On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:50:14AM +0200, ruby francisoud wrote:
> I made a tiny "time bomb" app with Shoes.
> But after runnning it for a few hours, the shoes process is eating and
> consuming lots of memory until it crash and vanish :(
It's true. You will want to split your app up into classes or
methods. Ruby does not garbage collect if everything stays in the
top scope.
Something like:
class TimeBomb < Shoes
url "/", :setup
def setup
stack :margin => 10 do
counter = Counter.new(Time.parse("05/30/2008 17:30"))
animate(100) do
redraw
end
end
end
def redraw
clear do
background black
stack do
style = {:align => "center", :stroke => white}
counter.update
para "Tic Tac...", style
label = strong(counter.left) if(counter.time_left > 0)
label = strong("Boom!") if(counter.time_left <= 0)
para label, style
end
end
end
end
Shoes.app :height => 100, :width => 350
Even better would be to just use `replace` on the labels rather than
clearing the whole slot. Samples like samples/simple-anim-text.rb
and samples/simple-timer.rb illustrate how.
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