My car is "falling" off the screen green shoes

Ruby
1

Team,

I am having so much fun with shoes!!!

But, I have a problem. I finally made my car image moves from left to
right. But it reaches the end of the screen on the right and it
disappears.
Can anyone help me keep my car return back to the starting pint, which
is
the left bottom of the screen? I want for that to happen continuously.
The
following is the actual code I’m using:

@carim = image  "/home/rstudent/MyData/Programs/shoes/car1.png"
every 6 do
   animate do |i|
      @carim.left += (-20..50).rand
   end
end

Any help will be appreciated.

2

Hint: Check out the mod function (%). For instance, if you have a
screen of width 20, a car at position 10, and it moves 15 units in
either direction:

irb(main):001:0> a = 10
=> 10
irb(main):002:0> b = a + 15
=> 25 # <— gone off the right edge
irb(main):003:0> c = (a + 15) % 20
=> 5 # <— wrapped around
irb(main):004:0> d = a - 15
=> -5 # <— gone off the left edge
irb(main):005:0> e = (a - 15) % 20
=> 15 # <— wrapped around

martin

3

Hi Martin,

I defined my screen as “fullscreen” and I don’t know how to tell the
actual
size in order to control the car movements. I have the following:
*Shoes.app fullscreen: true, :title => “VRMQMon”, :resizable => true do
*

  1. How does one determine the size of the screen while in full
    screen?
  2. How can I tell when the car reached the edges?

Thank you

4

Hi Ruby S.,

I am having so much fun with shoes!!!
Fantastic! Glad to hear that. :smiley:

Okay, try out the following. :wink:

require ‘green_shoes’
Shoes.app do
@carim = image “/home/rstudent/MyData/Programs/shoes/car1.png”
animate do
@carim.move (@carim.left + 5) % width, @carim.top
end
end

ashbb

5

This also works very nicely!

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my post.

6

and then, a little physics

==========================================================
require ‘green_shoes’

def inside(a,m,b) m<a ? a : (m> b ? b : m) end
def inside?(a,m,b) inside(a,m,b)==m end

Shoes.app :width => 600,:height=> 100 do
info= para “”
@carim = image “car.png” #!!!

speed=10
acceleration=0.0
pos=300

h={“Left” => -0.3 , “Right” => +0.4 }

keypress do |k|
acceleration = inside(-10, (acceleration+(h[k] || 0)) ,+10)
end

animate do
speed+=acceleration
speed*=0.97
acceleration=0
speed *= -1 unless inside?(0,pos+speed,[email protected])
pos=pos+speed
speed=inside(-10,speed,+10)

@carim.move pos, [email protected]
info.replace "  Speed=%5.2f " %[speed]

end
end