From: Richard Lionheart <NoOne@...>
Date: 2004-05-24T05:04:10+09:00
Subject: FXRuby design questions

Hi,

I just started working through FXRuby examples  and have a couple of
questions about http://www.fxruby.org/examples/hello2.rb , whuich provides a
nice ToolTip demo:

1.  The syntax of the "FXPNGIcon.new(application, f.read)" statement would
lead me to think the icon is being attached to the application (e.g., for
purpose of displaying the app in an OS' toolbar when it runs,  perhaps)
rather than in the application's FXMainWindow instance.  I'd expect it to
have a "main" argument explicitly naming the window to which it should be
attached, as FxButton.new does.

2.  FXTooltip.new's failure to name any particular object leads me to think
it should wire a tooltip into every object in the application (or rather,
the app's main window?) that's built to generate a tooltip,  and that the
tooltip text is to be gotten from each such object's caption text (using
everything following the first tab.)

The documentation I found for these classes on FXRuby.org | API Reference
Docs doesn't address these issues (yet).  Understanding them would help me
(and others,  I imagine) use the good-looking GUI package more effectively.

I had originally addressed this question to Hal Fulton, who said he'd post
it on a lightly use FXRuby mail list.  I couldn't find any newsgroup that
mirrored this list (as giganews.com does for this list),  so I decided to
post the question here.

Any comments would be appreciated,  even those that think this is a
worthless set of questions :-)

TIA,
Richard



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