Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
The downside is that, due to rendering speed issues, I had to remove all the cool translucency and slow things down, so it doesn't *look* as cool as Kevin's original version.
I don't understand that issue. It seems that only a handful of Ruby statements are required to drive millions of Cairo pixels, very close to the hardware. If this remains an issue, maybe Shoes (or a plugin thereof) needs a "display list" concept, to treat entire sequences of hardware commands as objects...
> It also is just barely playable on my
MacBook Pro, so it may be painful on older hardware.
shoes raisins (0.r547) gives a blank window (Vaio VGN-FZ + Kubuntu)! I didn't go in after it...
