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I wrote a simple FXRuby program that displays a message in a window on
the desktop. I would like to make this window go away after a set
amount of time (e.g. 30 minutes if left alone).

I'm new to scripting in Ruby, so I don't know how to do this. Can
anyone offer me any suggestions or pointers as to how I can implement
a configurable timer that will automatically shut down the window when
the time is up?

My program is similar to one of the 'hello' examples on the FXRuby
examples page:
http://www.fxruby.org/doc/examples.html

I've browsed through the Programming Ruby book but I didn't see any
default classes or methods that would help me do this.

On 3/5/07, Paul <> wrote:

> I wrote a simple FXRuby program that displays a message in a window on
> the desktop. I would like to make this window go away after a set
> amount of time (e.g. 30 minutes if left alone).
>
> I'm new to scripting in Ruby, so I don't know how to do this. Can
> anyone offer me any suggestions or pointers as to how I can implement
> a configurable timer that will automatically shut down the window when
> the time is up?

Look at the documentation for the addTimeout() method:

http://www.fxruby.org/doc/api/classes/Fox/FXApp.html

Hope this helps,

Lyle

P.S. Please consider subscribing to the fxruby-users mailing list, and
posting FXRuby-related questions there instead of on ruby-talk. For
more information about the fxruby-users mailing list, see this page:

http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users

On Mar 5, 2:05 pm, "Lyle Johnson" wrote:
>
> Look at the documentation for the addTimeout() method:
[snip]
>
> P.S. Please consider subscribing to the fxruby-users mailing list, and
> posting FXRuby-related questions there instead of on ruby-talk. For
> more information about the fxruby-users mailing list, see this page:
>
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/fxruby-users

Thanks for the link and the mailing list reference, Lyle. I didn't
know about either of those.
That should really help.

Cheers! Paul. =)