From: Arie van Wingerden <apwing@...>
Date: 2006-03-23T00:33:51+09:00
Subject: Noob question about layout in FXRuby

Hi all,

I am new to Ruby as well as FXRuby.
When I tried to dig in, I wrote the next small program (which I derived from 
the FXRuby user's guide).
#====================================================================
require 'fox14'
include Fox
theApp = FXApp.new
theMainWindow = FXMainWindow.new(theApp, 
"Hello",nil,nil,DECOR_ALL,300,300,300,300)
inField = FXTextField.new(theMainWindow,40,nil,0,TEXTFIELD_NORMAL,40,40)
outField = FXTextField.new(theMainWindow,40,nil,0,TEXTFIELD_NORMAL,40,80)
theButton = FXButton.new(theMainWindow, "Hello, 
World!",nil,nil,0,BUTTON_NORMAL,40,60)
theButton.tipText = "Push Me!"
theButton.connect(SEL_COMMAND) do
  outField.text = inField.text
end
FXToolTip.new(theApp)
theApp.create
theMainWindow.show
theApp.run
#====================================================================
My first problem is:
    I use a X and Y coordinate for the 2 textfields and the button, but they 
seem to be ignored. Why?

Second problem:
    the second parameter for FXTextField.new seems to determine the width of 
the field; however, there is also a separate width parameter,
    which doesn't seem to work.What is the difference and how should I use 
them?

Third (question):
    the FXRuby user's guide does some introductory stuff, but then leaves 
all the rest to the programmer. Is there a better, more consistent 
introductory document available?

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