thanks!  I saved the source file as UTF-8, but then the shoes console
gave me three errors like this: "Invalid char '\357' in expression".
A simple ruby console gave me the same error.  That was with ruby 1.8,
when I upgraded to 1.9, it worked in the ruby console.  But apparently
shoes is compiled with ruby 1.8, so no progress with shoes :(    With
ruby 1.9 due in January, hopefully we'll soon see shoes using it.



On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Jenna Fox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes indeedy, shoes uses UTF-8 for all text. UTF-8 is incompatible with
> extended ascii. In your text editor of choice you should find an Encoding
> menu somewhere in the menu bar, which you can set to UTF-8, and resave your
> application. It should then run fine. :)
>
> I'm unsure about the video thing.
>
>
> On 21/12/2008, at 9:36 AM, comptroller killjoy wrote:
>
>> First of all, great work with shoes.  I've never been so excited to
>> get serious about programming.
>>
>> Now, first question.  I can't get any text elements to display
>> extended ascii characters.  For example, para ("próxima") displays
>> "pr", as do caption, inscription, alert(), etc..   What is the status
>> or plans for support of extended ASCII characters?
>>
>> Second question.  Video is working well. Except when I try to play
>> video files with medium or large dimensions.  I'm guessing that
>> anything larger than 400x300 doesn't play, because of line 1500 in
>> ruby.c in the shoes_video_draw function
>> (http://github.com/why/shoes/tree/master/shoes/ruby.c):
>>
>> SETUP(shoes_video, REL_CANVAS, 400, 300);
>>
>> Am I correct that this line is the reason videos with larger
>> dimensions won't play?  Are there any plans for adding support for
>> larger dimensions, or being able to specify the dimensions of the
>> video element?
>>
>>
>> thanks much
>>
>> cd with ruby shoes
>
>

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