This app generates sentences out of candy hearts for fun and profit. It features such classics as “be mine” and “my hero” as well as modern favorites like “fax me” and “in a fog.” Once in awhile, you’ll stumble across something remarkably coherent.
Speak now or forever hold your peace:
ur kind heat wave sun shine to you & me … let’s kiss :)
Before I learned Shoes, I also made a version of this in JavaScript: http://cultspace.org/etc/hearts/hearts.html
A tip to anyone who wants to use “base_path”, um, er, don’t use “base_path”. :)
Just use relative addressing, like: image “images/heart14.png”
Notice there is no / at the start of that? I’m pretty sure, on all platforms, shoes starts looking in the script’s path first.
Or maybe that’s only because I’ve associated .rb with shoes on my system? I double click a script and it runs. This is on Windows. Ah well.
I’ve callously rewritten a version of your code and shymakything’ed it, uploaded that. win.
Great and thank you! Your .shy works fine for me on OS X as well. However when I edit version 1 and make it a relative path as I believe you did, it gives me such an error as “no such file images/heart31.png”. As you say, this is probably a Windows vs. OS X thing. I also get an error if I run shoes from the terminal, bun that error has paths relative to the shoes executable in /Applications/Shoes.app/...
So what about having the .rb’s path in /Applications/Shoes.app be the working folder for Shoes.app()? I could rtfm but if somebody knows, let’s get the word out.
If you are running shoes from the terminal, and then asking shoes to find the rb file for you, that also could be the trouble.
Try adding shoes to your environment path, and then run “shoes xyz.rb” from within the folder of the rb? maybe that will work. :)
That is actually what I did.. /Applications/Shoes.app/Contents/MacOS/ is in my path. I type “shoes hearts.rb” and it comes up, but since OS X is running the application it forces the working folder, and relative paths still fail.
Relative paths on OSX have always been a headache. _why explained that they will work with Shys, but good luck getting them to work with regular ruby apps. I looked through the source for a while, and couldn’t find a way to do it. So base_path in the raw app, and relative in the shy seems to be the way to go until Shoes gets an update.
ok, thanks! good to know somebody has their eye on it.
Cool let’s kiss nice girl :)
I love you Beth
and then asking shoes to be.
After downloading this, open hearts.rb and edit $base_path. Otherwise you will generate no love, only errors.