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RT is promoting Rebgui http://www.rebol.net/article/0280.html

Version 1, left, down resized ...

display "Test 1" [
   tight
   text 40 #w "free" 
   text 10 #w "11"
   text 40 #w "empty" 
   text 10 #w "12"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry3" ]
   return
   text 40 #w "nothing" 
   text 10 #w "21"
   text 40 #w "whatever" 
   text 10 #w "22"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry3" ]
]
do-events

Version 2, upper left resized ...
display "Test 2" [
   tight
   text 40 #w "free" 
   text 10 #wx "11"
   text 40 #wx "empty" 
   text 10 #wx "12"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hwx data ["entry3" ]
   return
   text 40 #wy "nothing" 
   text 10 #wxy "21"
   text 40 #wxy "whatever" 
   text 10 #wxy "22"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hwy data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hwxy data ["entry3" ]
]
do-events

the first one you need a #Y for those you want to have a y displacement

what's wrong with the second one?

I've been looking at how to save a form contents and reload the same 
values when opening the form.

all the widgets are anonymous

when I save the form contents, I just go through the pane and grab 
all the values for the widgets I have viz: radio-groups, and edit-lists.

And to restore the form contents, in the do block of the layout, 
I go thru the layout and restore the values.

Only trouble is .. it's not working for me.

How to reference the layout from within a do block ?

I can't use the reference returned by 'display because the display 
hasn't finished yet.

IIRC you have it in 'face in the do-block

Let me try ..

display "Example" compose [
    button "a" [alert "hi"] field "a" return 
    button "b" field "b" return 
    do [
        foreach fac face/pane[
 probe fac/text
]
    ]
]

Nope .. not working.

let me try a smaller example ..

mine works here. has rebgui change?

keeps changing all the time!

Hmm.

Has rebgui changed in that regard? :)

Smaller example works here too.

must be doing something else bad ..

confidential code?

display "Test" [
	group-box "Box1" data [
		field 100 return
		field 100 return 
	]
	do [	
		foreach f face/pane [
			if f/type = 'group-box [
				foreach t f/pane [
					t/text: copy "hello"
				]
			]
		]
	]
] do-events

works fine

not confidential code .. just very long!

maybe i can dig to the important points.

i am sometimes good at probing.

hang on ....

maybe i find the bug.

fixed :)

Grats :)

helps to talk about these things :)

very true:)

Graham, good tip: Don't save/restore anonymous widgets. If (whyever) 
the order of faces change you are lost. I always use named widgets, 
even it's more to code. But I can move the stuff around without any 
problems. And my widgets have the same name as the database-columns.

can't do ... users are allowed to create the forms

But they could be forced to name the fields?

but they could overwrite globals

they might name a field rebol: field 100

i would take roberts suggestion but use my own naming. eg have a 
/my-name in your fields and compare with that.

Graham, simple fix: Just prefix each field name internally with graham_<field-name-by-user> 
and you are save.

this is an example form http://www.compkarori.com/emr/images/cvs.png

I use the form to create text .. so it is not being saved to any 
database ...

it is being used to create english sentences

I guess I would use named fields though if I had to save and restore 
to database fields

So its stored only short-term and long-term-compatibility is no issue?

yes

mostly for forms I store the form data as a block in the database

because you might have a hundred different forms