Creating corrent menuitems with xrcise

Desktop wxRuby
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Hi List,

actually I’m trying to generate my UI with wxFormBuilder. But I
haven’t managed to create correct plattform-independent Quit- and
About-Menuitem with the correct IDs (Wx::ID_EXIT, Wx::ID_ABOUT). Can
anyone tell me how to do this?

Everything I tried so far leads to not working menu items or false
menu items in i.e. Mac OS.

Regards,
Timo

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Timo S. wrote:

actually I’m trying to generate my UI with wxFormBuilder. But I
haven’t managed to create correct plattform-independent Quit- and
About-Menuitem with the correct IDs (Wx::ID_EXIT, Wx::ID_ABOUT). Can
anyone tell me how to do this?

I haven’t used wxFormBuilder. But looking at the screenshots, there is a
box in a panel on the right-hand side called “Object Properties”. At the
top of the yellow tinted section in this list of properties, there is an
entry called “id” which I guess has the default value “wxID_ANY”. To use
one of the standard ids, change this to wxID_EXIT, wxID_ABOUT.

Generally to map from C++ constant and class names to Ruby, replace the
preceding wx (lower case) with Wx:: (module name).

C++ -> Ruby
wxWindow -> Wx::Window
wxID_EXIT -> Wx::ID_EXIT

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Hey guys,

Sorry, been busy with RL. Actually, you just need to define wxID_EXIT,
and
wxID_ABOUT in the wxFormBuilder. On the Ruby side, you need to use
Wx::ID_EXIT and Wx::ID_ABOUT to catch it. This is cause of the naming
conventions, and how Ruby doesn’t allow constants to be formed with a
lowercase first letter. EG: All constants, classes, and modules need to
start their first character as an Uppercase letter. Ruby will throw a
tissy
fit when you don’t do this.

Again, sorry for the late reply.