What’s this? It’s hard to make a .shy file using Shoes Curious?
Yeah, someone told me that too. So when I wanted to make a shy I looked at this howto and that code stuff workt good.
So I says to myself, “Hey, self, why not wrap a shoes app around this code?” and then I says, “What, you mean like this?” and then this app happened.
Now I’ve only tested this on Shoes Curious for Win2k and WinXP. I’ll value comments as to whether it works on Mac or Posix.
Speak now or forever hold your peace:
It works fine for me in OS X. The lines of text are way cramped, such that the text fields overlap each other, but to be honest I’m not sure that Curious is laying it out correctly. Seems like the contents of a Flow would increase its size vertically?
Indeed. Here on Windows, when you narrow the window it’s like the edit box will anchor itself to the left without actually moving to the next line. Quite peculiar.
So I used some formatty tricks. I still can’t center the buttons though, nothing I try works.
We warned: per shoes bug #95 if you make the window too short the form elements will not scroll with the window text, and will get out of alignment.
Also, I must figure out how a rescue clause works so that if you try making a shy and get something wrong, I can make it stop saying “please wait”. The commented out code I have there works, but suppresses the informational pop up of the error! :(
Here on Windows, when you try.
What I’ll also value is if someone wants to pretty this up that would be ok. :) It looks the ugly and whatnot. It needs some lining up and some spacing.