On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Mark Wilkins wrote:
> I did a presentation on Shoes at my local Ruby Brigade meeting last > night. For fun, I did the whole slideshow in Shoes. My Shoes.app was > just a little engine that stepped through a big array of code > snippets: > > - Handle :left and :right keypress > - get the prev/next code snippet > - eval Nice idea. > > It worked well, but now I'm wondering...what's the best way to get all > of those rendered *slides* into something like a PDF for distribution? > > I suppose I could step through each slide and do a screen capture of > the window, pasting all of images into some document. But I was On XP you could probably automate that with AutoIt. http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/index.shtml I've not tried to use it with Shoes, but ... Were you on Vista, this poses an interesting question: the speech recognition engine allows access to named (or if you can't name it, say "show numbers" and use the number) objects, so I wonder if theres a way to access that model directly? Speech macros are in beta, and until they're more stable I think I'll avoid them for now, but it would be interesting to explore what is possible there. I've not used MacOSX so I don't know what's possible there. It would be nice if Shoes had some reflection to get it's own images of its windows, I suppose, though that does open up the fake UI problem: like those annoying Windows error message images that nefarious advertisers put on web pages, just to trick people into clicking them. Things described here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001164.html > hoping there might some shoes-y way to do it? > > If it matters, I'm using Raisins (0.1123) + video on both WinXP and OS X 10.4. > > Thanks, > > Mark > Hugh
