Or you could just let this noob be totally awed by the fantastic response I have got. The debug console worked for me... showed me the flaws in my code in all their gloriousness. I am up and running now. I had been putting together the app with WxRuby, I think I might be able to convert that over in a couple of days to a much more polished looking app with Shoes. Thanks y'all (from Austin TX)
Naren On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Josh Cronemeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > quick! somebody ask more questions! we have too much mailing list help > capacity when a question gets 3 immediate replies :) > > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Josh Cronemeyer < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >> >
