From: Jos Backus <josb@...>
Date: 2002-02-09T04:07:49+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby: how to create a static status line?

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:45:20AM +0900, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> I hope I'm not over-simplifying what you're asking for, but if you just want
> a static message line along the bottom of the window, why not just use a
> regular FXLabel?

That's a good idea, but I would still need some kind of container because I
need multiple FXLabel's in the status area: one for the "last" message (``Log
saved to foo'', etc.) and another one (on the far bottom right) for the number
of log entries. What kind of container should I use instead of FXStatusbar?

Another question while I am here: is there a way to detect whether the Enter
key was pressed in an FXTextField? Right now I'm doing

        FXLabel.new(commentframe, "Comments:")
        @comment = FXTextField.new(commentframe, 60, nil, 0)
        @comment.connect(SEL_UPDATE) {
            unless @comment.text.empty?
                addevent
            end
        }

which mostly works. I tried using SEL_COMMAND instead but every time I click
some button in my script this block is called also. Since the button also
causes addevent to be called I end up with two events, whereas I really only
want this block to be called when I hit Enter.

My apologies for being dense; if somebody writes a book on FXRuby I'll buy it
right away.

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