Updates about both of my questions: I was confused about video. I rebuilt shoes with the VLC arguments (line 1439 in ruby.c) changed, "--quiet" to "--verbose=2" and "--no-video-on-top" to "--file-logging". Looked at vlc-log.txt and realized that some videos weren't playing because the file paths were being corrupted by the backslashes (not because of their resolutions). So now all my videos work as long as I use forward slashes in the paths.
Extended text characters do work in alert boxes, but not in text elements (changing the font doesn't help). They do show when pasted into edit boxes, and transfer from those to show well in text elements (as in the sample app in the UTF-8 section at http://help.shoooes.net/Rules.html). But when text is loaded into an edit box from within the ruby code for the app, it does not show well. Moreover, the same string displays differently in edit_box from para. Shoes.app do stack do alert "pórtate bien" para "pórtate bien" edit_box "pórtate bien" end end the alert box displays "pórtate bien". the para displays "p". and the edit_box displays "prtate bien". cd On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 3:36 PM, comptroller killjoy <[email protected]> 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 >
