World: r3wp

This may be of help: http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/cookbook.html#section-2

If I download an exe file with a unique icon when I save it I get 
the widows default icon for exe's.

I'm using 'read-thru'  to download and 'write' to save it locally.

I'll look it over. Thanks Ashley.

I'm  not able to create an .exe with enface using drag and drop (as 
described in the intro doc). I'm using xp pro. 

Where is the exe placed after creation. The sdk bin folder? or the 
scripts folder? or somewhere else?

Found Gregg's EnList script. Cute and helpfull. I was able to encap 
the test scripts with it but drag and drop does not seem to work.

I've seen reference to "rebolve". Is this a rebol inc product?

I think there were some known issues with DnD. I never encap that 
way. Normally I have a build script that does one or more things, 
including encapping and using reshacker to replace icons in the EXE.

kib, you use the SDK to build .exe files. It's commercial.

Geomol: so that's a problem (for me indeed)

http://www.rebol.com/sdk.html

There is an alternate method, but it's not nearly as good. Don't 
remember what it's called though.

Henrik: but the SDK costs 249$ ! I'm not a professional programmer. 
Programming is just a hobby for me.

Why do you need .exe?

I saw this question many times before in Lisp community !  This is 
just to distibute my programs to non-programmers. It's just easier.

Well yes, it may be. A way to let others run your REBOL programs, 
is also to make a Reb Site in the REBOL Viewtop. Have you looked 
around the Viewtop, you see, when you start REBOL?

yes, it's unfortunately the only way to build executables properly. 
I hope with R3, the process will both be easier and less necessary 
where R3 becomes a more browser-like platform for launching programs. 
One that people will better understand than the Viewtop.

The Reb Sites are located, if you click the REBOL.com icon in the 
Viewtop, then Public/Sites/

Geomol: Yes, I had a look at Reb Sites and I've seen a lot of good 
demos there. You mean all those apps are cloud located, I just have 
to upload mine in my repos and that's it ?

yes

and how can we set a repository ?

kib2, the Viewtop just downloads index.r files from ordinary websites.

Henrik: so simple...so rebol !

There's no repository. it's just like serving webpages, only presented 
differently. Viewtop can just organize them via an index file from 
Rebol technologies.

I use the Viewtop to distribute my programs to customers.

Henrik: it seems like an interesting alternative.

R3 will not use the Viewtop. It's a distribution model that Carl 
did not endorse as the metaphor is too confusing for web usage. Instead 
it will use a script that resembles a webbrowser, with a canvas and 
a URL bar, bookmarks, etc.

then when you go to http://somewhere.com/index.r, it loads a "rebpage", 
i.e. VID layout right in the canvas.

and after that, the world will hopefullly be amazed. :-)

because it basically sets out to solve all shortcomings of web2.0 
apps, while staying in the browser/internet metaphor.

Henrik: so all those nice Rebol R3 GUIs are supposed to work online 
? Really ?

kib, you can also use the Viewtop to let others run your programs, 
but with adding your site under Public/Sites/. If you click the "Goto" 
menu button, you can enter an URL for an index.r file, you have somewhere 
on the internet. And from there launch your programs.

with = without

they already do. you can do all this the same way in R2 by going 
to the console and typing:

do http://www.somewhere.com/script.r

the browser will just present the scripts a little differently.

Geomol: that's really cool. And inside my index.r, I just have to 
write the references to all my rebol scripts ?

An index.r file can look like this:
http://home9.inet.tele.dk/johnn/index.r

You can have references to REBOL script, but also to HTML pages, 
documents, images, etc etc.

Geomol: that's really simple.

yes, REBOL is really simple! :-)

From your two points of view, should I start playing with R2 or switch 
to R3 direclty (even if it's buggy)?

So you can think of the Viewtop as kind of a browser, than can link 
together content from all over the internet.

Start with R2. If you have time left, look at R3 too.

I agree with Geomol. You probably probably won't bump into too many 
shortcomings in R2 this early.

Ok, so I've prepared some Rebol lectures for tonight. I have to go. 
Let me thank you for your kindness, and I hope to see you soon here.

A lot of what you do will run in R3 too. GUI have some changes, but 
you can go develop final programs in R2 now.

have fun!

Bye!

bye kib!

yes R2 is a viable tool for commercial apps, Ive done a few.

have fun kib :-)

You know, that is interesting looking back at the ViewTop.  It's 
not something I played with and have even forgotten about.  I'll 
need to relook at that.