This tutorial describes some of the basic graphic capabilities of the Shoes Ruby-based mini-GUI toolkit. Working with complicated graphics, it is often a good idea to work around a given point of origin and then move, rotate, or scale the image as required. Like many GUI toolkits, Shoes origin is located at the top left [...]
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This tutorial describes some of the basic graphic capabilities of the Shoes Ruby-based mini-GUI toolkit. With Shoes you can set the fill and stroke color for the different shapes you draw. To start off with some examples using color, here is how to turn the fill and stroke color off. You can disable the fill [...]
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This tutorial describes some of the basic graphic capabilities of the Shoes mini-GUI toolkit. Arrow The Shoes mini-GUI toolkit has a arrow method that draws a simple arrow pointing to the right. You can pass in the location of the tip of the arrow in the form of xy coordinates. The arrow method takes a [...]
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I’ve already mentioned the Shoes, the mini Ruby-based GUI Toolkit, and gone into detail about its 2D graphics capabilities. In this post I will just provide some additional example of animated graphics developed with Shoes. Shoes Bubbles This sample application follows the mouse when it hovers around the application window and draws growing bubbles. The [...]
Unlike some developers I know and work with, I have a very vanilla installation of Firefox. I know some Firefox enthusiasts that have a ton of add on extensions like Greasemonkey, delicious, enhanced tabs, and what not. Up until recently I have used only one extension, FireBug, but I have recently discovered ScreenGrab! ScreenGrab lets [...]
I think that some of the best Java Posse rants happens when they do a live show. The following is my transcription from their live show at JavaZone 2007. Top reasons indicating you might be in a broken project… It adds three months to add a checkbox on a web UI Everything starts to look [...]