From: Laurent Julliard <laurent@...>
Date: 2002-09-09T03:40:41+09:00
Subject: FXRuby: addInput broken on Ruby/Windows?

Today I tried to run a FXRuby app on WIndows for the first time and 
discovered that addinput on Ruby IO objects doesn't work on Windows. 
The same code works ok on Linux. I thought it was a problem im my code 
  but then I tried to run FXRuby inputs.rb example and noticed that it 
doesn't work either on Windows (works ok on Linux).

Then I lokked at the FOX FAQ I found the following note on addInput:

"On MS-Windows, instead of a POSIX file descriptor, you must use a 
handle. Thus, under MS-Windows, the addInput() API can be used to wait 
on a great variety of kernel objects, ranging from event objects 
(which is what you need to use for sockets), to process and thread 
handles, and so on. Please consult the MSDN documentation on Winsock2 
for details"

Looking at the file io.c in Ruby I'm under the impression that even on 
WIn32 Ruby uses POSIX file descriptor for IO objects and not Win32 
handles?

Is my understanding correct? And if so is there a workarounf to make 
addInput on Ruby/Win32?

Thanks for your help

Laurent