Shoes

ShoesA tiny Ruby GUI toolkit for all of us

about me

• Koen Van der Auwera

• Co-founder 10to1 (http://10to1.be)

• Enjoying Java since 2000, Ruby since 2003

• http://atog.be

Shoes?

• Designed with simplicity in mind

• Ruby

• You only need to know a few things

• Uses Cairo and Pango for drawing and text.

• Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

10

• para

• stacks

• flows

• button

• image

• edit_line

• link

• background

• Shoes.url

• clear

para

• all things text

• short for “paragraph”

stacks and flows

• Columns, grids, just like web pages

• Stacks = vertical

• Flows = horizontal

• Shoes doesn’t believe in a horizontal scrollbar

stacks and flows

button

• Yep, a button

image

• gif, jpeg or png

• easily swap images by changing the path

edit_line

• an input box

link

• just like hyperlinks

• web url open in a web browser

• needs be in a text block (para, title, ...)

• link(“Yahoo!”, :click => “http://yahoo.com”)

• image(“me.png”, :click => “http://atog.be”)

background

• color, gradient or an image

• fill up an entire box

• rounded corners

• borders too

background

Shoes.url

clear

• clear a box

• hide, show, append, prepend, before, after

• remove

demo

• for fun!

more?

• http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes

• [email protected]

• Nobody knows shoes (http://www.lulu.com/content/1365064)