Yes, _why has previously indicated hope of updating shoes to use 1.9
when it's quite stable and full of goodness. Perhaps the next shoes
release, or the one after that!
On 21/12/2008, at 12:19 PM, comptroller killjoy wrote:
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
