Thanks :)
I modified my code and it seems much better...
I will run it tonight and see the result tomorrow ;)
If it's better I will post the enhanced code.
cheers
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Benjamin
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:08 PM, _why <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> _why
>
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Benjamin Francisoud
http://rubyscube.blogspot.com
