Re: [Wxruby-dev] Summary of naming problems

[Richard Kilmer]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 03:06  PM, repeater wrote:

> For sure it is a matter of taste, but we must just make sure we can 
> stomach
> '::' in bulk.
>
> -the cultural reorientation of people like me, who through experience 
> with
> other gui libs would 'include' the first thing that they see.

You can include if you want.  You just have to know that by doing so 
you are bringing in the whole constant pool of Wx...this is no 
different for Fox.  You can still access constants that existed before 
the inclusion of the namespace like for Object it would be ::Object 
(accessing the Object constant in the 'root' namespace).  What is nice 
is by giving you a choice, your example could become:

    include Wx
    @calendar = CalendarCtrl.new(self, ID_CALENDAR, DefaultDateTime,
                                     DEFAULT_POSITION, DEFAULT_SIZE,
                                     CAL_MONDAY_FIRST |
                                     CAL_SHOW_HOLIDAYS |
                                     RAISED_BORDER)

    dlgSizer = BoxSizer.new(HORIZONTAL)
    calendarSizer = BoxSizer.new(VERTICAL)
    calendarSizer.Add(@calendar, 1, GROW)
    dlgSizer.Add(calendarSizer, 1, GROW)

And of course if you just do this in a class:

class MyClass
  include Wx
  ...
end

It keeps the the inclusion isolated.

-rich