# Re: FXRuby - textedit.rb example crash problem

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 3, 2006, 10:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-fxruby-textedit-rb-example-crash-problem/95492 "2006-06-03T10:02:23Z")\
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> I am writing a GUI. I need some bigger subfield with an editor in  
> it. So I tried to incorporate the textedit.rb example  
> (FXRuby-1.6.0,fox-1.4.33,Ruby 1.8.4).

FXRuby 1.6 requires FOX 1.6.5 or later and won’t work with FOX 1.4.33.  
I’m a little curious about how you managed to compile FXRuby-1.6.0  
against fox-1.4.33 in the first place…

You’re right, I realize just now that I should have upgraded FOX in the  
first place. Yet the installation just worked using configure-make-make  
install  
for FOX and ruby setup.rb config etc.

I only upgraded in the first place because when I use FXRuby, I  
quite frequently get Segmentation faults under Cygwin. This  
happens for instance when calling foxGUib (in Linux, that’s ok). I  
posted  
about  
this already, and it seems that it’s somehow the fault of FXRuby and  
Cygwin  
talking  
together, but nobody knew anything more specific.

> But when I enter text in it and use a backspace to  
> correct some typo, the program immediately stops  
> with error: FXRbText::extractText : bad argument (in Redhat Linux),  
> if I use it under Cygwin(Windows XP), it crashes after entering the first  
> letter into the editor window (see error file below).  
> What’s wrong here?

Not sure, but it sounds like something you might want to file a bug  
report about:

\_[http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1223&group\_id=300&func=browse\_](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1223&group_id=300&func=browse_)  
([http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1223&group\_id=300&func=browse](http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?atid=1223&group_id=300&func=browse))

I’ll still experiment a bit to find out a good error description… and  
then  
submit a bug report.

Thanks,

Axel

For the time being, I’d recommend backing off to FXRuby 1.4, which is  
the stable release of FXRuby.