[fxruby-users] setting widget attributes

[Lyle Johnson]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Mark Volkmann wrote:

> However, if I do this
>
> self.visibleRows = 5
>
> then it does.
>
> Shouldn't it work without "self."?

Nope, and this is a Ruby thing (not particular to FXRuby, I mean). When 
you do:

	visibleRows = 5

Ruby assumes that you're initializing a local variable. You only invoke 
the accessor method for the visibleRows attribute when you prepend it 
with self (as you've discovered).