World: r3wp

no, it simply makes a shape block with tick lines for sliders, gradient 
bars and the rgb spectrum viewer. it will be used in more places 
than it currently is in use.

Yes, fairly recently we saw those slider demos with ruler marks on 
them.

.. which is where make-ticks was used.

essentially MAKE-TICKS [3 1 2] would draw something like:

| . . : . . | . . : . . |

Woooh, it means..., nothing to me :-)

your clock on the wall probably has something similar. (if it's an 
analog clock) :-)

Anton, the --do bug is known, cross-platform (not just Linux), and 
part of a half-dozen bugs that can be fixed by rewriting one function. 
It's the next R3 thing on my todo list, when I get the chance. I'm 
swamped with work at the moment.

:-) I thought it is Braile letters :-)

BrianH, cool, that it's next on your todo list - glad you've noticed.

User datatypes can't add new syntax.

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/r3/gui/106.png

Make-ticks was used in the 5 sliders at the top.

I've just been busy lately. Carl fixed/documented a lot of things 
in alpha 37 for me, but I'm in crunch time at work now. Soon.

Henrik, I advise not spending the energy lobbying for the new datatype. 
Just implement the "counter" algorithm as optimally as you can and 
move on.

Sorry, I think there's too much in this to pass it up. I think this 
would be very useful.

Ok, sliders, rulers, analog clocks... anything else?

Aside from the syntax, this could be done as a user-defined datatype. 
Or it could be done as an API.

Anywhere you want to count with varying base on multiple numbers 
and act on it. I've run into this numerous times.

BrianH, are there docs anywhere on user defined datatypes yet? Limitations?

Just discussions, but I know what the limitations are.

Henrik, I'll have to think more on it.

Steeve, where was your disk-block scheme source?

http://sites.google.com/site/rebolish/

thanks. maybe it's better to implement it as a scheme anyway.

I'm confused on your proposal as wel Henrik. A concrete example would 
really help, since it's a complex concept.

I think I'll wait. I've discovered some problems with the idea, which 
makes it less useful than I thought it would be.

There is new blog about small change to modules - http://www.rebol.net/r3blogs/0179.html

Eh Ammon ! how do you manage selection over several text gobs ?

I'm trying to do it currently, but i'm not sure to have the best 
design

I haven't gotten that far yet.  I recently had to rewrite my parser 
from the ground up, mostly due to the fact that NOT isn't implemented 
yet and I want to be able to handle unicode without too much trouble. 
 I think I'm going to have to handle a lot events like text selection 
by passing them through the text faces to the main scrollable area 
and let it handle them.  I expect I'll be rewriting the highlighting 
from the ground up.

i'm rewritting completly the key handler with my own cursor (a gob). 
I don't like the default handler

I like the design of the default handler.  =D  I'll need to modify 
or extend it before I'm through though.

too much ovverrides have to be done, redoing it from the scratch 
is simpler

You know that you can get the source from DevBase, right?

my cursor is gob i'm moving from gobs to another gobs

i have the sources

Yup, I'll be doing that as well.

in the default design, the cursor is not a gob

well, the handling of text editing is very powerful.  I will definitely 
be using the same design just extending it a bit.

i don't like it so much ;-)

but perhaps i'm wrong

It's a simple state machine.  It's taken me a long time to grok what 
can be done with such a system but now they are starting to dominate 
my code.

A state machine ? What a big word. It's just a serie of switch commands 
:-)

Instead of having to add a lot of refinements and refinement handling 
to related functions you can just put them together into an object 
and as each of the functions are called they are setting values that 
are local to the collection of functions and each of those values 
modify the behavior as if you were using refinements and passing 
in more values.  It's kind of an inference engine.

Again, what a big word. I do that too to have a more readable, and 
compact code. 

I don't like to pass thousand of parameters. But nothing is related 
to a state machine to my mind

You may be right.  I may be misinterpreting the meaning of state 
machine...

I'm seeing some strange behavior with Parse...

ws: charset rejoin [space tab newline]

parse "   This is a test!" [s: some ws e: (probe copy/part s e) to 
end]
; == false

parse/all "  This is a test!" [s: some ws e: (probe copy/part s e) 
to end]
; "  "
; == true

I shouldn't need /all when I provide a rule block should I?

In truth it doesn't always fail but I'm not sure what causes it to 
change it's behavior.

Heh.  Or rather I don't know why SOME was ever working but I saw 
it work once.


parse "  ^- this is a test!" [s: any ws e: (probe copy/part s e) 
to end]

ANY appears to work all the time though.  Strange.

charset is bugous in R3 currently

So this is a problem with Charset not Parse?

I made my own function.
charset: func [str /local bitset][
	bitset: make bitset! 256
	foreach char str [append bitset char]
]