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On May 17, 2008, at 6:54 AM, David Toll wrote: > I tried to submit the following message to the "fxruby-users" > message board (I clicked the link to send it as an email to fxruby-users at rubyforge.org > , but the message did not appear). I conclude I do not know how to > submit questions to this message board. You need to be subscribed to the mailing list before you

All, As some of you may have heard, the default gem hosting repository will soon transition away from RubyForge.org to a new site, RubyGems.org (aka Gemcutter.org). Coincident with this transition will be a gradual (?) phasing out of other RubyForge services, which I''ve written about here: http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2009/10/26/wait-what-was-that-last-bit/ As I write near the

All, FXRuby version 1.6.15 is now available for download from this page: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=300&release_id=22658 Note that if you''re building FXRuby from source, you should be using FOX 1.6.16 or later due to some important changes made in that release of FOX. For a summary of the changes in this release of FXRuby, please see this page:

All, Due to a number of recent bug reports regarding FXRuby''s compatibility with JRuby, I feel like I need to clear something up, and that''s that FXRuby will never (well, "almost certainly never") work with JRuby. This problem isn''t unique to FXRuby; it''s true for any C/C++-based Ruby extension. See this page:

InfoQ has just published Werner Schuster''s interview with me, in which we discuss the FOX toolkit and FXRuby''s implementation: http://www.infoq.com/articles/johnson-fxruby-book-excerpt The article also includes an exclusive sample chapter from the new book, "FXRuby: Create Lean and Mean GUIs with Ruby". To read more about the book, please see its web page at the

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

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.

Is there a way to make an FXTable''s column widths (and row heights) unchangeable by the user? By experimentation it looks to me like leaving out TABLE_COL_SIZABLE and TABLE_ROW_SIZABLE from the options field in FXTable.new() has no effect. I can still drag the intersection between two column heading buttons to change the column width. The code I''m using to test this is

All, A couple of new build platforms have come into the picture since the last FXRuby release and I''m trying to make sure they''re supported. That is to say, I want to be able to provide precompiled binary gems so that users on those platforms don''t have to build everything from source. I think I''m there, but I could use your help testing if you have

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

I have a ruby program that uses a FXCanvas, and I have attached a FXDCWindow to control it. It lets me draw lines, rectangles and ellipses, but not text. If I attempt to draw text, I get the following error 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 also get this

When I empty and refill an FXTable multiple times with a large data set (10,000 rows x 1 column in the example below, around 1000 rows x 6 columns in a more complicated app), the application eventually fails with a segmentation fault. The number of repetitions required to produce the segfault is rather random, ranging from just a couple reps to 15 or 20 in some trials. The program disappears

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 using ruby *1.8.4* (2005-12-24). I added this code: #define RARRAY_LEN(a) \ ((RBASIC(a)->flags & RARRAY_EMBED_FLAG) ? \ (long)((RBASIC(a)->flags >> RARRAY_EMBED_LEN_SHIFT) & \ (RARRAY_EMBED_LEN_MASK >> RARRAY_EMBED_LEN_SHIFT)) : \ RARRAY(a)->as.heap.len) #define RARRAY_PTR(a) \ ((RBASIC(a)->flags & RARRAY_EMBED_FLAG) ? \

Cross-posted to the blog (at http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2010/08/04/moving-on/): When Jamis Buck wrote last year about ceasing development on Capistrano, his post really struck a chord with me. If this post reminds you of that one, it''s because I re-read it before sitting down to compose this one. It was the next best thing to having Jamis on hand to give me a pep talk before I had to

The default behavior of FXListBox seems to be to grow and shrink in width depending on the length of the selected entry in the list. This is a problem when the list contains items of varying width, because if a short item is picked then the longer entries are obscured in the drop-down list. Is this deliberate, an oversight, or a bug? Its certainly not how I''d choose it to act. Is

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, 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

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

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 =