On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Samuel Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shoebot, a free-software version of the awesome Mac program DrawBot > (which relies heavily Cocoa), is finished. Thanks to David Crossland > who tipped me off to this. > http://www.tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/ > http://tinkerhouse.net/shoebot/Docs/Screenshots > > From its getting started page: > > ======================== > > == Shoebot from the console == > > Shoebot parses scripts written in the Nodebox/Drawbot language and > creates image output from those instructions. Running Shoebot scripts > through the console is straightforward: sbot <yourscript.bot> -o > <outputfile> > > You can specify the type of image through the output file extension: > > * .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) > * .ps (PostScript) > * .pdf (Portable Document Format) > * .png (Portable Network Graphics) > > Shoebot will automagically generate the appropriate output from the > extension you specify. > For instance, to output the primitives.bot example to an SVG file, type: > sbot /usr/share/shoebot/examples/primitives.bot -o test.svg > > This is Shoebot's 'oneshot mode'. However, see also: > * WindowedMode > * Shoebot IDE > * Socketserver - control your scripts from external sources > * Python Module - run Shoebot from inside your Python scripts > > ======================== > > > It's written in Ruby, and shouldn't be so hard to sugarize... are > there any other fine Ruby programs that have jumped the XO? > A ruby emulator bundled with Hackety Hack lessons also seems like an > excellent idea.
Actually, ShoeBot is written in python, so it's the easiest path we have to sugarize apps. Haven't heard yet about ruby activities, but I think it should be easy using ruby-gnome and ruby-dbus. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
