World: r3wp

It would be a good community project and would form the basis of 
a good tutorial though. ;-).  Count me in if anyone wants to spearhead 
this.

Rebgui has a calendar and Allen has a calendar style for VID.

http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/browser/widgets/calendar.rand lines 
183-231 from http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/browser/rebgui-widgets.r

I made 'Organised' which was latterly available on Developer IOS. 
 It took a diary-style approach to UI.

Ok thanks

Does anyone know a good tool to make screen records? I want to capture 
a demo trail of my application which I can use for presentaitons.

roboDemo is quite cool

http://www.debugmode.com/wink/

camtasia is my favourite when it comes to screencasts. Easy & intuitive 
and you can obtain previous versions (yet fully functional ones) 
for free.

We use Camtasia as well.

camtasia - until a few days ago.  I think their offer expired.

Hello, I whish to create the DocBase group. Is there with admin priviledge 
that could do this thing ?

no, just create it

Henrik, I just don't know how to create it.

done for you

See !DocBase

Hi Izkata, I have been trying to use your calendar application. When 
I paste Scheduler.r in to view I get the following error message:

** Script Error: Interface has no value
** Near: view/new/title Interface "Calendar"
do %NetworkingStuff.r


when I click on the file it causes view to shut down. What am I doing 
wrong?

uhh

I haven't looked at that for quite a while..  let me get back to 
you

thank you

augh

I made it under Windows, and now I use Ubuntu...  so at the moment 
I can't even get to the error you're seeing (I'm segfault'ing)

I'll be back later

no problem

ScottM, you're on Windows, right?

I've figured out part of what's going on with the calendar - got 
it down to a single line of draw dialect that's causing Rebol to 
segfault, both on the most recent Windows and Linux versions:


view layout [box 120x70 effect [draw [pen red white polygon 0x0 119x0 
119x69 0x69]]]


Something changed between View versions 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 that's causing 
this...  It was working fine with 1.3.1

ScottM, in the main Scheduler.r file, there are two lines in the 
MakeMonth function that use that, and are what are causing it not 
to work (when run from the file, at least).  If you comment them 
out, you lose the nice borders that each day would have in the calendar, 
but it won't crash.


I'll go update what's on Rebol.org, and see if I can make a quick 
workaround or something, so the borders stay.

Okay, it's been updated - and I found another place in it with the 
same problem, so that's been fixed, too

wow thank very much it works well!

regarding Kaj's posts about the OLPC from a couple weeks ago... (i 
think it was in the Syllable group, but i don't want to pollute there)

i've had the chance to chat with one of their developers.

first of all, he tells me that they've never worked to help Microsoft. 
MS has a man that goes to them and asks questions, that's all.

he also says that Windows XP runs on the standard OLPC laptop, no 
need to add more memory. however, to install XP, you need to get 
a developer key, disable the security, flash the firmware, and then 
you can boot it. so, it's not like they're really supporting XP as 
an option.

he says that it's true that Sugar (their UI) is very slow though. 
he says the reasons are python and cairo.

the initial version of the machine was not powerful enough to run 
Sugar. they have bumped the specs for that reason, not to support 
WinXP. also, bumping the specs did not change the price much (a few 
dollars). basicaly, the $100 figure was Negroponte's dream, but he's 
not an engineer. in reality, the laptop never really costed $100.

also, he tells me to beware of some news sources. for example, olpcnews.com 
is owned by an Intel employer. there are a lot of people spreading 
FUD about the project.

even if it's slow, the laptop works *very* well for childrens. they 
learn a lot from it. and one OLPC is stil faster than no laptop at 
all.

gabriele, it's of course against their GPL philosophy, but did you 
talk about REBOL?

(it's a shame REBOL and OLPC don't fit together philosophically)

Thanks for fighting some of the FUD Gabriele.  When are you going 
to publish "The World According to Santilli; Truth trumps Treachery"? 
 ;)

We should offer them R3 View then :-) "Cairo sucks" is my general 
reaction, even if it might not be true ... just to provoke guys a 
bit :-)

Gab, cool dump of info, thanks...  we agree, the OLPC will simply 
get cheaper, faster, and...better, we have to start somewhere...

I don't understand the OLPC project.  9.7M kids die each year under 
the age of 5 ( 50% of them in sub Saharan Africa ), and there's this 
crazy project to give the survivors laptops.  There is little educational 
evidence that computers increase educational outcomes in schools.

I think that someone's world view has to change once they see the 
world through the lens of the WWW. For the better, to feel part of 
a 'smaller', more social world. For the worse (and in the end for 
the better), to see how much worse off you are compared to others 
due to international neglect from rich nations towards the poor ones, 
political corruption, etc. - the pain at the realization of this 
being the catalyst for change. So, it's not strictly about improving 
your ABC's.

What a cool reward!  You've survived a dozen childhood ailments, 
dysentery,  malaria, starvation…and here is a shiny new plastic thing.


 There is little educational evidence that computers increase educational 
 outcomes in schools.

There is little evidence there is little evidence.


We have no idea what the impact of these computers in that environment 
is going to be…lets all be very quiet and not judge for about 20 
years…

I suspect it will help the childrens children

Sure ... a billion Chinese want to have the same shiny tools as those 
in the USA as seen on the WWW, and this is leading to environmental 
disaster in China.

Tomc, who knows what the life of these OLPCs are ... most PCs don't 
last 5 years.

but as the Jesuits say "give me the child and i will give you the 
man"

I thought the Jesuits only spoke in Latin