similar to: FXPNGIcon.new not working

Hi: After strugling trying to get an email to this formum, I discovered that I had to add png support before compiling fox-1.6.20. Once I downloaded the library compiled and installed it, everything worked fine. By the way the url on the link at the fox tool-kit site for the png library is incorrect. The right url is: http://www.fox-toolkit.org/ftp/libpng-1.2.8.tar.bz2 Thanks, Ernie

Hi Ernest, I''m cc''ing the win32utils-devel mailing list in case anyone has any ideas. --- Ernest Ellingson <erne at powernav.com> wrote: > Daniel Berger wrote: > > >Hi Ernest, > > > >Me again. I just realized that it''s just a bug in > my > >documentation (duh). You can pass arguments to the > >Service.start method.

Hello, I am a newbie to FXRuby development. I like the fact that I can write the code in Ruby for cross-platform GUI development. I am developing a desktop application that needs to save some information to a database. I am using ActiveRecord for this purpose. My code works fine when I don''t require fox16 and include Fox. But once I do that I get a bunch of warnings. Here is the sample

Hi -- I just got your book FXRuby and am trying to get it working on Leopard -- I had no problems getting it to work on Vista or Ubuntu but when I tried to follow the post on your blog for Leopard I got the following error -- I don''t know enough about Leopard or Ruby for that matter to troubleshoot this myself so I was hoping someone may have run into this before and can offer a solution.

On 2/2/07, Zane <zcvohland at gmail.com> wrote: > I have spent a couple of days trying to get the Fox GUI library to > interact with ruby. Now I think I am getting close. Before I go on to > explain my problem here is some information that may be necessary... <snip> > Software Versions: > ---------------------- > Ruby 1.8.1 Just curious: Why still running Ruby

I built fxruby-1.6.19 in win32 using msys + mingw tools. The process of doing it is ok and generate a file fox16.so in the directory ext\fox16. But when i require ''fox16'', it fails to work. it reports that "LoadError: 127. The specified procedure could not be found . - Init_fox16 C:/ruby_1.9.1/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/i386-msvcrt/fox16.so ". how can i

On May 17, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Janos Sebok wrote: > Hi all. > > I am new to FxRuby, and trying to install the toolkit. > > I''m running winXP > >ruby -v > ruby 1.9.1p0 (2009-01-30 revision 21907) [i386-mswin32] > > >gem -v > 1.3.3 > > >gem list > > *** LOCAL GEMS *** > > fxruby (1.6.19) > rubygems-update (1.3.3) > > --- >

I want to display an arrow in the user interface between 2 GUI Components. I think I know how I can do it, but I ran into a problem displaying pixel images with transparent background. I describe this image display problem here and ask for advice. but if someone knows of a different and easier way to display arrows, please tell me. Example Problem: I want a FXHorizontalFrame to contain, from

Hi Which is the most stable version of FXRuby that can be used with ruby 1.8.7 (2008-05-31 patchlevel 0)? I am having lots of trouble installing fxruby using gem. root at at91sam9263ek:~$ gem install fxruby-1.6.19.gem Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing fxruby-1.6.19.gem: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/local/bin/ruby

Hello, I have started learning FXRuby about 2 weeks ago. Now I''m trying to launch the scintilla_test.rb from the fxruby-1.6 installation directory (/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.16/examples) and get this error: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/fxruby-1.6.16/lib/fox16/kwargs.rb:2007:in `old_initialize'': wrong number of arguments (8 for 0) (ArgumentError) from

Since a week or so I am getting this error in a program which has been running fine for 6 months or so. I have a hard time running debug on this error and finding the cause. As it seems that the error is in the middle of fxruby and not in my application. I click on button1 - the first time every works perfect. Handling the next record, pressing button1 leads to this error. Any help is

Lyle, Following up on your suggestion... "You might want to follow-up on the fxruby-users mailing list at some point; sometimes FXRuby questions can get lost in the shuffle here due to the high volume of messages on ruby-talk!'' I''ve installed libfox-1.6-dev, and after that attempted install of fxruby, with this result: $ sudo gem install fxruby [sudo] password for

I saw Jeroen''s suggestion on how to use FXSplashWindow on the foxgui-users list and thought I''d try it. My attempt was as follows: require ''fox16'' include Fox app = FXApp.new("App") icon = nil File.open(''icon.gif'', ''rb'') { |f| icon = FXGIFIcon.new(app, f.read) } splash =

Hi, folks. I''m trying to make a toolbar with buttons that change appearance when hovered over with the mouse. The docs on FXButton say that using BUTTON_TOOLBAR "causes the edge of the button to be raised when the cursor moves over it." What I''m getting is buttons without any frame, but they do not change appearance when the cursor moves over them. I''m

We have been using Ruby 1.8.6 and FXRuby 1.6.16 under Windows, from the old one step installer. The following code takes less than a second to load and execute on my five-year old Windows XP PC. puts ''Starting'' require ''fox16'' puts ''Done'' With Ruby 1.9.3 and FXRuby 1.6.23, it takes 12 or more seconds. Both tests are with all files on

Hi all, I''m trying to get text on to the screen in response to pressing a button. This code doesn''t work, and I don''t know why. My puts command says that the window is shown, but it''s not displayed. Also, it seems to me that there should be an easier way to get text on a screen in response to pressing a button. Any hints? Thanks! Marlene require

Hi all, I''m trying to install fxruby 1.6.11 on my machine, but I obtain this error: [luca at mobilebox ~]$ sudo gem install fxruby Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: While executing gem ... (RuntimeError) Error instaling fxruby: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. ruby extconf.rb install fxruby checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for

In the sample program below I have a form of 6 text fields, in a scrolling window, followed by a row of function buttons. Problems: 1) For data entry purposes I''d like the function buttons NOT to be entered by pressing Tab keys, and retain their ''clickability'', but when the user Tab''s out of the last scrolling field (postcode) to have the form scroll to the

Hi, I''m using FXRuby 1.6.13 under Windows XP / Ruby 1.8.6. I''ve noticed something strange when copying-pasting things between FXTable cells, and FXTextfields. ---------------------------------------------- 1) When copying the content of an FXTextfield, and pasting it into an FXTable cell, everything works fine. 2) When selecting an FXTable cell, issuing a "copy"

I am trying to create a Graphical User Interface for a Vorbis Player under MS Visual C++ 6.0 I was initially trting to use the code from decoder_example.c but I keep getting linker errors. I have set up my project as told to by James Boer on this mailing list. This is as follows: This document was prepared from an email received from James Boer on the Ogg Vorbis mailing list. It gives a