From: Mark Krell <en4cerjoe@...>
Date: 2002-11-08T01:03:34+09:00
Subject: More questions about FXRuby

Greetings,
     I have been working with FXRuby for about a month
now and really like it. There is however the problem
wth documentation.
     Right now for documentation I'm using is the
class index on Fox's homepage. It it a wonderful
resource, but I have found when working with a
particular widget, many methods are poorly documented
and some cases missing all togeather. I doing a
.methods and then comparing what I get to what's
documented. Doing the .methods is good, but using some
of those methods are kind of a shot in the dark. I
only have a method name to go on as a dicription of
the functionality.
     The rdoc docs that come with FXRuby are woefully
incomplete. I find this a major stumbleing block on
this wonderful, stable, cross platform libary. I would
help with the documentaion, but my project plate is a
little full right now. Are there any better and more
well-rounded places to find documentation on Fox?

     I have some misc. questions about getting FXRuby
to bent to my will, so to speek, as I'm having
problems finding the method calls I want.

     1) How do you lock the size of a window?
     2) How do you disable the close window "X" (Or
whatever your window manager uses) in the upper right
corner (or where ever your window manager puts it)  
     3) If you are using FXScrollArea or any of it's
children, like FXTable or FXText, how do you force a
vertical scrollbar to appear? Even, for example if
FXText is blank or FXTable only has one row, even
though it takes up a lage space.
     4) How do you lock the size the the fields in an
FXTable so that the user can't change field sizes?
     5) Can you limit how much text is written in a
line in FXText and force it to word-wrap at so many
characters. (i.e. disable the horazontal scrollbar)

     I'm sure many of these can be done with a single
method call or an argument, but I'm having problems
finding the correct one.
     Thanks.

     -Mark

P.S. On a side note, when my project plate is a little
more empty, I'm thinking of making a FXRuby GUI-maker
using FXRuby. Something like Glade, but leaning more
towards VB. (You click on a button and you get a
window where you can write your method for that event)
 That should make life much more simple for me.

P.P.S Not really an FXRuby thing, but more of an
observation of Fox itself. Redhat is now pushing for a
more unified look for desktops. Not starting a KDE vs.
Gnome debate, I agree with the move. Fox doesn't seem
to be themeable (except for color) and uses a look for
the widgets borrowed from Windows 9x. Anyone know if
this is changing in the future? I would like to have
my apps running with other RH8 apps (for my cutomers)
and not have look so jarring. Any comments on this?



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