Baby Steps

Here's a no-frills Shoes app which shows you a text version of the "Shoes in its Entirety" documentation.

Copy and paste the code here:

 class Entirety < Shoes
   Shoes.app :width => 523, :height => 716 do
     # teh data
     ENTIRETY = YAML.load_file('samples/entirety.yaml')
     # adapted from _why's book example; clunky results
     entirety_hash = {}
     ENTIRETY.each {|thing| entirety_hash[thing[0]] = thing[1]}

     # teh dropdown
     @box = list_box :items => ENTIRETY.map {|thing| thing[0]} do
       contents.each { |option| option.hide if option.is_a? Shoes::Stack }
       instance_variable_get("@#{@box.text.gsub(/ |\&/, "_")}").show
     end

     # teh infos
     entirety_hash.each do |category, text|
       instance_variable_set("@#{category.gsub(/ |\&/, "_")}", stack :hidden => true do
         text.split(/\n+/).each do |p|
           para p
         end
       end)
     end
   end
 end
 

Or download it here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/giles/entirety.rb

The data file is here:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/giles/entirety.yaml