motion-now

now

motion-now is a DSL for working with UIViews in your rubymotion application. Now borrows all of it's good ideas from jQuery.

Installation

to install now, run:

gem install motion-now

add the following line to your rubymotion Rakefile

require 'motion-now'

Examples

Creating views

Creating a button that says 'Hi!'

button = Now.button "Say Hi!" do |button|
  button.width 100
  button.height 50
end.click do
  Now.alert "Hi!"
end

self.view.now.add button	

Moving Views Around

circle = Now.view do |view|
	view.size "10x10"
	view.border_radius 10
	view.background_color "#f4f4f4"
end

# To center a view in its parent view
circle.center

# To align in the top-right corner of parent view
# Same as circle.top(0).right(0)
circle.top.right 	

Sizing Views

square = Now.view

# make the height 10px
square.height 10

# every square is the same size on all sides
square.width 10

# there's an easier way
square.size "10x10"
# or ..
square.size [10, 10]

Properties

ball = Now.image "ball.png"

# to hide ball:
ball.hide

# let's bring it back
ball.show

# let's ghostify it
ball.alpha(10)
.shadow(1, 1, 10, "blue")
.add_animation(:giggle)