Shoebot

For LibreGraphics meeting we made our 1.0 release, we also previewed the
Livecoding branch.

A number of nice examples were made by workshop attendees and added to
shoebot:
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We also got lots of good feedback which should be incorporated into
future versions.

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This was a pre-release in the runup to LibreGraphics Meeting.
We moved from gitorious to github in the interim.

New features:

* Colors library supports loading from .zip, to speed up insall
* Re-enabled supershape - make it buildable with cython instead of C
* Redirect shoebot.net to github pages + make them primary.

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The main focus has once again been on improving compatibility
with nodebox, crossing a major milestone with the 'evolution'
example from nodebox working unmodified.

0.4.x

2012-01-30

New features:
* Remove OS2 from setup.py.

Compatibility:
* Enable importing from `nodebox.*` namespace
* Added launch script for Windows users.
* Change URL to shoebot.net

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0.3 included changes to make building debian packages easier.

New features
* Many Tweaks to help build debian packages.
* Removed sbopencv - binary blob was stopping debian building.
* Removed shoebot-ide

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Shoebot got the love of some very talented hackers, and a truckload of lovely
features saw the light of day:

New features:
* colors can be specified using hexcolour values (e.g. FF00FF)
* fill and/or stroke values can be specified using keyword arguments (e.g.
a = Rect(x,y,w,h,fill='FF00FF'))
* experimental animation support
* internationalization
* transforms were overhauled, and are now fully consistent with Nodebox
behaviour
* clipping paths!
* a powerful text API was introduced using Pango, matching and even
extending Nodebox's capabilities, and working great with transforms
* image support is now there, and working great!
* ximport() can now be used to import Nodebox's libraries
* many Nodebox libraries ported and included in Shoebot! Boids, Cornu,
Database, Ants, Photobot, Supershape, SVG and Web are fully working (as
far as we could determine! :) ; Colors and L-System are partially working.
* easteregg(x,y,size) ;)
* GIMP colour palette import!
* repeat mode (-r) in commandline mode to output multiple images
* fullscreen mode!
* new example scripts
* Shoebot now runs on Windows, and the IDE too!
* new goodies in the Shoebot IDE: error reporting console, layout
dimensions, about item, file dialogue, Ctrl+F shortcut, GNOME Desktop
entry
* preliminary mouse events implementation in GTK mode

Bug fixes:
* drawpath() and findpath() are working; drawpath() can be used with images
as well (load once, use many times)
* bounding box calculations for line() are fixed
* fixed order of buttons on quit - save file dialogue in shoebot-ide

API changes:
* big rewrite of the code structure; now there are generic Bot and Canvas
classes, equivalent to a 'context' and a 'surface', but differently named
to avoid confusion with Cairo; those can be subclassed to implement new
languages (see NodeBot class for the implementation of Nodebox) and new
graphical backends (see CairoCanvas).
* the 'Box' class was renamed to 'Bot'
* oval() deprecated and introduced ellipse(), the correct term for this
operation

Shoebot says hello world!