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#46088: Since FOX draws it==>s<== own widgets, ...--al anway

 P1.0
22-Dec-10
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#36522: hello.rb
you forget the line
require 'fox16/kwargs'

Helmut Hagemann

xml_user@web.de
great book--Helmut Hagemann

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21-Dec-08
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#31625: The call to Fox::FXMainWindow.new includes the symbols :width and :height. I get an error: wrong argument type Hash (expected Data) (TypeErro...more...
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08-Apr-08
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#31785: Around the middle of the page, where it says "Next, we construct an FXMenuPane window, as a child of the FXMenuBar", it should read, "... as a...more...
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27-Apr-08
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#31846: "In addition to the parent window, we’re going to pass in the LAYOUT_FILL ..." I've been typing the code in as I read the book, and I al...more...
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01-May-08
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#43413: example of creating an input for FXApp with IO.popen("tail -f /var/log/system.log") should be: app.addInput(@pipe, INPUT_READ) do # re...more...
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22-May-10
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#32238: On p. 87, "SCROLLOCK" should be SCROLLLOCK" (i.e. 3 "L"s).--Lyle Johnson

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31-May-08
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#31810: In Figure 8.4, the bottom two labels read "Sunken and Thick Frame", whereas it actually is raised with a thick frame, and "Raised and Thick Fr...more...
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29-Apr-08
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#46089: A spanning item is one that takes up more tha==>t<== one position in the table. (n)--al anway

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22-Dec-10
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#46090: ...FXTable widget, which ==>we'll look at<== in Section 9.4,... (we looked at)--al anway

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22-Dec-10
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#46091: ..., the first child of the ==>FXS-plitter<== appears (bad hyphenation at line end)--al anway

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22-Dec-10
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#46092: It's considerate to save the sizes of the subpanels ==>to the registry<== (isn't there a move afoot to save configuration info in separate app...more...
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22-Dec-10
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#46093: Inconsistency: "Source ==>T<==ext" occurs on pages 181-184 in several places, while the counterpart string "Translated ==>t<==ext" has differe...more...
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22-Dec-10
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#46094: ... are just a couple ==>(of)<== examples of the possible...--al anway

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22-Dec-10
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#46095: Once the user is finished ... and has made ==>their<== selection (his or her is more grammatical).--al anway

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22-Dec-10
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#46096: ... displaying it to the user to collect ==>their<== inputs, ... (his or her is more grammatical)--al anway

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22-Dec-10
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#46097: ... with other software developers.==>(space needed)<==Section 1.4, ...--al anway

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22-Dec-10

Stuff To Be Considered in the Next Edition

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#30449: I am just so far as page 26, but I searched for more occurrences of the Photo and Album attribute :title and it's just on that page. Don't yo...more...
 B1.0
11-Jan-08