On 7/17/08, paresh mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An virtual world in shoes!! I didnt even knew that such a thing was possible
> but what do i know people always come up with ideas
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Devyn Cairns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > That would be great! I am writing an xml/yaml shoes ruby
> > everything-based virtual social world ;-) Whew. A sprite class would
> > help me with the moving of the char.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Eric K Idema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > First, thanks to everyone who helped me out during yesterday's
> ShoesFest. I
> > > had a lot of fun. If you didn't see it, this was my ShoesFest project:
> > >
> > > http://the-shoebox.org/apps/60
> > >
> > > The code is here:
> > >
> > > http://github.com/eki/shoesfest/tree/master
> > >
> > > Some parts of the code are a little sloppier than I'd like, but it was a
> one
> > > day effort to build a UI for a library I already had.
> > >
> > > For the next ShoesFest I'm thinking about working on a Sprite widget.
> Goals:
> > >
> > > * Animated movement
> > > * nudge -- give the sprite a little push, it'd eventually slow to a
> stop,
> > > potentially useful with keyboard input
> > > * ease -- move the sprite to a given point, the sprite would slow
> down
> > > as it reaches it's destination (ease into place)
> > > * travel -- set the sprite in motion in a given direction at a given
> > > speed. It would continue moving indefintely
> > > * soft_stop -- slow to a stop
> > > * hard_stop -- stop immediately
> > >
> > > For animated movement, it would be helpful to be able to read the (x,y)
> > > coordinates of an imageblock (I plan on backing the Sprite with an
> > > imageblock). If it's not there, though, it's not a big deal, I can
> store (x,y)
> > > separately in the Sprite.
> > >
> > > Also, is it possible, from a Widget, to get it's parent? Whether a
> Stack,
> > > Flow, or Shoes::App? This would be useful for bounding the Sprite's
> motion.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to get siblings? Like, say we have a Sprite in a Stack
> that
> > > also contains, say, a Wall Widget. It'd be nice if the Sprite could
> find it's
> > > sibling the Wall and bounce off it.
> > >
> > > * Animated show / hide
> > > * fade -- Change the opacity of the Sprite so it fades away
> > > * appear -- Change the opacity of the Sprite so it gradually appears
> > >
> > > It'd be super handy if the existing show / hide mehtods took a time
> parameter
> > > and handled animation themselves. Short of that, it'd help to be able
> read
> > > the children of an imageblock and each child's opacity (fill / stroke).
> If we
> > > can't read fill / stroke, it'll be tough to write general code for this.
> It'd
> > > be nice to be able to change fill / stroke, but I could write the code
> to
> > > redraw each child with adjusted fill / stroke.
> > >
> > > * Color shift
> > > -- gradually change a given color into another color. This would
> sort of
> > > be a generalization of fade / appear, but we could apply the
> change to
> > > parts of a Sprite. Say, a Sprite is composed of several rects and
> > > ovals, it'd be cool to change all the blue rects and ovals to red
> while
> > > leaving the other colors alone.
> > >
> > > That's probably more than enough to try to accomplish on a single day.
> To wrap
> > > it up, if the following could be added to Shoes it'd be greatly
> appreciated:
> > >
> > > * Read (x,y) coords of imageblocks (and Shapes, Images, etc as a bonus)
> > > * Read fill / stroke
> > > * Bug fix for the imageblock.clear crash
> > > * Navigate parent, children, siblings for Widgets (actually, maybe we
> can
> > > already do this?)
> > > * Change fill / stroke (not necessary)
> > >
> > > Thanks again to everyone who made the first ShoesFest so much fun!
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > --
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
It's gonna be 2d, but still good.
