From: Ruby Student <ruby.student@...>
Date: 2008-09-17T04:48:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with Shoes

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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:13 PM, _why <why@ruby-lang.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:06:27AM +0900, Ruby Student wrote:
> > The following is the modified code from calc to display the board, and
> for
> > which I have some questions:
> >
> > Shoes.app(:title => "                                         A Humble
> > Sudoku Solver ", :height => 546, :width => 617, :resizable => false) do
> >     background "#EEC".."#996", :radius => 5, :top => 2, :left => 2,
> :width
> > => -4, :height => -4
> >     stack :margin => 0 do
> >        stack :margin => 0
> >        btn = "123456789"
> >        flow :width => 618, :margin => 4 do
> >           (1..81).each do |n|
> >                button btn, :width => 66, :height => 66
> >           end
> >       end
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > 1) - For the title, is there some formatting to tell Shoes to center or
> > left/right justified a title?
>
> For window titles, no.  For titles on the screen, use :align =>
> "center".
>
>  title "Sudoku Solver", :align => "center"
>
> > 2) - For the background I tried fill green right after the last " (double
> > quote) but it gave me an error. How could I specified fill green,
> although I
> > don't really need it.
>
> You want the background to be green, not a gradient?
> Try: background(green)
>
> > 3) - What purpose of :radius => 5?
>
> In newer versions of Shoes, this is :curve => 5.  It curves the
> edges of the background rectangle.
>
> > 4) - If you are familiar with sudoku, how do you add solid lines to
> separate
> > each subgroup of 3x3?
>
> You'll want to group the buttons each in their own slot.  (A slot is
> the generic name for a `stack` or `flow`.)
>
>  Shoes.app(:title => "A Humble Sudoku Solver ", :height => 546,
>       :width => 640, :resizable => false) do
>    background green
>
>    btn = "123456789"
>    9.times do
>      flow :width => 206, :margin => 4 do
>        9.times do
>          button btn, :width => 66, :height => 56
>        end
>      end
>    end
>  end
>
> I don't know if this is helpful or just more confusing, but Martin
> DeMello recently wrote a crossword builder.  Maybe since sudoku and
> crosswords are relatives, it might have some ideas you could use?
> <http://gist.github.com/11107>
>
> _why
>
>
_why,

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my questions. It is really
appreciated.
I will also look and learn from Martin's crosswords puzzle.

Thanks again,

Ruby Student

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