wxruby users - Apr 2008 - MediaCtrl with no parent?

Hiyas, I''m trying to make a mediactrl with no parent or with my
application as the parent, so it can play music in the background (I''m
making a simple alarm app), but I cant seem to get it workin. Any ideas
or does it need to have a frame as a parent?
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Ryan Lewis wrote:
> Hiyas, I''m trying to make a mediactrl with no parent or with my
> application as the parent, so it can play music in the background
(I''m
> making a simple alarm app), but I cant seem to get it workin. Any ideas
> or does it need to have a frame as a parent?
>   
Yes. Only descendants of Wx::TopLevelWindow - either Frames or Dialogs - 
can have no parent. Any other Wx::Window has to have a valid parent.

If you want to show no Frame at all, just use Frame#hide.

If you want a minimal frame, you could use Wx::MiniFrame or perhaps a 
shaped frame - there is an example of the latter in bigdemo.rb.

alex