require 'glimmer-dsl-libui' # Michael Ende (1929-1995) # The Neverending Story is a fantasy novel by German writer Michael Ende, # The English version, translated by Ralph Manheim, was published in 1983. class BasicDrawText include Glimmer def alternating_color_string(initial: false, &block) @index = 0 if initial @index += 1 string { if @index.odd? color r: 128, g: 0, b: 64, a: 0.7 else color r: 0, g: 128, b: 0, a: 0.7 end block.call + "\n\n" } end def launch window('Michael Ende (1929-1995) The Neverending Story', 600, 400) { margined true area { on_draw do |area_draw_params| text { # default arguments for x, y, and width are (0, 0, area_draw_params[:area_width]) # align :left # default alignment default_font family: 'Georgia', size: 13, weight: :medium, italic: :normal, stretch: :normal alternating_color_string(initial: true) { ' At last Ygramul sensed that something was coming toward ' \ 'her. With the speed of lightning, she turned about, confronting ' \ 'Atreyu with an enormous steel-blue face. Her single eye had a ' \ 'vertical pupil, which stared at Atreyu with inconceivable malignancy. ' } alternating_color_string { ' A cry of fear escaped Bastian. ' } alternating_color_string { ' A cry of terror passed through the ravine and echoed from ' \ 'side to side. Ygramul turned her eye to left and right, to see if ' \ 'someone else had arrived, for that sound could not have been ' \ 'made by the boy who stood there as though paralyzed with ' \ 'horror. ' } alternating_color_string { ' Could she have heard my cry? Bastion wondered in alarm. ' \ "But that's not possible. " } alternating_color_string { ' And then Atreyu heard Ygramuls voice. It was very high ' \ 'and slightly hoarse, not at all the right kind of voice for that ' \ 'enormous face. Her lips did not move as she spoke. It was the ' \ 'buzzing of a great swarm of hornets that shaped itself into ' \ 'words. ' } } end } }.show end end BasicDrawText.new.launch