Okay, thanks for sitting tight everybody. I'm back from ART & CODE and, while I'm still working on Hackety Hack, I hope to return to working on Shoes 3 in a week or so.
The idea is to put it out in a few weeks. The biggest part is that we'll be moving to Ruby 1.9, VLC 1.9, and newer versions of Cairo and Pango. Also, all of Tim Elliott's great work on Windows will be merged. I've got some Vista fixes to work out as well. The release after this one will focus on speed. Basically making the retained graphics operate on an immediate surface. (A surface living in its own thread.) In Pittsburgh, I also had a chat with Seth Rasmussen about Shoes and we kicked around an idea for having an extension library that would make it a bit easier for people to bring in native controls (grids, trees, systray, etc.) into Shoes without needing my approval. I really like that idea and, yeah, could use some help with it. _why
