shape method

[matrushka]

There is no way to draw a shape which i load by using load_shape method. Yet i can draw it if i comment out the shape method in the app.rb file of ruby-processing. There must be a proper way to draw SVG shapes.

[monkstone]

Try this code:-

size(200,200)
background(255)
smooth()

star= load_shape("star.svg")
shape(star, 5, 5)

with this svg

git://gist.github.com/758361.git

Overwriting the "app.rb" seems a bit extreme...

[matrushka]

i know yet when i try

class IstanbulMigration < Processing::App

  def setup
    @main_shape = load_shape("turkey_textless.svg")
    smooth
    no_loop
  end

  def draw
    shape(@main_shape)
  end

end

IstanbulMigration.new :title => "IstanbulMigration", :width => 1000, :height => 500

without overwriting it says

Exception in thread "Animation Thread" /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/ruby-processing-1.0.9/lib/ruby-processing/app.rb:259:in `shape': no beginShape with arguments matching [class processing.core.PShapeSVG] on object #<Processing::App:IstanbulMigration:IstanbulMigration> (NameError)

using the shape method as below does not helps either

shape(@main_shape,0,0)

only solution that worked in my case was overwriting app.rb

[matrushka]

i just checked the latest version of source on github and saw that shape method in app.rb is removed i guess one installed with the gem is the old version. i cloned the gem and installed from the sourced and now it works.