fxruby users - Jul 2010 - Where is the documentation?

I am getting frustrated with the lack of documentation with respect to FXRuby.

Even the FOX documentation seems to be lacking.

So, for instance, in http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXTable.html we
see:
  setColumnWidth(column, columnWidth)

What unit is columnWidth in?  I presume pixels ... sigh.

Is there better documentation anywhere else?

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs at dos32.com>
wrote:
> What unit is columnWidth in? ?I presume pixels ... sigh.
I think you can safely assume that the units of measurement for most
things onscreen are pixels.
> Is there better documentation anywhere else?
There''s not a lot of documentation, but this page at the FXRuby site
offers a few leads:

    http://www.fxruby.org/documentation.html

Specifically, there''s a book, some tutorials, and a community Wiki
site.

Hope this helps,

Lyle

Lyle,

Monday, July 19, 2010, 12:40:55 PM, you wrote:

LJ> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs at
dos32.com> wrote:
>> What unit is columnWidth in?  I presume pixels ... sigh.
LJ> I think you can safely assume that the units of measurement for most
LJ> things onscreen are pixels.
>> Is there better documentation anywhere else?
LJ> There''s not a lot of documentation, but this page at the FXRuby
site
LJ> offers a few leads:

LJ>     http://www.fxruby.org/documentation.html

LJ> Specifically, there''s a book, some tutorials, and a community
Wiki site.

I bought the electronic version of your book, Lyle, and I quote from it:

  Online Documentation
  Despite rumors to the contrary, there is actually a good deal of online
  documentation for both FOX and FXRuby, if you know where to look
  for it.

So ... which is it: "There''s not a lot of documentation" or
there is a good deal of online documentation?

- - -

Lyle, you wrote a great book (Yes he did, Folks!)... but even offhand comments
like the one I quoted from your book, above, can cause people to make
assumptions and investments that they might not otherwise make.

My two cents (if it matters):

  The documentation for Fox and FXRuby may not be 100% the best, however I
have found very few things that I was not able to figure out from the
documentation alone. The FXRuby rdoc is very helpful, and the Fox
documentation is very helpful as well. Occasionally I''ve had to hunt
through
the Fox source code to figure something out, or write a quick little test
"app", but that''s only happened but a handful of times out of
many different
things I''ve done with FXRuby. And when you compare the documentation of
FXRuby to other libraries documentation, you can hardly say it''s not
documented well enough.

  Ralph,
    What exactly is the problem? What do you feel is lacking in the
documentation? (Saying the documentation sucks doesn''t help anyone
correct
the problem, you have to be a little more specific.) And of course, what
exactly is it that you need help with? I can assure you that if you have a
question and someone on this list knows the answer they will most likely be
happy to help you. :)

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs at dos32.com>
wrote:
> Lyle,
>
> Monday, July 19, 2010, 12:40:55 PM, you wrote:
>
> LJ> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs at
dos32.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> What unit is columnWidth in?  I presume pixels ... sigh.
>
> LJ> I think you can safely assume that the units of measurement for most
> LJ> things onscreen are pixels.
>
> >> Is there better documentation anywhere else?
>
> LJ> There''s not a lot of documentation, but this page at the
FXRuby site
> LJ> offers a few leads:
>
> LJ>     http://www.fxruby.org/documentation.html
>
> LJ> Specifically, there''s a book, some tutorials, and a
community Wiki
> site.
>
> I bought the electronic version of your book, Lyle, and I quote from it:
>
>  Online Documentation
>  Despite rumors to the contrary, there is actually a good deal of online
>  documentation for both FOX and FXRuby, if you know where to look
>  for it.
>
> So ... which is it: "There''s not a lot of documentation"
or there is a good
> deal of online documentation?
>
> - - -
>
> Lyle, you wrote a great book (Yes he did, Folks!)... but even offhand
> comments like the one I quoted from your book, above, can cause people to
> make assumptions and investments that they might not otherwise make.
>
>
>
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On 7/19/10, Ralph Shnelvar <ralphs at dos32.com>
wrote:
> I am getting frustrated with the lack of documentation with respect to
FXRuby.
>
>  Even the FOX documentation seems to be lacking.
>
>  So, for instance, in
http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXTable.html we see:
>   setColumnWidth(column, columnWidth)
>
>  What unit is columnWidth in?  I presume pixels ... sigh.
>
>  Is there better documentation anywhere else?
>
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