Hi!
I’ve made a small example for Shoes.
It’s complete clone of windows minesweeper. The code is not very good, but, IMHO, good enough to demonstrate power of ruby+shoes :)
Source length is ~270 loc.
Screenshots: windows, mac, ubuntu
Posted to the Shoes Mailing List By Que on Feb 12, 2008
Speak now or forever hold your peace:
Just to follow up on that, I figured out what i was doing wrong with the SVN head of shoes and got it built on Ubuntu. I still see the middle/right click swap problem, however. I should check to see if midnight ‘roids does this as well.
I have a wireless mighty mouse that I use with OS X and can’t seem to get the right-click to work. After a bit of fiddling I made the center track-ball click to be “click3” and tweaked the code to replace 2 with 3 and ignore the ‘reveal’ option that used to be accessed via 3. So… it works great! And I’ll show it to the kids and see what they want to change – get them into programming the way I did – with games!
thanks _why and whoever wrote the minesweeper app!
Did you ever have any luck sorting out the “uninitialized constant Gem::Ext” error? I’m trying to get it going on Xubuntu Hardy Heron and it’s driving me nuts! ARGH! :-(
Put up a 3-lines-fancier version where you don’t die in the first click. Nothing guarantees that that first click gives enough information to move from there.
and whoever wrote the minesweeper.
This app is teh awexome!
It seem solid as hell to me. I have no bugs to add save the ones from the list, which I’ll paste here for convenience.
• Nick Moffitt: I’ve noticed that the mouse buttons (middle, right) appear to be switched on my Ubuntu 7.10 box. Someone mentioned the same problem in the #shoes channel on freenode.
So basically I end up right-clicking to filter squares and middle-clicking to place flags.
I’m running the shoes-0.r396 release because the current SVN version gives me a “uninitialized constant Gem::Ext” error whenever I run it, so that may be part of this.
Anyway, beaujolais to minesweeper!
• jawbroken:
I also noticed that on my mac, running OS X, a ctrl-click isn’t registered as a right click in the game. Putting two fingers on the trackpad and clicking (the other way to right click) does count as a right click, however. I am not sure if this should be handled by Shoes or by the program, however.
Also, clicking on the Beginner/Intermediate/Expert buttons while in the middle of a game doesn’t change to that difficulty, you have to purposefully lose first. Not sure if that is a bug or a feature, but it was unexpected for me.