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This is mostly for the shoes tutorial

• Can two spaces be done after a period, perhaps with a non-printing character?

  • Can this be monkey-patched to be automatic, somehow? Sounds dangerous..
  • Perhaps respecting spaces of previous sentences should be done.
• Lots of screenshots!
• Spice things up, _why-ify the text?

• Text formatting:

  • Can I be more picky about font functionality? (CSS-style maybe?)
• I don’t really understand what’s going on with flow. Can I combine stacks and flows to make a four-cell table with text which automatically changes size to keep everything aligned? Like in HTML.

• Text styles:

  • Are there any more? Check the technical docs and source.

• Fonts:

  • Can I have “fallback” fonts like with HTML?
• Create a list, with examples, of all text modifiers.

• :align – Text Alignment:

  • Find the complete list.
  • Is there ‘justified’?
• :margin

• Gradient Background Colours:

  • Can I have the gradient begin from the left/right, or from a particular angle?

• Images / Clickable buttons

  • Can I change the image on mouse-in?
  • Can I change the image on mouse-out?
  • Can I change the image on button-down?
  • Can I change the image on button-up?

• Shapes:

  • These need way more explanation and examples.
  • I need a complete list of all the modifiers for every type of shape. Hell, I don’t even know if I have all the shapes!
  • Can I put text inside of shapes? eg. I want a 10-point star with “wow!” inside.
  • How do I change the angles / rotate the shape?
  • Explore more. Fiddling with some of these numbers does unexpected things. It looks like left/top/right/bottom are references to coordinates of particular points of the rectangle.

• shapes/stars:

  • How do I change its size?
• get the full list of colour names
• link to, or create, a nice hex colour map

• colour and borders

  • I need a better understanding of what’s going on. The gradient is happening too slow. More examples need to be made to demonstrate effective use of gradients.

• working with text / clearing:

  • Why does this example need to have @string using a stack?

• Text Fields:

  • edit_line
  • More advanced stuff needs to be covered, like using multiple text fields or loading/dumping information from files, but not right here.

Working with the mouse ∞

Shoes.app do
  @shape = star :points => 5
  motion do |left, top|
    @shape.move left, top
  end
end

Animation ∞

Shoes.app do
  @shoes = image "http://shoooes.net/shoes.png",
    :top => 100, :left => 100
  animate do |i|
    @shoes.top += (-20..20).rand
    @shoes.left += (-20..20).rand
  end
end