Forum: wxRuby Documentation morass

I am having a horrible time finding data that I need to learn ruby and
wxruby.   I even downloaded the source in order to try to use the 
Windows
Search tools on it.

For Instance, the printing.rb sample starts with
       WXPRINT_QUIT = WX::ID_EXIT
Using Windows to search the supposed source I do not find any string 
ID_EXIT
in any file.

Later in the printing.rb sample one finds the following code snippet

--------------------------------
 # GetTextExtent demo:
    words = ["This ", "is ", "GetTextExtent ", "testing ", "string. ",
"Enjoy ", "it!"]
    w, h = 0,0
    x = 200
    y= 250
    fnt = Wx::Font.new(15, Wx::SWISS, Wx::NORMAL, Wx::NORMAL)
------------------------------------------------------------
Once again a constant Wx::SWISS is not found by the windows search 
engine.

I may have the wrong source.  Where do I get the right source?

Looking at the documentation on line is very frustrating.   Can this
documentation by downloaded and read with some tool?

Later

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Am 24.05.2011 17:31, schrieb Ann Maybury:
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>
> I may have the wrong source.  Where do I get the right source?
>
> Looking at the documentation on line is very frustrating.   Can this
> documentation by downloaded and read with some tool?
>
> Later
>

At least the documentation for the Font constants can be found in the
online docs: http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/font.html (right at the 
top).
Regarding the various ID_* constants you can do this (assuming Ruby 
1.9):

ruby -rwx -e 'puts Wx.constants.map(&:to_s).grep(/^ID_/).sort'

This will get you a complete and alphabetically ordered list of all ID_*
constants defined. Usually their meaning is guessable from the name.

Vale,
Marvin
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Hi,

2011/5/24 Ann Maybury <ann.maybury@gmail.com>:
> I am having a horrible time finding data that I need to learn ruby and
> wxruby. I even downloaded the source in order to try to use the Windows
> Search tools on it.
>
> For Instance, the printing.rb sample starts with
>  WXPRINT_QUIT = WX::ID_EXIT
> Using Windows to search the supposed source I do not find any string ID_EXIT
> in any file.

Most wxRuby definitions (classes, constants) come from wxWidgets C++
source code.
So you will not see them as Ruby definitions in .rb files.
SWIG is the glue that makes C++ definitions appears as Ruby definitions.
So you need to look for C++ header files included in SWIG interface 
files (.i).

> Looking at the documentation on line is very frustrating. Can this
> documentation by downloaded and read with some tool?

The HTML documentation can be downloaded from the rubyforge site :
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=35

Cheers,
Chauk-Mean