Re: Shoes Packager on WinXP: Changes to .rb not persisting to package?

2009-06-02 Thread Kyle King
the Packager altogether for me. Jonathan On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Kyle King kylejk...@gmail.com wrote: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.shoes/3143 Kyle On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Jonathan Roes wrote: I can't seem to get the Shoes Packager to output an updated .exe for me. I get

Re: Shoes: meant for education? Re: Introducing Socks, a shoes-like JS toolkit

2009-05-19 Thread Kyle King
Shoes got mentioned a while back in a Linux.com article entitled Open source programming languages for kids. Here's a snippet: Scratch, Alice, and Shoes are all open source, include support channels such as forums or chatrooms, and have large, thriving communities. These three environments

Re: Introducing Socks, a shoes-like JS toolkit

2009-05-18 Thread Kyle King
Shoes has always, to me anyway, pioneered the idea that anyone should be able to write a simple gui. That programming little apps should be fun and easy. But Shoes isn't just a toy to teach children. Although it is best suited for teaching, it also has the very real potential to be a

Re: Parallax Scrolling

2009-03-22 Thread Kyle King
I didn't know parallax scrolling had a name! Clever stuff. Here's a shoes implementation of the parallax scrolling example on Wikipedia. I'm not sure if this will display correctly on all platforms since I can't quite figure out why I get a gap in the scroll when I change the = 5 to = 0.

Re: shoes gem alternate repo's

2009-03-12 Thread Kyle King
Shoes.setup do Gem.sources = %w[http://gems.github.com/] gem 'dxoigmn-pcaprub' end Shoes.app do require 'pcaprub' end On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Edward Heil wrote: Apologies for possibly dumb question; I'd like Shoes to try to install a gem from gems.github.com.

Re: Sqlite3 on ubuntu

2009-03-11 Thread Kyle King
ActiveRecord has a built in pure ruby sqlite adapter (which is the *only* reason I sometimes use ActiveRecord over Sequel). Perhaps you're having include issues. Could you give the following a try? Shoes.setup do gem 'activerecord' end Shoes.app do begin

Threads and Exceptions

2009-03-04 Thread Kyle King
Exceptions occurring within the main thread in shoes are caught and sent to a handsome console. Which is nice. Exceptions occurring in new threads within the app, on the other hand, are dropped and the app quietly quits working. The user can just wrap the offending code in a begin ...

Re: Slot width and subclassing

2009-02-25 Thread Kyle King
Changing width to parent.width outputs 600 in both cases. Kyle On Feb 25, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Andre Nathan wrote: Hi I was trying to figure out how to center an image in my app, and I found the following weird behaviour: Shoes.app do stack do p width # ok, prints 600 end end but!

Two things

2009-02-07 Thread Kyle King
I've perused the Shoes source but, being particularly dense, could not figure out where to commit the following fixes. Any help would be appreciated. 1. I am running Raisins on OS X Server 10.5.6 and cannot build native extensions because of linking problems. Changing the CFLAGS variable