don't use puts for debug. use the debug function somevalue = "hello world" debug(somevalue)
Cmd-/ (command forward slash) opens the shoes console that will display your error messages. Check out the shoes manual too. It tells about the many other shoes logging methods, etc. As for supporting all of ruby... I'll say yea mostly. In terms of being able to run system commands and the like you are fine. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM, naren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > 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? > > Thanks in advance. > Naren > >
