
with my arch nemesis of error messages:
  "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual
way.
Please contact the application''s support team for more
information.
>Exit code: 3"
  I have gotten this is the past when I tried to use something that was not
created yet, but I think I am creating everything this time. It is extremely
frustrating that I can get the FXDialog, with identical code, to work just fine.
   
  Is there something special about FXTopWindow that requires some special
considerations. I couldn''t find any examples or mentions in the docs
about using this. The description is of this function is a bit brief.

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boxofsoxx-goognews at yahoo.com wrote:
> I have an fxRuby GUI app that I am having problems with. I want to
> bring up a help window from the main window when someone selects a
> help/help from the help menu. I have created a helpWindow that
> inherits from FXDialogBox. It has an FXMenuBar, FXStatusBar, and an
> FXtext which gets filled with help text from a file. When the
> help/help menu is selected from the main window, I make a new
> helpWindow, and call create on it. This all seems to work well, but I
> was unhappy with the look and feel of the FXDialog. I basically
> wanted something that looked like a real window, with minimize,
> restore, and close boxes in the upper right, and windowy ( if
that''s
It should be possible to get these window decorations by passing the
right opts argument when you instantiate the dialog, something like

FXDialogBox.new(owner, window_name, DECOR_ALL ^ DECOR_RESIZE)

(In this case, resize is turned off, but you may not want that.)
> a word ) border. I tried using FXMainWindow, FXTopWindow, and
> FXWindow, but I am again faced with my arch nemesis of error
> messages: "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it
> in an unusual way. Please contact the application''s support team
for
> more information.
FXMainWindow would be the one to use, but I''ve never tried having
multiple main windows. I got used to using FXDialogs with the old fox
versions, before that was possible.
>> Exit code: 3"
> 
> I have gotten this is the past when I tried to use something that was
> not created yet, but I think I am creating everything this time. It
> is extremely frustrating that I can get the FXDialog, with identical
> code, to work just fine.
> 
> Is there something special about FXTopWindow that requires some
> special considerations. I couldn''t find any examples or mentions
in
> the docs about using this. The description is of this function is a
> bit brief.


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