World: r3wp

Hi Ashley, i would like ask you, are you thinking about auto-scroll 
in widget AREA, because of  i can not select text bigger than area 
size.  Cool example in VID has Didier Cadieu, see http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=area-scroll-style.r&sid=ptn126rv

I made small CMS using Rebgui, so sometime i lack this feature :-)

I think it is importent feature in some apps processing text (medical 
notes, cms, blogs etc..)

Many times users use  "copy-paste"  method to carry large text:-)

Ashley - request-edit from RebDOC looks nice, it even scrolls, but 
it somehow misbehaves on my system. 

1) The Window could be smaller - does not even fit my 1280x800

2) When I try to resize it from the top, the window jumps around 
100pixels below

3) editing - only typing works ... e.g. hilighting by mouse does 
not work (strange, as it works for fields)
4) scroller misbehaves too ....

hmm, after RebDOC restart, hilighting works, but resizing still behaves 
strangely ...

I second Bobik's request - when I hilite text by mouse, I expect 
the area to autoscroll, to allow me to select more of text, not just 
the visible part ...

Autoscroll and request-edit issues noted.

Build 213
- layout moved to global context
- renamed request-edit to editor
- renamed set-enable to enable
- renamed set-disable to disable
- added in-widget function
- enable/disable now accept block of faces
- fixed arrow/list bug
- changed popup auto-hide from away to click
- fixed menu
- added toggle widget
- changed hard-coded green/red to use colors/true & false
- updated tour.r and RebDOC.r

Example usage of new in-widget func and toggle widget:

display "Sample" [
	field
	field

 button [set-text second in-widget face/parent-face 'field "Hello"]
	toggle green data ["A" "B"] [print face/data]
	toggle data ["AA" "BB"] options [on] [print face/data]
]

Toggle effect a bit mild.If there would not be 2 buttons on screen, 
I would not easily mean, if it represent pushed status, or let's-pus-me 
status, even if on/off text is available ....

- menu and lists - much better behaviour with auto-hide on click. 
One small note to menu - if you have one branch opened and you move 
to the sibling, it should not require click to have the first one 
closed, and open the one under the mouse pointer. But current behaviour 
is accpetable enough, it is just if we would like to have OS exact 
behaviour ...

- editor (and not only editor) - I can see that when hilighting, 
REBOL is not doing it all that correctly. Try to open editor, type 
in few lines (or just paste some text in there), and then try to 
mouse hilite. It works, but stops to hilite, when you move your mouse 
out of current window region. It should work even outside, at least 
it is what OS does. Open Notepad to compare ... it should not be 
difficult to do, and would improve usability ...

- what happened to the tree-view? I can see I can't collapse it by 
double-clicking parent node in the tour.r, nor can I see arrows in 
there. Is it just not configured, or?

Ashle - changed your code above to allow disable. Try pressing first 
button twice. It crashes RebGUI:

do %rebgui.r

display "Sample" [
	field
	f: field

 button [set-text second in-widget face/parent-face 'field "Hello" 
 disable f]
	toggle green data ["A" "B"] [print face/data]
	toggle data ["AA" "BB"] options [on] [print face/data]
]

do-events

error is near: "set-text second in-widget face/parent-face 'field" 
- maybe disabled face is somehow shifted from parent-face, so that 
it can't be found in subsequent call?

btw - error windows could have some "copy" button, or allow text 
copying by mouse-hilighting, or it is difficult to get the error 
message - you have to write it down somewhere else ...

the hilight issue is one I noted on the tracker, and exists for fields 
as well

How do you have a widget disabled by default?  options [info] doesn't 
work now on area.
I tried 

do [ disable f ] but got an error.

Does splash still work?  I get an error when I supply a spec block
Also, is there any alternatives to the vid 'flash ?

Disable:
	field disable

Splash:
	splash [text: "Hello" font: ctx-rebgui/widgets/default-font]
	...
	unview

Flash:
	Adding to next build ...

Ashley, how do I set focus to a button when I hit enter in a field?

It's always been difficult to control the focus from another widge 
because each widget has its own focus handlng which could switch 
it back to the widget you're using..

It's a lot easier now:

	display "Sample" [
		field [set-focus b]
		field
		field
		b: button "Go"
	]

Thanks (I use build 211, pretty awesome stuff)

While we're at it: can I set the width of a drop down box when a 
string is a bit longer?

Sure:

	drop-list 50


(remembering that 50 is cells not pixels ... http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/user-guide.html#section-3.3
)

Hm, I think I tried that. I'll retry and post a bug here if it doesn't 
work

display "Sample" [
	drop-list data ["Short text"]
	drop-list 50 data ["Some longer text"]
]

'flash ??

Any reason why you dropped the 'splash demo from tour.r ?

Just tried to

Just tried to create custom widget (213 and 212 distibutions). Simply 
running %create-distribution.r crashes because %btn.r and %chat.r 
widget files are missing. They   must be included in %rebgui.r file 
as it comes. I will try to recreate missing widgets from %rebgui.r 
to solve this problem for now. And hopefully will be able to add 
my custom widget after that.

edit the widget list?

Before one touches widget list, simply - do %create-distribution.r 
- fails because of missing 2 files, as I stated before. I hope, I'm 
not doing anything wrong getting this result. I should eventually 
overcome this problem temporarily, until it's fixed in next release.

Just confirmed that btn and chat widgets are included in supplied 
%rebgui.r file but corresponding widgets files are missing in widgets 
directory. I'm sure Ashley will fix it one day. My custom widgets 
work ok now with 213.

and you checked against the SVN?

Hmm.. I have mine.

Do you mean you have the same problem?

Yes, same issue.

Fix is very simple, anyway.

Yes

Out now, thanks for little help. See ya.

I found another bug in version 213. 

Yesterday I managed run %create distribution.r after recreating %btn.r 
and %chat.r widgets first. Today I found out that some requestors 
don't work:-
>> alert "test"
** Script Error: image has no value
** Where: layout
** Near: image images/alert 
text 60 "test"
>> 


It works from original %rebgui.r file. It seems that images exist 
in re-created one, but they cannot be found. Unfortunatelly, I've 
got no idea how to fix it

My last problem is probably my fault. I excluded icon widget from 
my custom %rebgui.r.

Is there any easy way to determine which word has been hilighted 
in a text area?

Build 214
- updated toggle (2x2 edge on select)
- added missing btn widget
- added missing chat widget
- added flash requestor
- added request-about
- renamed request-password to request-pass

Flash is used as follows:

	...
	flash "message"
	...
	hide-popup
	wait []
	...

request-about is used as follows:


 request-about/url "MyProj" 0.0.1 "Copyright (c) MyCo" "www.site.com" 
 ; or a url!


Note the logo is located in ctx-rebgui/images/logo and defaults to 
the info icon ... replace with your own logo image as follows:

	ctx-rebgui/images/logo: load %my-logo.png

easy way to determine which word has been hilighted in a text area
 ...

display "Sample" [
	a: area
	button [
		all [
			ctx-rebgui/edit/copy-selected-text
			print read clipboard://
		]
	]
	button [
		all [
			ctx-rebgui/edit/hilight?
			set [start end] ctx-rebgui/edit/hilight-range?
			print copy/part start end
		]
	]
]

First method is easier but trashes the clipboard ...

Thanks.  I was doing complicated things on the area/caret