If you're feeling adventurous, and don't mind playing about a bit with your layout, checkout how the shoes Help app does some of its layouts in (shoes/lib/shoes/help.rb)
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:21, Alexander Rakoczy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 00:09, Sam Saffron <[email protected]> wrote: >> This works .. is there any way I can improve it ? > > Hi Sam! > > Because of the problems I've had with :scroll => true and setting > heights (usually a bad idea with the way Shoes is designed), I would > do something similar this way: > > http://gist.github.com/54431 > > This way, you'll find that by being attached to a window, scrolling > the whole app should work a lot nicer. I tried running this in OSX > and the whole sticky fandango failed on me entirely, so I've since > booted into linux (which I will assume you are using too). In linux, > the mouse scroll wheel works as well, too. > > I keep the style in it's own method call, instead of the stack(styles) > way of doing it, since for some reason you cannot save the stack to an > instance variable if you do so. > > Also, you don't need to save the app object, since self is (almost) > always Shoes.app, and if it isn't, there's a method called 'app' to > get it. > > I hope this helps. > > Alex > > -- > alexander rakoczy > -- alexander rakoczy
