Thanks John, Yes the simple example works OK. My controller looks like this: class DisclaimerController < NSWindowController attr_accessor :showAgain def exitButtonAction(sender) NSLog("Disclaimer Window: exit button clicked") end def startButtonAction(sender) NSLog("Disclaimer Window: start button clicked") end def toggleShowAgainAction(sender) NSLog("Disclaimer Window: toggle checkbox clicked") p @showAgain.state p @showAgain.title active = (@showAgain.state == NSOnState) if (active) then NSLog("Disclaimer Window: toggle switched to Selected") else NSLog("Disclaimer Window: toggle switched to Unselected") end end end And the output looks like this: 2009-07-08 18:47:08.324 xxxx[610:10b] Disclaimer NIB loaded 2009-07-08 18:47:10.658 xxxx[610:10b] Disclaimer Window: toggle checkbox clicked 0 "Do not show this warning again." 2009-07-08 18:47:10.659 xxxx[610:10b] Disclaimer Window: toggle switched to Unselected 2009-07-08 18:47:11.570 xxxx[610:10b] Disclaimer Window: toggle checkbox clicked 0 "Do not show this warning again." 2009-07-08 18:47:11.571 xxxx[610:10b] Disclaimer Window: toggle switched to Unselected 2009-07-08 18:47:12.690 xxxx[610:10b] Disclaimer Window: toggle checkbox clicked As you can see the "toggleShowAgainAction" is activated, and the checkbox is linked to "showAgain". PS: The checkbox has the title "Do not show this warning again." (Sometimes I wish I had chosen a different profession, VBG!) Regards, Rien. On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:28, John Shea wrote:

Hi Marinus / Rien,

I just did a quick test, given a nib with window and a controller ruby file.

1. I dragged a checkbox NSButton onto the window 2. i created an attr_accessor :check in my controller 3. I created a method called test_check in my controller:

def test_check(sender) p @check.state end

4. I linked @check and the test_check method to the checkbox

And when i click on an off the checkbox the state toggles between 0 and 1.

So I do not think it is an issue MacRuby - could you try something simple like the above?

How were you polling the check box state? That is: which method is status = @myCheckbox.state in? Perhaps this method is not being called.

Cheers, John

On Jul 8, 2009, at 15:06 , Marinus van der Lugt wrote:

...

Hi All,

First post, so a little bit about me: I am a SW engineer and have been one for over 20 years, increadible as that may sound. I have programmed on the Mac before in Ada95, Obj-C and Java (but I have had a pause of about 5 years from the Mac). Now that MacRuby seems to gain some foothold I'd like to get back to the mac and make the jump from Obj-C to MacRuby.

I work in Xcode, and have just started a new MacRuby Core-Data Application.

The first goings look good, but in implementing my first window controller I ran into a (little?) problem: I cannot get the state of a checkbox:

status = @myCheckbox.state

always returns a Fixnum with value 0. regardless of the visual representation of the checkbox (i.e. selected or not)

The checkbox should be mapped correctly because:

myTitle = @myCheckbox.title

does indeed give me the title I set in the IB. I checked the archives but did not find any discussions about this. There was something about checkboxes and hotcocoa, but I do not use hotcocoa.

The best solution would be a simple stupid mistake on my part :-)

Any takers?

Regards, Rien.

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Hi Marinus, Are you by any chance trying to run a RubyCocoa project (of parts of it) with MacRuby? Both projects use a different syntax and are therefore incompatible. You should be able to use initWithWindowNibName in both RubyCocoa and MacRuby projects. In case it does not work for you, please send us a code snippet or a simple xcode project that reproduces the problem for you and we will have a look at it. Laurent On Jul 8, 2009, at 1:35 PM, Marinus van der Lugt wrote:

I am getting rather desperate here :-(

The initWithWindowNibName suddenly stopped working. It still works in a previous xcode project that I had, but I cannot create new MacRuby projects that use this method.

Is there something scr*d-up on my machine?

I am still on the checkbox problem and created an Obj-C xcode project that shows the correct working of the "state" operation. Then I created an exact copy (translation) in an xcode MacRuby project and now the initWithWindowNibName suddenly does not work anymore.

I checked and double checked and triple checked all the usual caveats. Nothing.

Has anybody here ever had something like this before? (and what was the solution?)

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