Shoes (GUI Toolkit)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Shoes is a simplified experimental GUI toolkit based on the Ruby Programming Language, developed by why the lucky stiff and others. Its simplicity allows easy access to programming for those with few skills or little experience in programming, thus it is ideal for education. Shoes runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (GTK+), using the underlying technologies of Cairo and Pango. The syntax utilises the basic ideas of stacks and flows, which in Shoes correspond (roughly speaking) to windows and their contents.