[wxruby-users] embedding wxruby?

[Alex Fenton]

Niklas Baumstark wrote:
>>
>> You will in some way need to link the wx C++ App object to a ruby 
>> instance and make it a constant (like Wx::THE_APP in wxRuby). Having the 
>> App as a constant is the link that wxRuby uses to protect long-lived C++ 
>> objects like Windows from Ruby's garbage collection (see mark_wxApp).
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> OK, this is more sophisticated than i need it. i just need to wrap a wxPanel, because the main interface is managed by C++.
>   

OK, but to avoid leaks, or crashes from prematurely deleted objects, you 
will need some sort of memory management strategy. It gets quite 
complicated but most of the work is done ;)


>> Happy to help further but may be better to follow-up on the wxruby-dev 
>> list as this is fairly technical....
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> I would like to, but i can't subscribe to it properly. It says 403 when i want to confirm the subscription :( at least it did yesterday.
>   

Just tried it and it seems to be working. If clicking on the link from 
the email make sure the URL isn't truncated as it contains an 
authentication string.

alex