# Shoes 0xFF

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-0xff/196517>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 15, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-0xff/196517 "2007-11-15T14:52:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![S\_why](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@S\_why](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S_why)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-0xff/196517/1 "2007-11-15T14:52:19Z")

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Hello, wondering if I could have a word concerning Shoes.

Shoes is a tiny, cross-platform windowing toolkit. Think of it as a  
minimalist apprach to wxWidgets or QT, but taking its cues from  
web browsers, REBOL/View, Processing and NodeBox. And, of course,  
apps are written, without remorse, in Ruby.

A simple example:

Shoes.app {  
button(“Press Me”) {  
alert(“Didn’t think you had the nerve.”)  
}  
}

To celebrate the 255th checkin, it’s time for some decent builds for  
each platform. Please see the downloads page for various Windows,  
OS X, Linux and source code distros:

[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/wiki/DownloadShoes](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/wiki/DownloadShoes)

In addition, I’m pleased to add that Shoes already has an  
illustrated paper manual entitled “Nobody Knows Shoes.” So true!  
This manual covers the ten most essential parts of Shoes using  
cartoons and photodrama.

[Page Not Found | Lulu](http://www.lulu.com/content/1365064)

And that’s about all that’s going on right now. The mailing list is  
very busy and helpful right now. More about that on the wiki:  
[http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/shoes/)

Well, to the moon,

\_why

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**Author:** ![S\_why](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@S\_why](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/S_why)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/shoes-0xff/196517/2 "2007-11-15T14:58:46Z")

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Woohoo!! Some shoes news 😛