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so far, the best Rebol related designs, for me - Henrik's stuff, 
Detective, Cyphre's styles pack - compact designs ....

hmm... aesthetically pleasing draw block, you say? how does that 
work? do you skin RebGUI that way?

Ashley has some code that draws the buttons done in AGG.

is #46 really the latest build? I have no experience with SVN.

#58

there's a version of svn for OSX

pity I can't make a screenshot ... will do so at home ...

maybe Henrik is the right person to help us ;-) Chris is here very 
sporadically ...

oh well, a pity I don't know how to use SVN so I can rescue you from 
unesthetical despair. :-)

isn't there SVN web access?

it's called trac.

http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/browser

I am new to SVN, I don't know how to configure it properly, so I 
used "Save as" option on selected files ...

it would be logical with a "Make Zip archive and download" button 
on the front page of that file list...

Ashley, what controls the highlighting of the word in the spellcheck? 
 I note the tour demo keeps the suspect word highlighted, but my 
change somewhere doesn't.  Is it an option in the behaviours in rebgui-ctx? 
 Or coded inside the spellcheck function?

oh wow, yes those buttons in #59 are rather alternative...

have you run tour.r? On main screen, the buttons look more like older 
view capsule buttons (IOS). On some other screens, it is not all 
that bad.

well, they look acceptable here, as in they are antialiased, font 
is readable and such.

I wonder if we can define radius? Because on button tab, there is 
new button look, the big button, which is more square, than others, 
which are rounded.

yes we can

Maybe it is just coloring, which distracts me. Whole background etc 
- beige, like in XP. I would vote for Detective design - clean, modern 
....

http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/cool/coolwidgets.png<--- actually it can 
be controlled quite precisely

are those AGG buttons??

yes

well, not complete, anyway. Maxim uses a derivative of that design 
in his system

I think Ashely would love some input here :)

I had to cheat to get centered AA text :-(

He moved from bitmap buttons to AGG to try and save some ram.

nice. Although I am not sure I like it overall - to shiny/reflecting 
:-)

to = too

the current rebgui buttons look too rounded for me .. so if an alternative 
were available ...

pekr, the overall shape and the texture of the buttons are somewhat 
separate, so the buttons can be retextured to look more sand-polished 
or different while the groove around the buttons can remain.

I like buttons with a realistic look that make you say "oh, that's 
a metallic paint" or other surface treating process

E.g. I liked something in between. Original 1.3 button look - http://www.xidys.com/chris-buttons.jpg
... it also works on black backgrounds - http://www.xidys.com/chris-buttons-black.jpg

http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/cool/cool-widgets.r<--- source here.

is there a difference between how INIT works in RebGUI and INIT in 
VID?

I can't get my INIT function to work in a rebface

whoops, had the INIT function stuck inside a FEEL. :-)

you trying to adapt some of your styles to Rebgui? :-)

just poking around :-)

I think the buttons are not tall enough. they should be at least 
20-22 px tall.

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/rebgui-btns.png<--- well, it's a start.

nicer

nicer ... but buttons should be taller imo :-)

yes they should. I altered the size to 20 pixels but it had no effect?

I am not just proponent of "full colors". If I say - button red, 
I don't really mean "full red" :-) I like a bit more mild coloring 
...

yes. OTOH, you have full control over the button color. VID standard 
BTN does some contrast reduction, so a red button appears pale red.

... that's the same as with view layout [button 100 red "first" btn 
100 red "second"]

but those gradients and shapes look definitely better to me ...

with a more consistent look, the buttons will appear even better.