Hi ...
I have a related question, it might be a feature suggestion for the police
force ...
Shoes doesn't quite work the way I expected with the Windows Start command.
For the non-Windows people, I'll explain .. Start is like:
$ shoes myShinyApp.rb &
But actually, under windows when one kick-s a GUI application is _should_
fire off to the windows message-loop as a window program. For example; look
at the difference between Notepad and Shoes on the command line.
C:\ > shoes myShinyApp ......... Waits until the window is closed.
C:\ > Notepad
C:\ > .................... Notepad is launched as its own stack or like
a fork() process
And the next command line prompt appears
for me to do more.
I'm pretty sure that's the normal behaviour on Apple when I type
something like finder to the command doesn't it go off and leave me with the
next command prompt too?
With Start, like
C:\ > start shoes myShinyApp ......... Opens a new consol window and
that WAITS
until the Shoes
app window is closed.
So my "guess" here is that Shoes is built as a console application (say like
xcopy or ipconfig) and not a windows application (like notepad).
On the "least surprise" principle, I'd expect and my (Mac user) wife would
expect a GUI app to fire-off a gui window and issue a new prompt. On linux
it is like (say an x-program).
$ xstart Shoes myShinyApp
(or whatever).... Do folk think that makes sense, or was it just me ?
aloha,
\_w_/
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2009/7/31 Roy Wright <[email protected]>
> Of course there is the old standby:
>
> #!/usr/bin/env shoes
>
>
>>> Then, I can say:
>>>
>>> $ shoes foo.rb
>>>
>>
