As part of my effort to detect objects using opencv I have found myself performing a mind numbing task and as every lazy programmer knows this is the time to build a tool.
After a bit of investigation into the various gui libraries for ruby I have found one that seems pretty good called Ruby Shoes. There seem to be a few variants of this particular library. Strangely the classic Red Ruby Shoes version does not act like a regular ruby library. It seems to be a runtime that uses ruby. The Green Shoes variant however is a straightforward ruby library. You can gem install green_shoes and get up and running straight away.
A gui application in Ruby Shoes is called a shoe app and is started by calling:
Shoes.app do # application code goes here title "Hello World!" end
As I want to create an image selection tool I need to be able to track mouse clicks, movements and releases and then draw a rectangle as this is going on.
After playing around for a while I came up with this:
require 'green_shoes'
Shoes.app do
title "Selection tool"
image("your_image.jpg").click do |button, click_left, click_top|
mouse_down = true
release do
mouse_down = false
end
nofill
@selection = rect :left => mouse[1], :top => mouse[2], :width => 1, :height => 1
motion do |move_left, move_top|
if mouse_down
width = move_left - click_left
height = move_top - click_top
width = 1 if width < 1
height = 1 if height < 1
@selection.style(:width => width, :height => height)
end
end
end
end
There are probably more efficient ways to handle the release but this was the best I could come up with in half an hour.
I found the manual quite helpful to figure all this out.
