World: r3wp

I'm doing an example now on tabbed pages. I hope it'll be easy to 
understand. :-)

alright... I've put it here for review: http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/panescookbook.html
If you think it looks reasonably simple, I'll submit it to Carl.

Henrik, that's really nice and simple.  I would suggest putting in 
some code to check the version number and using the appropriate code, 
for example...

either 1.2.8.31 < system/version [
	print "Version greater than 1.2.8.31"
][
	print "Version less than or equal to 1.2.8.30"
]

I'm not sure how to incorporate that in the code without having it 
dominate the example. Besides the other examples simply state that 
you need a specific rebol version to use them

something like this?

As of <today>, it needs at least beta x (windows http://*), this 
and other betas are here: http://www.rebol.net/builds/

fixed a couple of typos now, but I think I'll still only post a version 
note at the bottom like in the other scripts...

I think all of the cookbook entries should be fixed to indicate their 
limitation as stated above!!  OR,  another cookbook entry should 
be made to indicate how to variably use code from one version of 
Rebol over another.

Beat me to it if you choose  ;)

I like the idea of a cookbook entry to check on versions. It could 
be expanded to check on OS and other things (what system is this 
script running on?)

I would probably like to see a cookbook example on some kind of error 
handling/redirecting to file or a nice popup window. I've experienced 
terrified users that call me about "that white text window with cryptic 
messages in it" that crop up on fatal bugs.

I'm going to do a last check on my panes example and then submit 
it to Carl. Haven't done any changes to it.

I've created a new draft for a cookbook tutorial for creating a set 
of configuration loading and storing tools: http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/configurationtools.html

It's a bit long though, but tell me what you think

Nice, Henrik!


I do that sort of stuff all the time, and I am sure others do too. 
So to have it as a single item is a good thing.


One small point -- your way of extending the existing object works 
only for single-level values....I often have configuration objects 
that have sub-objects. A field added to a sub-object would be missed 
by your code.  Take a look at:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=extend-an-object.r
Which was created for this sort of purpose.

thanks for that. I don't know if I'll bring it in though as it would 
make the tutorial more complex. I might have o split it in multiple 
parts.

I'll be updating the old tutorial on panes with modified code soon.

sunanda, I've decided to leave recursive upgrading as an excersize 
to the reader and just made a few notes on it ;-) I must move on 
with the other tutorial now

On extending config with new values, I usally just use :

config: construct/with load config-file standard-config

where config-file hold the config values as a block. If it's stored 
as an object, you can use 'third to have the block.

standard-config is your config-object.

I use 'construct for security reason, but it's most understandable 
with 'make :

config: make standard-config load config-file

DideC -- your method is similar to Henrik's, and has the same limitation: 
sub-objects fields do not propagate as you'd expect.....No f2-2 field 
in 'config here:


     standard-config: make object! [f1: 1 f2: make object! [f2-1: 21 f2-2: 
     22] f3: 3]

     config-file: make object! [f1: 88 f2: make object! [f2-1: 99]]

     probe config: construct/with  third config-file standard-config

Henrik, I'm getting a 403 Forbidden error from your link...

ammon, should be fixed now

I'm still gettting forbidden

stupid FTP client... try again :-)

works! thanks.

Henrik, it's nice, but I think the person who looks at a cookbook 
example doesn't necessarily have the skills to do the exercises to 
complete those parts left to the reader.   I'd prefer complete examples 
rather than leaving something up to the reader.

well, I can remove them and make a part 2 tutorial? such as it is 
now, the code is pretty usable, I think. But it's far from perfect 
in terms of capability, so do we want perfect code across a few examples 
or just this one tutorial?

There's never any such thing as perfect code .. better to get something 
up, and let others build on it .. paraphrasing Isaac Newton

I've set up mediawiki at http://compkarori.com/rebolwiki/index.php/Main_Page
and will see how it goes.

Currently there's a sql error on updating or creating a page, but 
you can ignore that it seems as the page changes are made.

The advantage over Vanilla is that changes can be rolled back using 
the mysql database ...

PS: mediawiki is used to drive wikipedia.

I know mediawiki, as I use it for the Amiga AWeb Webbrowser. be careful 
with spammers....

that's why I have made logging in obligatory to edit pages

otherwise I have found scripts generating spam

yes, they can get pretty nasty, destroying contents and things like 
that

spam search bots create lots of junk in the Vanilla sites

I think my panes cookbook example is ready for one last review: http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/panescookbook.html


I've removed some unnecessary bits about styles and I've added references 
to the User preferences window in the rebol/view 1.3 desktop

One point that would make it simpler : you didn't used 'of keyword 
for your tog style.

'of keyword allow to group toggle, radio or checkbox in order to 
reset others while you set one.
Like this you don't need 'update-tabs functions :

main: layout [
  space 2 origin 4
  across

  style pane-tog tog of 'panels		; Just to avoid puting {of 'panels} 
  in each tog lines below
  pane1-tab: pane-tog 100x30 "Pane 1" [show-pane pane1]
  pane2-tab: pane-tog 100x30 "Pane 2" [show-pane pane2]
  pane3-tab: pane-tog 100x30 "Pane 3" [show-pane pane3] return
  content-pane: box 300x200 return

  btn white "Save" ; Save and Apply are used here for decorative purposes
  btn orange "Apply"
  btn sky "Close" [unview]
]

amazing! I never knew this. I will rewrite it immediately.

how do you set the default pane?

We learn something each day :)

add "data true" to the default tog

works. bleh. >/(

:-)

I vote for getting VID stuff into the dictionary :-)