r3wp [groups: 83 posts: 189283]
  • Home
  • Script library
  • AltME Archive
  • Mailing list
  • Articles Index
  • Site search
 

World: r3wp

[!RebGUI] A lightweight alternative to VID

Volker
11-Jun-2005
[1343]
maybe we should think about a name change? rebface looks a lot like 
"the face inbuild in rebol." rebgui works as "a gui for rebol", but 
rebface?
Robert
11-Jun-2005
[1344x2]
Ashley: How about adding a main link to each rebgui document to go 
back to start page of RebGUI.
Where is the word "cascade" used? I'm currently doing the german 
translation.
shadwolf
11-Jun-2005
[1346x2]
Perk the translucent window capability is anOS feature that I request 
since lot of time but the key point is that this function is only 
accessible for some OS and for Linux it's a enligntenement layer 
(doesn't work with other X11 based windows manager ) example eterm 
is translucent but works only with enligtenment windows manager (the 
ones that comes with gnome )
in a short time the Windows REBOL/View will need to adapt to the 
need WinFX library that will replace Win32 API starting from LongHorn 
so VID  back ground will need to change ... Maybe this could open 
to the WinFX/Avalon 3D design capability directly from VID
Ashley
11-Jun-2005
[1348x2]
Cascade: Opera. Option to cascade or tile windows.
If anyone can work out why popup/away doesn't work from within display 
(by uncommenting the display line and commenting the view line), 
please let me know.

	REBOL []

	do %rebgui.r

	;display "test" [
	view layout [

  button "Click here" [show-popup/away make system/standard/face [] 
  do-events]
		text "Then here."
	]

	do-events

It would be very good to get this working [with RebGUI].
Graham
11-Jun-2005
[1350x4]
so, what is happening is that when using display, the popup appears 
only momentarily and then disappears
Is there a way to initiate an action on clicking specific tabs of 
the tab panel?
forinstance, if the data for a panel is held by a database, and I 
want to update it as that tab is selected ...
perhaps as an optional block of actions which can be used by the 
engage function
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1354x3]
Ok, new SLIDER demo:
load-thru/update site/rebgui/slider.r
do site/rebgui/demo-slider.r
site: http://www.lexicon.net/antonr/rebol/
ChristianE
12-Jun-2005
[1357]
Anton, these are very nice, finally, grabbing the draggers by mouse 
works as expected. Nice, again.
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1358]
Thankyou. If you look, everything is rendered using DRAW dialect, 
no subfaces, pane is none. :)
ChristianE
12-Jun-2005
[1359]
I know, the RebGUI approach ...
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1360]
... which I thought should speed it up and make it easier to iterate 
in a list.
ChristianE
12-Jun-2005
[1361x2]
Didn't look in the source, but: the arrows self-contained in the 
slider?
... are ...
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1363]
Yes, arrows are drawn in slider-face/effect/draw block.
ChristianE
12-Jun-2005
[1364]
Ok, I see. Nice work, once again.
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1365]
It has a small visual bug, which does not affect the functionality; 
the end of the dragger sometimes is drawn a pixel too far. I think 
it is a floating-point error somewhere, the trapping of which I don't 
have much experience in...
ChristianE
12-Jun-2005
[1366]
Now that's what I call understatement! You're definitly one of the 
VID style gurus, I'm sure you can handle that little rounding error 
:D
Pekr
12-Jun-2005
[1367x2]
something's wrong here. I will probably try to reinstall View. But 
- I pointed installation to C:\Rebol\View IIRC, including the cache, 
yet, view-root points to C:\Documents and settings\blabal
maybe user settings could contain such info. How do I find out?
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1369]
when you install, you have an option to set the temporary file directory
Pekr
12-Jun-2005
[1370x3]
Why is it not part of the registry at least? Or is it?
I set it into C:\rebol\view IIRC. But I will better reinstall. I 
installed on my work pc, notebook and  home pc, maybe I am confused 
...
by temp you mean public? (cache?)
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1373]
that directory you refer to "C:\documents ... blah " is the rebol 
temp directory
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1374]
In the registry the Sandbox value --->  view-root
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1375x2]
I think used for sites etc.
I couldnt' get Anton's slider to work on this account
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1377x2]
and then  view-root/public/
Graham, is there an error message ? RebGUI is now at 0.3.0, Rebol/View 
is at 1.3.0 (I am sure you noticed.. :) and demo-slider.r 1.0.2, 
slider.r 1.0.3
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1379]
>> view-root
== %/d/rebol/view/temp
>> site: http://www.lexicon.net/antonr/rebol/
== http://www.lexicon.net/antonr/rebol/
>> load-thru/update site/rebgui/slider.r
== [
    context [
        slider: [
            size: 4x40
            data: 0
            color: ctx-rebgui/colors/widget
    ...
>> do site/rebgui/demo-slider.r

** Access Error: Cannot open /d/rebol/view/programs/rebgui/rebgui.r
** Where: halt-view
** Near: do view-root/../programs/rebgui/rebgui.r
include [
    site/rebgui/slider.r [slider]
]
query/clear
Pekr
12-Jun-2005
[1380]
hmm, I reinstalled View and now I can see even Public icon on the 
desktop. It was not there before. However, I wonder about following 
- I installed into C:\rebol\view and set cache path to c:\rebol\view\public 
- is that correct? What happens if I install for another account? 
Can I share cache, or will it be deleted?
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1381x2]
It's expecting to find rebgui in /d/rebol/view/programs/rebgui/
wonder why ...
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1383x2]
Ah, sorry Graham, I forgot to mention you will need to modify demo-slider.r 
to point to your installation of rebgui 0.3.0...
The reason is there's no easy way for a rebol script such as this 
to install rebgui from the zipped distribution.
Pekr
12-Jun-2005
[1385x2]
the same here ...
yes, zip:// scheme - would be usefull, along with encryption :-)
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1387]
working now ..
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1388]
zip isn't needed for this at all. We have compress and decompress.
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1389]
need some type of convention to call third party scripts
Anton
12-Jun-2005
[1390]
I could handle it by keeping a distribution of rebgui on my site, 
unpacked.
Pekr
12-Jun-2005
[1391]
... but we want .zip, right? Many product do support that - e.g. 
skin-packs for WinAmp do. And Windows can treat .zips as a directory 
natively, as well as Total Commander etc. Our users do not know they 
even use .zip archiver - they simply go into "directory". Compress/decompress 
is much LESS usefull.
Graham
12-Jun-2005
[1392]
or the script looks to see if rebgui is in the local directory ?