From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2004-06-06T23:40:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Elementary FXDialogBox query

Referencing an FXTextField directly should se the FXTextField class.

FXTextFields have the read/write property 'text' that holds a string
representation of the information in the text field.

When you reference an FXTextField directly, but then call it's 'to_s'
method, it will give you the same value as it's text property.

Here's some sample code to show that...

def handle_change_in_text_field(sen,sel,data)
    puts "The text field now holds "+data+" in it's 'text' property"
end

@user_input=FXTextField.new(parent_container,50)
@user_input.text="Please put your name here"
@user_input.connect(SEL_COMMAND,method(:handle_change_in_text_field))

-Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Wilkinson" <nigel@waspz.co.uk>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Cc: "Lyle Johnson" <lyle@knology.net>; <fxruby-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: Elementary FXDialogBox query


>
> --On Sunday, June 06, 2004 03:51:52 +0900 Lyle Johnson <lyle@knology.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jun 5, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Nigel Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to use a dialog box in FXRuby.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Umm, no. You don't call execute() on the dialog box while you're still
> > constructing it. Try something like this instead:
> >
> > class AddItemDialog < FXDialogBox
> > # Add an accessor so we can get to the text field later
> > attr_accessor :textField
> >
> > def initialize(owner)
> > ... as before, but...
> > @textField = FXTextField.new(...)
> > end
> > def create
> > ... as before ...
> > end
> > end
> >
> > and then invoke it like this:
> >
> > theDialog = AddItemDialog.new(someWindow)
> > if theDialog.execute != 0
> > puts theDialog.textField
> > end
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Lyle
> >
>
> Thanks, I've now got it working. Out of curiosity what class does
> theDialog.textField return as I have had to use theDialog.textField.to_s
to
> use it as a string.
>
> Cheers
> Nigel
>