World: r3wp

agg-text: it works i wine.

I've got an area field and am using ^S to send text in my chat client. 

I clear the field with face/line-list: none, and face/text: copy 
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but the cursor ends up not at the left edge.  How does one fix that?

system/view/caret points to nirvana?

oh, that carrot thing again ..

Henrik, Petr posted above the exact example I was going to post. 
It's not as much work as you think to derive from FACE or BLANK-FACE. 
The advantage is that there's not all this unused stuff from the 
derived style left hanging around in the face object.

Mmm. FIELD access functions do not take into account whether the 
face has the focus or not. I think they should check that and set 
the caret to the field's new text facet (if it is new).

focus field fixes the caret.

anton, I read it (great stuff), but I currently have problems with 
which method to correctly group faces in the main pane (header, scroller 
and list), and get each face properly initalized. I know LAYOUT does 
this, but I can't use this with already made faces.

ok, haven't gotten very far yet, but http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/list-view3.r

my attempt at a list view based on custom faces. more will come during 
the day... basically only fills out values and the sort buttons react 
visibly, but no sorting happens yet.

I will attempt to make it grow to my previously announced specs.

list is now resizable

now using the standard SCROLLER. I'm not sure if this is a good approach 
for RebGUI...

now supports vertical scrolling

some limited support of images too

its already slow though ... try to drag scroller here or there .....

it's the same routine as I normally use... I might be able to get 
rid of some calculations that are done during draw, when scrolling...

I've turned off the truncate function. did that help?

not sure ... but concentrate upon engine ... there will be place 
to optimise later ...

got rid of a few calculations during scrolling now.

sorting works now. click the button in the upper right corner to 
reset sorting

Can you get multi-line rows ??

probably :-) each row is a layout that can be defined by the user

but the size of a row isn't adapted to the text contents yet

text filtering works now. by entering a string in the field, the 
string will be searched through all values in all columns and only 
display rows with the string in it. currently only searches all columns.

sorting also works after filtering

it suffers one typical problem - at first run, the grid is unsorted 
... once you sort it, you can't "desort" it :-)

click the button in the upper right corner

(should be marked a bit clearer, I know)

There should be at least three states for sort  [ascending, descending 
and unsorted]

Nice! Maybe it would be better to have situation similar to Lotus 
Notes grid? They show thin arrow, if the column is sortable (not 
all are). Then you can sort it up and down and third click deactivates 
sorting. It is kind of natural ...

:-) Jaime was faster :-)

I'll take a look at that

pekr, which kinds of rows can't be sorted?

well, not in our case. But with some older db systems, like xbase 
in DOS, we just had this facility. Not all columns were indexed. 
Sorting non indexed columns was not allowed ...

ok

tristate sorting now available. can be turned off with the TRI-STATE-SORT 
variable.

I will continue tomorrow... bedtime for me

Is there some gotcha with resizing a scroller ?

Scroller/size: newsize show scroller doesn't work.

in vid scrolller/resize new-size ?

oh :)

which reminds me .. is there an updated reference to all the functions 
associated with Vid gadgets, or is it .. read the source time ?

I am to used to the source to look for new documentation.. dont know.

Anyone done a colour wheel/picker ?

IIRC Oldes did something, but don't know. if it's available.

back again.... fixed a bug where resize didn't work during filtering 
and incorrect amount of results when filtering and turning off sorting

graham: it seems the convention is so that when you have a group 
of faces that need to be resized (such as the scroller), you use 
a RESIZE function rather than just a variable.

the filter works on multiple strings and is case insensitive. the 
purpose is to let you very quickly search for things without resorting 
to regular expressions or wildcards, with as few keypunches as possible. 
try entering "shoe" first. then "shoe very". "shoevery" won't produce 
a result

Henrik, that makes sense.

Now, how to change the font size of the font used in an area widget 
?

area/font/size: newsize .. doesn't do it.