World: r3wp

That's right. This is not a RebGUI or RebDB issue, it is a Rebol 
issue that everyone needs to be aware of. If you don't copy series 
(ie. strings) then they are by reference. Use COPY a few times and 
you'll be right.

If you're in an area widget, and leave, is the caret position stored 
anywhere?  I want to try and insert text by clicking on a button 
outside the area widget were the caret was before.

Not by default. i patched focus/unfocus to do that. maybe that could 
be put in rebgui?

but mine solution was somewhat clumsy.

do you have svn access?

Ashley, are new demos being added to tour.r to show the new widgets 
... if any?

no. forgot to mentuon i did that for the inbuild ones. but i guess 
rebguis work similar.

can you post your patches here?

I think file sharing is now enabled??

be the first to upload something!

have only a few minutes left, back in a few hours :( hope i find 
them quickly.

One version is in http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=install-edit-tools.r

the idea is to call 'refocus-edit before doing something. then you 
have the caret in both system/view/caret and face/caret. 'unfocus 
saves the caret in caret/face, so if rebol changes the focal-face 
it is keept.

'caret? is used to fetch the caret, as face/caret can still be none.

so use 'refocus-edit instead of 'focus, 'caret? to access the last 
caret.

if you want to change something, refocus and change system/view/caret. 
since the next unfocus will store that inside the face.

filesharing is not available

cu

are new demos being added to tour.r to show the new widgets
 ... only after the WigitList Wiki is updated.

when i run create-distribution.r, i get
...
widgets/drop-tree.r
** Script Error: Cannot use add on none! value
** Near: bytes: bytes + size? f

Docu-note http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/widgets.html#section-6.7
:
 there is also 
switch type?/word value[ 
 integer! [..] 
]

When there is text in a field and we do the focus on it, then the 
text is shaded black.  Is there a command where, instead of shaded 
region, the focus is simply the insertion point placed before the 
string in the field.  The shaded region presumes that we will replace 
it all with a new value.  An insertion point suggest that we will 
correct the entry.  The difference is that we do not have to systematically 
hit a left arrow key first, to correct the field.

Note to http://home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/doc/create-a-rebgui-widget.html#section-3
needs also append to 'words
 
ctx-rebgui/widgets: make ctx-rebgui/widgets [
    append ctx-rebgui/words 'my-rebgui-widget ;!!
    my-rebgui-widget: make ctx-rebgui/rebface [

    ]
]

create-distribution.r - workaround at the moment is to create two 
empty 'place-holder' scripts in widgets dir named %number-field.r 
and %drop-tree.r. This should resolve itself once Cyphre publishes 
his remaining changes ... otherwise I'll add them to SVN the next 
time I commit any [other real] changes.

Normand, sounds like you want to use the hilight-on-focus block: 
http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/edit.html#section-2.3

Volker, doc changes noted. Thanks.

suggest that in the date requestor, either change result: copy "" 
or have a refinement to return an empty string if the requester is 
cancelled.

so we can do  show-text field form request-date, instead of
 
show-text field form either none? d: request-date [ "" ][ d ]

any[ request-date copy"" ]

ahh... so easy !

(I would have disagreed with that anyway.)

Any way to filter the display of a table based on row criteria ?

Here is a litle demo how to access the caret even if on-unfocus is 
called. eg a buton is pressed. or user edits in a find-area and wants 
to search in the edit-area. works by overriding on-unfocus and  saving 
caret in face. unfortunally i was not able to do it the other way 
around. i can restore the face-caret on on-focus, but something unfocusses 
later when i do that by a button. http://polly.rebol.it/test/test/rebgui/../../test/rebgui/edit-area.r.

demo: if you set the caret and click copycar, the text on the caret 
is shown on field above.

I want to add some commands to the top window red "close" square 
button, so that I commit changes to the database and save some data 
before the close.  I can add a quit button on the interface, but 
it is still important that the top window close button do the same 
thing.  I dont see any instructions about that, neither in the RebGui 
display guide, nor the vid spec.  Can someone provide the code to 
do that, or where to find it explicitly?

quit-wenn-close: func [face event] [
    if 'close = event/type [quit] 
    event
] 
insert-event-func :quit-wenn-close

remember that insert-event-func inserts the event in a block of events 
so if you run the same program multiple times from console, the event 
will be added again the next time you run it and therefore run twice.

block of events should be block of functions

there's an option in display to capture the close event.

A so smart pill marketer created false defect on the timeline http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/timeline.

I am unable to refresh a textlist.  My text list is defined as

Fall-ids: text-list 80x60 #HW data (db-select uniqueid contactDB) 
[
			new-cursor: rowid-of-identifier? face/selected
			valid-set: validate-cursor new-cursor
			if valid-set [show-values-of-current-cursor]
			]
And my function to refresh it is :
refresh-ids-list: does [
	Fall-ids/data: (db-select uniqueid contactDB)
	Fall-ids/redraw
]

Calling this, the data gets changed, but the textlist does not redraws 
itself?  I did try with set in Fall-dis 'data and show Fall-ids, 
without effect either. 3 hours later I am still in neverland.  Any 
Ideas?.

this won't work

try


refresh-ids-list: does [ insert clear head fall-ids/data db-select 
uniqueid contact db fall-ids/redraw ]

Thank-you, it works.  It is not clear in my head, as to why 'insert 
clear' is better than 'TheObject/Data: "NewListOfValues"', but Ill 
try to remember it by hart.  I am nearing completion of a small example 
of RebGui+RebDB app.  Last glitches are show-focus and display/close.

As for the option in display to capture the close event, how do I 
state it?  As this does not work.
Contact: compose/deep/only [
; Gui definition
]
do show-contact: does [
	display/min-size "ContactDB" Contact 680x650
	do[show-first-rowid]
	display/close [] [shutdown] ; <-- Culprit
	]
do-events

I presume that the internal functions already have referenced the 
/data so, when you reset it using data: ( .. ), they can't find the 
data anymore.

Funny to see the Memory Usage in Rebgui, Under linux it eats almost 
2 MB during startup under WinXP its 1 MB less...

Never the less, a very nice result guys !!! Ill use it ;-)

How do tabs work in area fields?
this doesn't work { area with [flags: [field]] }

There is very odd behaviour of tab in in tour.r in the area

Tab (and shift-tab) changes focus. 'with is a VID construct, not 
RebGUI (unless Cyphre's changes are more far reaching than I'm aware 
of ;) )


The area in tour.r is the only tabable widget so it re-tabs to end 
of text. Try:

	display "" [area area area]


to see how it works when more than one tabable widget is/are present.

how to tab inside an area??

Seems this is an enhancement that needs to be done.