From: Steve Klabnik <steve@...>
Date: 2010-09-20T13:11:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Learning Shoes - Have some questions!

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> I recently started playing with Shoes to learn it during my Ruby
> learning journey.
> It appears to be easy, although the current doc is not what a beginner
> like I would prefer.
>

Hey, thanks for trying out Shoes! What would make the documentation better
for you?


> I hope the developer of this

pgm does not get upset.

I have some questions which I would like help with.


Absolutely not. Feedback is the only way that things get better.

First, should I post Shoes questions to shoes@librelist.org or should

my questions go to ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org? or Both?


You're free to post questions to both, but you'll get better help from
shoes@librelist.org. I try to pay attention to ruby-talk, but sometimes I
miss threads. I read everything on the shoes-specific list. I don't think
I've seen any of the other core team members post to Ruby-talk, either.

I tried

subscribing to shoes@librelist.org but it was impossible!


Could you elaborate more on what you mean by 'it was impossible?' or is tha=
t
what's in this image you're talking about? feel free to mail it to me
off-list.

1 - When placing a number of buttons, such as the ones found in a

calculator, how can I tell Shoes to place them on the center of the

pane, without having to specify margin?


Does this help? http://shoes.heroku.com/manual/Styles.html#:align

2 - I am using a stack do with nothing inside (between the do and the

end) to keep items within a flow one on top of the other, is there a

different way to do this?


I'm not sure of exactly what you're asking. Maybe a screenshot would help?

3 - I tried to use the Pi symbol and the square root (=E2=88=9A) symbol and

other symbols as caption/lable for the corresponding buttons, but I

got an errors or the wrong thing displayed. Is there a way to

accomplish this?


Are you using Shoes 2 or Shoes 3? They use 1.8 and 1.9, respectively, and s=
o
there might be some encoding issues based on which one you're using.

4 - It looks like I can achieve the same function with para and

caption. What is the difference between the two?


I am not sure, off the top of my head.

5 - How can I reduce the space between flows?


I'm not sure about this one, either...

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