[fxruby-users] FXMenuBar.new(self) raises ArgumentError

[Lyle Johnson]

On Mar 27, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

>
> I've been away from FXRuby code for a while, and was surprised that
>
>     mb = FXMenuBar.new(self)
>
> which used to work (in 1.2 I guess) now in 1.4 causes this:
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>   No matching function for overloaded 'new_FXMenuBar' (ArgumentError)
>
> It was easily fixed with:
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>     mb = FXMenuBar.new(self, LAYOUT_SIDE_TOP|LAYOUT_FILL_X)
>
> But it seems like FXMenuBar.new should have a default that works. Not a
> big issue though...

That changed in FOX 1.4, although I don't know the reasoning for the 
change. I made the same change in FXRuby to keep the APIs consistent, 
but I agree that I should have provided for some kind of backwards 
compatibility there (even if FOX didn't).