World: r3wp

And in your example, the right hand text list demonstrates this point 
for me losing it's sliders as well as another problem - a tiny square 
widget.

rather, a wafer thin widget.

Perhaps you're using a fixed version of rebgui?

Yep, chalk that up as another thing fixed in 0.3.5. ;) The wafer 
thin dragger is still a problem though.

display "" [ area 50x20 #WH slider 5x20 #H data [arrows]] do-events


This doesn't resize properly in that the slider keeps its absolute 
x position.

When items are placed at absolute positions, they don't resize.  

So, how about we do a 

at 50%x30%  ??

or 

at 50x20 #H to indicate vertical resizing ?

First problem is fixed easily enough:


 display "" [ area 50x20 #WH slider 5x20 #XH data [arrows]]	; note 
 the #X directive

Not sure what the second issue is as:


 display "" [at 20x20 area 50x20 #WH slider 5x20 #XH data [arrows]]

seems to work well enough.

but not if u do this 


display "" [at 20x20 area 50x20 #WH slider 5x20 #XH data [arrows] 
at 20x5
0 area 50x5 #WH ] do-events

#X directive noted .. thanks.

And #Y directive seems to fix my other problems :)

Not so much an absolute positioning problem as a by-product of RebGUI's 
simplistic resizing model. Compare:

	display "" [field #WH field #WH return field #WH field #WH]

with:

	display "" [field #H field #WH return field #Y field #YW]


This limitation is by design so won't be changing any time soon (I 
tend to design GUIs that conform to it naturally ... but that may 
be just me ;) )

In this example I can't get vertical positioning working 

display "" [  
    at 0x150
    

    text-list 30x15 #YH data [ "Joe" "Adam" "Bill" "Artur" "Phil" "Simone" 
    ] [ show-text chattofld pick face/data first face/picked ]

        chatarea: area 150x10 #YWH "Intra office chat appears here" slider 
        5x10 #YXH data [arrows]
 
    at 32x160
    chattofld: field 15 #Y chatfld: field 140 #YW [ 

            show-text chatarea rejoin [ chatarea/text newline chattofld/text 
            ": " chatfld/text] 
            show-text chatfld "" rebfocus chatfld
    ]

    ] do-events

neat. got my very simple gui app working in View, and I'm suddenly 
overwhelmed by the urge to try it with RebGUI instead.

How do I right-align the text in a field?

right

field font [align: 'right]
should work

perfect, thanks

Graham, best you can do is remove #Y directive from first 3 widgets. 
To make things even clearer, revert the span-resize function to its 
pre-0.3.4 definition (i.e. replace the following:

			;	protect against negative sizes
			if find face/span #"W" [
				...
			]
			if find face/span #"H" [
				...
			]

with:

			if find face/span #"W" [face/size/x: face/size/x + delta/x]
			if find face/span #"H" [face/size/y: face/size/y + delta/y]

in %rebgui.r (as has been done in the next build).

ok.

I've got to keep the #Y as otherwise the top three widgets don't 
move down on resizing ( there are widgets not shown above them ).

that change doesn't seem to have helped :(

Oh, and how do I scroll the text in the chatarea using the slider?

The area widget, like text-list, should have a slider that appears 
as needed. Hope to have that in the next build.

Ok.

The action associated with the first tab of a tab-panel does not 
fire when first viewed ... wonder if that should be the case.

Is there a way to alter the spacing vertically in a check-group? 
 It doesn't respond to space nxn ...

Do group-boxes resize?

No, but they should.

Latest build available at: http://www.dobeash.com/files/RebGUI-035.zip

Issue log: http://www.dobeash.com/it/rebgui/issues.html


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Highlights include:


 - generic face-iterator function shared by all lists (text-list, 
 table, edit-list & drop-list)

 - new improved table widget finally supporting row (including multiple) 
 selection

 - updated drop-list & edit-list widgets (defocusing support still 
 limited though)
	- area widget now sports a slider by default

 - resizing code (supporting negative sizes) reverted to pre-0.3.4

 - IMPORTANT: resizeable windows that don't have min-size specified 
 are automatically assigned one the same as the original window size
	- Various multi-row text selection issues resolved
	- Various focus issues resolved
	- numerous other minor bug fixes and coding improvements

In the works

	- basic menu widget
	- revamped documentation 
	- stabilize existing code-base for 0.4.0 beta release

note that show-focus replaces rebfocus

Page up, down, and cursor keys do not scroll text within an area.

Great news on the table selection .. must try that out.

I want to scroll the pane within a tab panel.  It's the 7th tab. 
 I can find the tab itself

tp2/pane/8/offset/x: 

but what is the path to the panel face ?

Something like this:

display "" [
	t: tab-panel data ["A" [field] "b" [field]]
	return
	button "<" [t/pane/1/offset/x: t/pane/1/offset/x - 10 show t]
	button ">" [t/pane/1/offset/x: t/pane/1/offset/x + 10 show t]
]

Ahh.. it's the first pane in the main pane.

On reflection, I think I want to actually scroll the contents of 
that pane, and not that pane itself.

I've got about 80 check boxes on one tab panel scattered through 
a number of group checkboxes ... need to clear them in one hit. 
Need some way to run thru all the checkboxes and reset them.

Perhaps the 'clear-text accessor function can generalised to a clear-face 
function ?

display "Test" [

 c: check-group 30x15 data ["Item 1" true "Item 2" false "Item 3" 
 none]
	button [foreach item c/pane [item/data: true] show c]
]

if item/style = 'check [...]

oops, sorry, non-VID..

if widget/type = 'check-group [...]

Graham, I think a clear-widget accessor (with a "/default value" 
refinement) would make a good addition.

What do feel about adding a right mb click to tables ?  Just thinking 
of way to remove items from tables.

Sounds reasonable. What about a double-click action as well? I was 
thinking of expanding the layout parsing rules such that *any* widget 
could be specified as:


 widget [default left-click action] [default right-click action] [default 
 double-click action]

but I'm not sure whether this is overkill or not.

choice is good... already have tristate widgets :)

It also means we have a cleaner screen .. fewer widgets to clutter 
it up to do the things we need to do with tables ie. add, remove, 
elements

Another wish for tables .. a way to set the colour of a row, which 
is controlled programmatically.  So, you might have a table of messages 
in your inbox, some of which you have read ( one colour ), and those 
to be read ( another colour ).

Ashley, good idea. As long as the later two are optional.