[wxruby-users] WX::Dialog won't close

[Glen Holcomb]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:

> Hi Glen
>
> Glen Holcomb wrote:
>
>  It would appear that the only instruction that doesn't run at the end of
>> on_okay is close, exit works fine.  This kind of blows, I suppose I'll have
>> to start another instance of the app and exit after the populate finishes,
>> not the cleanest solution.
>>
>
> I'm sure you won't need to do this.
>
> Generally, if you want help, please reduce the code to a standalone,
> runnable, and ideally short sample. I'm very happy to help, but it's too
> much to expect people to install extra libraries and second-guess what the
> rest of your app is doing.
>
> I did try running your code, pruned of the LDAP stuff. It seems fine to me
> - there's nothing in the dialog layout itself. I would suggest checking that
> the dialog has an explicit parent, not nil - it is better in most cases that
> the dialog is linked to a parent frame. In the special case that an
> application consists only of a single dialog, you must use Dialog#destroy to
> end the app, close is not sufficient.
>
> If this doesn't help, I would look further into net/ldap and see whether
> this is causing it to hang - ie, if ok does nothing but 'close' does it work
> fine?
>
> cheers
>
> alex
>
>
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Hey Alex,

Thanks for the reply, destroy did the trick.  I don't know why I didn't try
that before, according to my browser I'd looked at the method definition in
the API docs.  Odd that close doesn't work, I'm creating this dialog the
same way I do all my others and close works for them.

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