Firstly, I believe the main slot (app.slot) is a stack. I could be
wrong here, though. Secondly, for some reason you have to stop the
inner flow from being the full width of the app:
Shoes.app do
flow do
para "you have "
flow :width => 45 do #stop from taking over the world
background red..green
para "GOT", :stroke => white
end
para " to be kidding me"
end
end
I'm not sure why, either.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:25, Seth Thomas Rasmussen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Daniel Worthington
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, I am a web developer and basically I am trying to style text as if it
>> were an "inline block."
>>
>> I'm sure this can be done somehow, but I was wondering what y'all think is
>> the simplest way
>>
>> What I really want to do is have text, say a single word in a paragraph, and
>> give it a border and rounded corners and even a gradient background (or
>> anything else you can do with a background in Shoes) but just on an em, or a
>> code. All I can seem to do is change the :fill on these elements, which is
>> pretty much what you get in HTML, but I am greedy and want to make things
>> beautiful. Backgrounds seem to only work on stacks and flows. Help?
>
> Hmm. I was thinking that you might be able to hack it with a lot of
> flow/para jiggery pokery, but perhaps not..
>
> Shoes.app do
> para "you have "
> flow do
> background red..green
> para "GOT", :stroke => white
> end
> para " to be kidding me"
> end
>
> Each para in that example is on its own line, despite everything being
> in flows. I'm not sure why, perhaps somebody else knows more about
> layout to come up with a solution here..
>
> I think that maybe the new flow produces a newline effect, despite it
> being rendered inside a flow.. not sure if that's correct behavior or
> not.
>
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> Seth Thomas Rasmussen
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>
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