From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-09-18T07:06:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Defining a Method

On 9/17/07, Dave Mccormick <mac@mackrackit.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Ruby from basic.  I am having a hard time getting my head
> around the "def".
>
> I have an Entry widget for a number, a label widget for the answer,
> button widget to multiply entry by 2 and place in Label.
>
> I know this should/is simple, but cannot seem to get started.
>
> Here is the messed up code that I have, would someone tell me what to
> do?
>
> Thank you,
> Dave
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> require 'gtk2'
>
> window =Gtk::Window.new
> window.signal_connect("delete_event") do
> Gtk.main_quit
> false
> end
>
>
> box1 = Gtk::HBox.new(false, 0)
> window.add(box1)
>
> buttonE = Gtk::Button.new("Exit")
> buttonE.signal_connect("clicked")do
> Gtk.main_quit
> false
> end
>
> box1.pack_start(buttonE, false, false, 10)
>
>
> buttonC = Gtk::Button.new("Click")
> buttonC.signal_connect("clicked") {
> label.text=(entry.text.to_f * 2).to_s
> }
>
>
> box1.pack_start(buttonC, true, true, 10)
>
> label = Gtk::Label.new("LABEL")
> box1.pack_start(label, true, true, 10)
>
> entry = Gtk::Entry.new
> entry.set_max_length( 50 )
> box1.pack_start(entry, true, true, 10)
>
>
>
> window.border_width = 100
> window.show_all
> Gtk.main

I suspect that the first problem is that a the point you invoke:

 buttonC.signal_connect("clicked") {
   label.text=(entry.text.to_f * 2).to_s
 }

the variable label has not yet been defined in the outer scope.

Try moving this until someplace after you initialize the label variable
-- 
Rick DeNatale

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