On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:16 PM, naren wrote:
I just downloaded and installer Shoes. It looks really neat, and I
really like the concept. I have been literally looking for years
for a way to create desktop apps (as opposed to web apps) that are
a pleasure to layout controls on.
I tried out the little sample snippets from the tutorials and help
pages. They all worked well, except when there was a "puts 'I got
here'" kind of action, nothing was printed on my console... I don't
really care for this functionality, except for debugging, so it
would be nice to have this feature.
use:
debug "I got here"
for that functionality, it will appear on the Shoes console, depends
on your platform the key combination to bring the console up. There
is documentation for the other methods of this type in the manual.
Secondly, is all of Ruby supported from within a Shoes app? I am
building a wrapper for a command line program and would really like
to be able to launch this app once the user has configured the
settings on the GUI. Should I expect this to work?
Yes, this should work, I've used system(), and popen() successfully.
DZ
Thanks in advance.
Naren
