Fine Shoes Coders, I've just completed work on my very first Shoes application. I'm using: - Debian Sid - ruby 1.8.7 (2008-06-20 patchlevel 22) [i686-linux] compiled from source
- Shoes raisins (0.r811), again, from source I wrote the application on my computer, then tried to make a Windows exe so that my wife could use the app on her system. I don't know if any of my observations have been fixed in the absolute latest version of shoes because I've not used Git before. If they have been resolved, pardon the list noise. - self.clipboard= works just fine on the wife's Window's computer, but not at all on mine. - shoes --package creates executables well when everything is contained in one file. But when my app grew and I split things across several files. the resulting executable(s) for Linux or Windows could not find the required files (which I required using a simple " require 'class1.rb' " style directive), even when the *.run file was in the same directory with them.(The package dialog never closes, btw, even though the executables were created.) Ultimately, what I did was put the *.rb file and it's associated class files in a directory on her system, and created a Windows Shortcut to launch the application using the Shoes executable in C:/Program Files/Common Files/Shoes/ from earlier versions of the executable. Other than that, everything was wonderful to work with. I think I love Shoes. Thanks _why! Sincerely, Howard
