Shoes is a simple Ruby GUI toolkit for building cross-platform desktop applications. It uses Ruby and has an easy to learn API. Shoes allows creating basic apps with buttons, text, and color selection. While it has limitations like weak graphic support and no tabbed controls, Shoes is suitable for simple games, widgets, and learning programming fundamentals in Ruby. Developers get started by downloading Shoes, creating a Ruby file, and running code to build an interactive app.

1. SHOES!!!policeman (3.0)sweet desktop apps in rubyJeremy Woertink

2. Making sweet sweet love to desktop apps

3. Cross OS CompatibleWin 7, Vista, XP; OSX Tiger, Leopard, Snow (Lion coming soon); UbuntuUses Ruby (1.9.1. no need for a pre-install)

4. Easy to learn API

5. Built with Cairo (http://cairographics.org/)The "Tiny Toolkit"Sketchy video support

6. No tabbed controls

7. No toolbars

8. No Web controlsLUCKILY.........everything can be simulated in some way.

9. Dirty Shoes

10. How does it work?No effing clue.....Chipmunk, bloopsaphone, sqlite, C stuff, built-in ruby, NodeBox, Processing.....

11. Poor Shoes

12. What are some downsides?C-extension gems(special compilation needed)

13. Different Linux distros(some don't work)

14. Strict Ruby version(1.9.1 with related issues)

15. No UI Helpers(no drag and drop UI like Visual Studio)

16. Windows memory management *

17. Weak "graphic" support(color, gradient, resizing issues)Don't fret! It's still in active development :)

18. Clown Shoes?

19. What the hell is it for?Learning Programming

20. Learning Ruby

21. Passing time

22. Building small "widget" apps

23. Mini games (tetris clone, etc)

24. http://the-shoebox.org/Running Shoes!

25. Getting startedDownload (http://shoesrb.com/downloads)

26. Install

27. Create *.rb file with code

28. Read some tutorials

29. http://cloud.github.com/downloads/shoes/shoes/nks.pdf

30. http://shoesrb.com/manual/Hello.html

31. https://github.com/ashbb/shoes_tutorial_walkthrough

32. Run!Simple shoes

33. Lets see some code! Shoes.app do para "Hello World" end

34. That's it! Questions?

35. JUST KIDDING!

36. Ok, here's more examples Shoes.app:title=>'Sample'dobutton"Click"doalert"WHOA!"endend

37. and more.... Shoes.app:width=>640,:height=>480dobackground"#f90"@self=selfbutton"Change Color"dobgcolor=ask_color("Pick a new background color") @self.appdobackground bgcolorend end end

38. and more....Shoes.appdo@self =self left, top =nil, nil line_sizes = {large:10, medium:5, small:1} line_color, line_width = red, line_sizes[:medium] stroke line_color strokewidth line_width animate 24do b, x, y = @self.mouse line(left, top, x, y) if b ==1 left, top = x, y end button("clear") { background "#fff" } button("New Color") { @self.stroke ask_color("Pick a new background color") } list_box items: ["Large", "Medium", "Small"], choose:'Medium'do |selected| @self.strokewidth line_sizes[selected.text.downcase.to_sym]endend# BAM! Paint program in 18 lines of ruby :)

39. What else is there?

40. Just a few things....images (background, image, drawing)

41. file diaglog (save, open)

42. download (like XMLHttpRequest)

43. text fields

44. text areas

45. radio buttons

46. check boxes

47. progress bar

48. video support

49. links

50. timers for events

51. paragraphs and headers

52. multiple windowsCheck the manual for more: http://shoesrb.com/manual/Shoes.html

53. Your turn.