[ANN] Shoes 4 pre2 released!

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Hello fellow (J)Rubyists,
The Shoes team has put in some extra work so at long last, we’ve finally
gotten the next pre-release version (4.0.0.pre2) of Shoes out onto
Rubygems. Hurray!

Shoes is a little gui toolkit for Ruby that is currently under a rewrite
but quite far along the road. It uses JRuby + SWT as a default backend
but is built in a way that allows multiple backends.

Feel free to check the repo out here: GitHub - shoes/shoes4: Shoes 4 : the next version of Shoes

You can install the gem with this simple command:

gem install shoes --pre

The biggest change (aside from nice new features and bug fixes listed in
our neatly updated CHANGELOG!) is that Shoes now ships as three separate
gems:

  • shoes – Home to the shoes executable. Declares dependencies on other
    shoes gems for ease of installation.
  • shoes-dsl – Code for the Shoes DSL. No direct UI rendering and will
    be reused with all future backends.
  • shoes-swt – The first Shoes backend, implemented in JRuby on the SWT
    library via the swt gem.

The gem command should pick up those additional dependencies, though, so
you still only have to say gem install shoes --pre to get the latest
goodness.

As always, we’d love for you to try it out and let us know of any bugs
you see along the way.

Huge thanks to all the awesome folks who contributed to this release. <3

If you’re interested in the details, here goes the changelog:

4.0.0.pre2 (438 commits)

New features (2)

  • Shoes 4.0.0.pre1 was a single gem. Now we ship as as three gems
    [e16a0c4]:

    • shoes – Home to the shoes executable. Declares dependencies on
      other
      shoes gems for ease of installation.
    • shoes-dsl – Code for the Shoes DSL. No direct UI rendering and will
      be
      reused with all future backends.
    • shoes-swt – The first Shoes backend, implemented in JRuby on the
      SWT
      library via the swt gem.

  • Full style-setting functionality (element#style, setters, hash, app
    level) [56d91f8]

Improvements (36)

  • Update SWT to 4.4 [536ffae]
  • Update packaging dependency to 0.2.0 now supporting rubyzip > 1.0
    [c3dd289]
  • Update all elements to use new style methods [1b76aa3, 29498d1,
    d569a77, e6eec90, 54e5edf, 1238977, 2dc222f, dbeffff, 25b2ec6, cb865a6,
    49fa0a1]
  • Update list of app level styles and partially fix rotate angle issues
    [2affdbb]
  • Shoes application context improved to avoid conflicts between
    user-defined and shoes-defined methods. [732108a]
  • Builtin methods are also available from the Shoes class [de37d59]
  • #gray, #rgb and #gradient builtin methods [8f7ee92]
  • Removed redrawing triggers after Dimension methods [61a55ba]
  • Apply fraction from progress initialize [b241240]
  • Trigger redraw on hover/leave for slot and image update [ae5dfb5]
  • Nobody Knows Shoes samples added [68e84e6]
  • Add sample56 snapshot [e7eb0d3]
  • Add scroll* methods to slots. Scrolling functionality not implemented
    yet. [6fb0e79]
  • Click passes element, not coordinates to most blocks [78ecb23]
  • Allow button calls without a button name [a315ef4]
  • Add common #to_s and #inspect methods for DSL objects [350c4dc]
  • Disposal for Images and Patterns. [ddcd9fb]
  • Move Swt::TextBlock related classes to subdirectory. [226e03f]
  • Revise TextBlock cursor to be more like other text functionality.
    [f016ee7]
  • Updated manual to show correct syntax for rect. [2fee530]
  • App#parent method to show the parent of the slot currently evaled
    [48e811f]
  • Add keypress to close app cleanly when running leak hunter and dispose
    of app-level resources. [af4d6bb]

Bug Fixes (32)

  • Fix running bin/shoes.bat from source [fe47075]
  • Move shoes executable from shoes-dsl to shoes [92583e6]
  • Fix for crash on empty link text [3da3159]
  • Hide only the elements of a slot, not its parent contents [f2ea17c]
  • Fix crash for Border when hiding [1c2ab74]
  • Methods defined in widgets are available in URL instances [3a94afb]
  • Make texts know their TextBlock and hence their visibility [7b4ea24]
  • Non resizable apps can not be maximized (fixes resizable on mac) #872
    [b08b215]
  • Keypress#remove removes the keys listener and does not blow up
    [498588c]
  • Run shape blocks with app as self [dbb0a46]
  • When an element is removed or removed, cursor shouldn’t change shape
    over that location. [918288f, 7fcd93a]
  • Removing children from slot should trigger redraw [be35743]
  • Fix for allowing widgets to use widget DSL methods [99d22e1]
  • Fix for secret on edit lines [79c4c98]
  • Fix crash computing height with hidden elements [41ebafe]
  • Fix for unbounded height crash on centering [11fc3ae]
  • Windows build requires shoes.bat from ext/install [232ec68]
  • Reuse created fonts in the factory [7959bd8]
  • Disposal of Shape SWT resources. [650365b]
  • Fix for offsetting of second text segments [97fe79b]
  • Consider relatively positioned elements for slot height [3e71126]
  • Fix fatal exceptions in samples/simple-calc.rb [d53d588]
  • Fix slot clearing [3697802]
  • Don’t clear top_slot when clear is called, clear current_slot
    [a57778c]
  • Handling for text centering [87405f5]
  • Fix common remove to allow removal of slots [c25df7e]
  • Clear transform after painting each object, to avoid side effects on
    other painters [5a57ce3]
  • Fix off by one error in slot positioning. [baee69a]
  • Dispose of transform resources. [265600c]
  • Only report start/end relative to the parent if there is one [c82e763]
  • Links must be cleared on TextBlock#replace [4b90786]

Contributors (16)

Jason R. Clark, Eric Watson, Tobias P., KC Erb, Charles
Chamberlain,
George, Marcell Monteiro Cruz, Glenn Murray, Jason Clark, Tim Krajcar,
glenn-murray-bse, KCErb, PeterWAWood, Suirtimed, ashbb, Carlos R Tirado

Shoes on!