Hi Devyn,
Thanks for the reply. :)
Does the following snippet work well on your pc/mac?
Shoes.app do
o = oval :top => "50%", :left => "50%"
start do
para "oval is at (#{o.top}, #{o.left})"
end
end
-- ashbb
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Devyn Cairns <[email protected]>wrote:
> Oh, well read the manual: Shoes thinks of percentages in decimals from
> 0.0 to 1.0 (0% to 100%). 50% = 0.5 in Shoes.
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Satoshi Asakawa <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi _why,
> >
> > Thank you for the explanation.
> > I understood to need `start` block!
> >
> > But still a bit confusing for the following behavior. :(
> >
> > Shoes.app do
> > o = oval :top => "50%", :left => "50%"
> > start do
> > para "oval is at (#{o.top}, #{o.left})"
> > end
> > end
> >
> > Run the above snippet, it didn't work and I got the error
> > on Shoes console window:
> >
> > Error in C:/Program Files/Common Files/Shoes/0.r1134/lib/shoes.rb line
> 394 :
> > can't convert String into Integer
> >
> > Then replaced "50%" to 0.5.
> > It works but displayed `oval is at(0, 0)`.
> >
> > Then again replaced "50%" to 100.
> > It works and displayed `oval is at(100, 100)`.
> >
> > Umm... I'm using Windows XP and Shoes 2 (0.r1134).
> >
> > Regards,
> > ashbb
> >
> >
> > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:50 AM, _why <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:04:35PM +0000, Ehsanul Hoque wrote:
> >> > Ahh, well I did expect it to work like that, hmmm... It still
> >> > could be justified I suppose, it's really upto _why whether
> >> > it's a bug, or just a "feature", just how it works.
> >>
> >> Until the image is drawn, you can't really know `top` and `left`.
> >>
> >> For instance, let's say you're using percentages:
> >>
> >> Shoes.app do
> >> o = oval :top => "50%", :left => "50%", :radius => 20
> >> para "Oval is at (#{oval.top}, #{oval.left})"
> >> end
> >>
> >> Until we compute the window size, the coordinates can't be shown.
> >> So, what you do is get the coordinates in the `start` block:
> >>
> >> Shoes.app do
> >> o = oval :top => "50%", :left => "50%", :radius => 20
> >> start do
> >> para "Oval is at (#{oval.top}, #{oval.left})"
> >> end
> >> end
> >>
> >> Because the start block runs after the first paint.
> >>
> >> It still feels like a bug, but I'm not sure if I want to recompute
> >> every slot each time a new element is added. I will probably have
> >> `top` and `left` and `width` and so on return exceptions if you
> >> try to use them before the window is painted... I don't know.
> >>
> >> _why
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> ~devyn
>
