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When you're running it under Ruby 1.9.1 (which OS?), the buttons.rb program crashes on exit.

This solution requires patching FOX (replacing the implementation of getFocusWindow()) and that's something we need to avoid. Need to come up with an alternativ...

Ryan Melton added the following:

Here's the fix, the issue turned out to be very complicated related to how ruby handles the stack frames of its threads. In sum...

Original submitter wrote:

"I’ve been experiencing a strange crash that involves using FXMessageBox, and having another thread that is interacting with a socket....

I have the following program, named hello.rb (you may recognise this - it is on page 15 of the FXRuby book):

require 'fox16' 
app = Fox::FXApp.new 
main = Fox:...

Removing the SPLASH_OWNS_ICON option seems to help, but still not sure what's causing the crash.

I have a problem closing an FXRuby program (attached) running on windows XP and Vista. I am running ruby 186.25 installed with
the one click installer that come...

Philippe Lang added:

I'm not using the FXShutter widget myself, so I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, but I have just run the FXShutter example here and I ...

A user reports:

FXShutter doesn't work properly under Vista. When you click on the various shutter items, it just flicks from one item to the next without the s...

A user reports:

I wrote a GUI using FXRuby under WinXP. I then upgraded to Vista, installed Ruby (and thus by default FXRuby) and ran my GUI. It was then that I...

Added a test for this, which passes on Mac OS X. Will try on Windows.

Tim Smith added that:

FXComboTableItem#fillItems seg-faults for me in the following code on WinXP, Ruby 1.8.6, FXRuby 1.6.14. appendItem does not seg-fault.

ap...

Lyle added:

Anecdotal evidence (i.e. a subsequent bug report from Ernst Tanaka) confirms that something about the FXComboBox#fillItems method is broken.

Lyle replied:

Jason, I'm having trouble reproducing this one. Which operating system are you FXRuby running on?

Here's my system:

Arch Linux x86_64, kernel 2.6.31.5
Ruby 1.9.1p243 (2009-07-16 revision 24175) [x86_64-linux]
FXRuby 1.6.19
Fox Toolkit 1.6.36-2

If any other d...

When creating an FXRuby program using the hello world tutorial, the window does not appear at all, but an entry for it does appear on the task manager. When add...

Original submitter replied:

I made the changes you suggested and I don't see any warnings now. Earlier I also used to get a warning from rscribd gem code when I...

Since they are warning messages, they shouldn't be causing your program to fail (you just get a lot of noise in the console window). But I have a guess of what ...

I am developing a desktop application that needs to save some information to a database. I am using ActiveRecord for this purpose. My code works fine when I don...

I need to replace the "Getting the Sources from Subversion" section of the User's Guide with a pointer to the relevant GitHub wiki pages.

I need to update the "History and Goals" page in the User's Guide to mention the release of the FXRuby book in 2008.

I need to update the "Information Sources" section of the Users' Guide to mention the FXRuby book.

I need to update the OpenGL section of the User's Guide to point them towards the now-available ruby-opengl gem instead of downloading the sources for that exte...

There seems to be a bug in the imageviewer.rb example program, in that some (all?) image manipulations aren't applied
immediately. For example, start the imagev...

Need to first extend the build process so that we can cross-compile FXRuby binaries for MinGW on Linux or OS X hosts, then see what additionally must be done to...