Wondering about various switch controls and how to give guidelines for their use, I ended up designing an alternative UI for editing the course page (discussion).
As the plans to usability test a part of Moodle as a part of this project have not become reality as easily as I hoped, I was wondering if testing this idea would take on. So I needed a prototype, and then I remembered Shoes, which I had hoped to try out. It seemed like a toolkit to build something pretty quickly.
I needed something to tinker with in midst of my flu since I could not do anything very intensive, so I started playing. And now I have something of a prototype. And it works out of the box in Windows, Linux and OS X. \o/ Plus, I have learned a bit of Ruby, though umh, in a somewhat unorthodox manner. Including tweaking, all this took me a couple hours of coding during three days, plus a fourth day to start learning the thing.
I am not sure how to combine object-oriented programming with Shoes’ way of outputting things, to iterate over the code, so I only have one ‘resource’ so far. I will have to figure out how to fix that. An upside is that he code is so ugly and unmaintainable that hopefully no one would ever consider growing production software out of a quick prototype built with that…
I am so exhausted. Next: staring at the ceiling for about 36 hours.
