Roadmap

Roadmap

Shoes 4 aims for almost-complete-compatibility with Shoes 3, so this list of features roughly tracks the Shoes 3 manual.

shoes-4.0.0-alpha

Built-in ✓

• Shoes::VERSION ✓
• alert ✓
• ask ✓
• ask_color ✓
• ask_open_file ✓
• ask_save_file ✓
• ask_open_folder ✓
• ask_save_folder ✓
• confirm ✓

App ✓

• Shoes.app ✓
• clipboard ✓
• clipboard= ✓
• download ✓
• location ✓
• mouse ✓
• owner ✓
• started? ✓
• visit ✓

Styles ✓

• align ✓
• angle ✓
• cap ✓
• change ✓
• checked ✓
• choose ✓
• click ✓
• curve ✓
• fill ✓
• height ✓
• hidden ✓
• inner ✓
• items ✓
• justify ✓
• leading ✓
• margin ✓
• margin_bottom ✓
• margin_left ✓
• margin_right ✓
• margin_top ✓
• outer ✓
• points ✓
• right ✓
• secret ✓
• size ✓
• stroke ✓
• strokewidth ✓
• text ✓
• top ✓
• undercolor ✓
• underline ✓
• width ✓

Classes ✓

(nesting indicates inheritance)

Exceptions

• Exception ✓
  • StandardError ✓

Containers and friends

• Shoes ✓
• Shoes::Flow ✓
• Shoes::Stack ✓
• Shoes::Widget ✓
• Shoes::App ✓

Elements ✓

• Shoes::Color ✓
• Shoes::Download ✓
• Shoes::Image ✓
• Shoes::Button ✓
• Shoes::Check ✓
• Shoes::EditBox ✓
• Shoes::EditLine ✓
• Shoes::ListBox ✓
• Shoes::Progress ✓
• Shoes::Radio ✓
• Shoes::Background ✓
• Shoes::Border ✓

Art ✓

Note that, in Shoes 3, only Shoes::Shape is an actual class

• Shoes::Shape ✓
• Shoes::Arc ✓
• Shoes::Line ✓
• Shoes::Oval ✓
• Shoes::Rect ✓
• Shoes::Star ✓

Text ✓

• Shoes::Text ✓

  • Shoes::Link ✓

• Shoes::TextBlock ✓

  • Shoes::Banner ✓
  • Shoes::Caption ✓
  • Shoes::Inscription ✓
  • Shoes::Para ✓
  • Shoes::Subtitle ✓
  • Shoes::Tagline ✓
  • Shoes::Title ✓

Timers ✓

• Shoes::Animation ✓
• Shoes::Timer ✓

Colors ✓

• full color list ✓
• stroke ✓
• fill ✓
• rgb ✓

Art ✓

Elements ✓

• arc ✓
• line ✓
• oval ✓
• rect ✓
• shape ✓
• star ✓

Styles ✓

• cap ✓
• fill ✓
• nofill ✓
• nostroke ✓
• stroke ✓
• strokewidth ✓

Actions ✓

• rotate ✓

Slots ✓

• flow ✓
• stack ✓

DSL ✓

Elements ✓

• animate ✓
• background ✓
• banner ✓
• border ✓
• button ✓
• caption ✓
• check ✓
• code ✓
• del ✓
• dialog ✓
• edit_box ✓
• edit_line ✓
• em ✓
• every ✓
• flow ✓
• image ✓
• imagesize ✓
• ins ✓
• inscription ✓
• link ✓
• list_box ✓
• progress ✓
• para ✓
• radio ✓
• stack ✓
• strong ✓
• sub ✓
• subtitle ✓
• sup ✓
• tagline ✓
• timer ✓
• title ✓
• window ✓

Events ✓

• click ✓
• hover ✓
• keypress ✓
• leave ✓
• motion ✓
• release ✓

Manipulation ✓

• append ✓
• clear ✓
• prepend ✓

Position ✓

• height ✓
• hide ✓
• left ✓
• move ✓
• remove ✓
• scroll_top ✓
• scroll_top= ✓
• show ✓
• style ✓
• toggle ✓
• top ✓
• width ✓

Traversing ✓

• contents ✓
• parent ✓

Patterns ✓

• gradient ✓
• image ✓

Manual

• update manual content
• produce manual as HTML, for website ✓

Shoes Interfaces ✓

• Shoes CLI ✓

Packaging ✓

Packaging Apps ✓

Packaging Shoes ✓

• package Shoes as .gem ✓

shoes-4.0.0-rc1

Built-in

• Shoes::RELEASE_NAME
• Shoes::RELEASE_ID
• Shoes::REVISION
• Shoes::FONTS
• debug
• error
• exit
• font
• gradient
• gray
• info
• rgb (also available as Shoes.rgb)
• warn

App

• Shoes.APPS
• close
• download
• location
• mouse
• owner
• started?
• visit

Styles

• attach
• bottom
• center
• change
• displace_left
• displace_top
• emphasis
• family
• font
• group
• kerning
• rise ✓
• scroll
• state
• stretch
• strikecolor ✓
• strikethrough ✓
• variant
• weight
• wrap

Classes

(nesting indicates inheritance)

Exceptions

• Exception ✓
  • StandardError ✓
    • Shoes::ImageError
    • Shoes::InvalidModeError
    • Shoes::NotImplementedError
    • Shoes::SettingUp

Containers and friends

• Shoes::Widget ✓

  • Shoes::TurtleCanvas

• Shoes::App ✓

  • Shoes::Dialog

• Shoes::Window

Elements

Be aware that some of those might be implementation details of the old shoes and therefore not really needed to be implemented.

• Shoes::Canvas
• Shoes::Effect
• Shoes::LinkUrl
• Shoes::Mouse
• Shoes::Search

Art

Note that, in Shoes 3, only Shoes::Shape is an actual class

• Shoes::Arrow

Text

• Shoes::Text
  • Shoes::Code
  • Shoes::Del
  • Shoes::Em
  • Shoes::Ins
  • Shoes::LinkHover
  • Shoes::Span
  • Shoes::Strong
  • Shoes::Sub
  • Shoes::Sup

Timers

• Shoes::Every

Colors ✓

Art

Elements

• arrow

Styles ✓

Actions

• transform
• translate

Slots ✓

DSL

Elements

• span

Events

• finish
• start

Manipulation

• after
• before

Position

• displace
• gutter
• scroll
• scroll_height
• scroll_max
• scroll_top
• scroll_top=

Traversing ✓

Patterns ✓

Manual

• update manual content
• auto-generate manual as HTML, for website
• auto-generate manual as Shoes, for Shoes GUI
• auto-generate manual from Shoes CLI

Shoes Interfaces

• Shoes GUI (i.e. Shoes written in Shoes)

Packaging

Packaging Apps

• package apps as .jar ✓
• package apps as .app ✓
• package apps as .shy
• package apps as .exe
• package apps for linux (format yet to be determined: .run/.deb/.rpm ???)

Packaging Shoes

• package Shoes as .gem ✓
• package Shoes as .app
• package Shoes as .exe
• package Shoes for linux (format yet to be determined: .run/.deb/.rpm ???)

shoes-4.1.0

Styles

• autoplay

Classes

• Exception ✓
  • StandardError ✓
    • Shoes::VideoError

DSL

Elements

• video