[wxruby-users] embedding wxruby?

Niklas Baumstark niklas.baumstark at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 15 08:02:26 EDT 2008


Hello,

Alex Fenton <alex at pressure.to> wrote:
> 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).
> >>     
> >
> > 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 ;)

I'll try to. thank you for the information.

> >> Happy to help further but may be better to follow-up on the wxruby-dev 
> >> list as this is fairly technical....
> >>     
> >
> > 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.

Yeah it's working now. I will ask future questions on this subjects on the dev mailing list.

Greetings,
Niklas
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