How to reload the downloadable shoe app after making changes to the source code?

Question

I would like to start messing around with Shoes . There is one thing that I cannot understand. How to restart the "Current Shoes" application after saving changes in the source code? I already found hotkeys for opening help, console and a new application.

It seems strange to me that the developer will be forced to close and restart the Shoes app every time a change is made. For a development environment that prides itself on being web-like, where is the corresponding “F5 key” located?

Perhaps I missed something or was looking for the wrong place.

Answer 1

There is currently no such shortcut. Only three shortcuts to which you refer are mentioned in the documentation (alt + slash for the console, alt + question for reference and alt + period for a new application), and indeed, the code contains only these shortcuts. Indeed, shoes/app.c has the following lines:

 shoes_code shoes_app_keypress(shoes_app *app, VALUE key) { if (key == symAltSlash) rb_eval_string("Shoes.show_log"); else if (key == symAltQuest) rb_eval_string("Shoes.show_manual"); else if (key == symAltDot) rb_eval_string("Shoes.show_selector"); else shoes_canvas_send_keypress(app->canvas, key); return SHOES_OK; } 

In other words, three well-known shortcuts are captured and processed specially, while any other keystroke is sent to the corresponding application.

However, it may be possible to write your own “wrapper” that will accomplish your desired task.