Shoes, a Tiny Toolkit
Shoes is a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit. It's for making regular old apps that run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets. (More in the README.)
Here's a trivial little button app (compare with these):
Shoes.app {
button("Press Me") { alert("You pressed me") }
}
A few other samples can be found in trunk/samples.
Hey, Welcome to Shoes
To start off, download Shoes for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Pick an installer or make Shoes from scratch.
The next place to go is The Shoebox. Fan supported, this is a repository of different games and hacks written for Shoes. Check it out!
If you're an advanced user who wants to try the latest stuff, see the Building Shoes page to get the source code for Shoes and hack it up!
Shoes Knowledge
- A fundamental concept: stacks and flows.
- The Entirety of Shoes, a complete map.
- A Few Tutorials from blogs around the world.
Also, try typing shoes --manual to open up the built-in docs.
Beyond Shoes
Another great place to find links are the shoes+toolkit or shoes+ruby tags on del.icio.us.
To join the mailing list:
Send a message to shoes AT code.whytheluckystiff.net
Cc: why AT whytheluckystiff.net
The archives are available at gmane.
The Shoes IRC channel is #shoes on irc.freenode.net.
Tell Me More About Shoes!
Well, you see, Shoes is the soul of the new Hackety Hack! At first, I was using Mozilla to build HH, but it was just too unwieldy for me. Shoes uses Cairo and Pango to do its drawing and text layout. And it manipulates Windows, OSX and GTK directly from there.
As a result, lot of Shoes news and experiments happens at Hackety Org.
