From: _why <why@...>
Date: 2007-07-31T08:57:54+09:00
Subject: [ANN] shoes 0.r9 -- an entirely new GUI toolkit

Hey, yeah.  Today marks the first experimental release of Shoes.

  <http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/>

Shoes is a GUI toolkit, built with Cairo and Pango alone, which
takes its cues from the web.  Rather than building native-looking
apps with a pile of widgets, you have some text and images and very
few native controls.  Hyperlinking and form submission is used to move
through apps.

(An example is up on http://hackety.org.  More lessons throughout the
week.)

Shoes is also a minimalist toolkit, really.  There are only two
layout styles to learn: stacks and flows.  Only five types of native
controls: edit_line, edit_box, button, progress and list_box.
With any luck, Shoes will be small enough to keep in your head.

Really, it's not a terribly serious or ambitious project.  I'm just
using it to build a new Hackety Hack and though some might find it
handy.

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OH, ALERT: Shoes is still quite experimental.  If you're going to
plunge in, expect some segfaults and some build/installation
headaches.  I only have builds for Intel Macs, Win32, and Linux
32-bit presently, though source code is available.

Okay then.  Thankyou for reading!

_why