World: r3wp

i liked pretty much the idea of an advanced high end side widget 
library like REBGUI . It evolved so much faster than View in  last 
years. and the result is nothing to deal with the rough aspect of 
the basic VID

maybe  this set of "advanced widgets" can be updated automatically 
through internet like rebgui was. IT depends in fact on how often 
do we plan to update the widget library  if its once or twice a year 
then it can be done through regular R3 release if it's more ofthen 
then we need a way to update the advanced library more often

for example in viva-rebol.r project advanced side widgets take 95% 
of the source code lines writen ( and i compressed some of them) 
OK viva-rebol involve a new way to deal with text in an extensive 
and heavy way okay but still a hudge part of this project are nothing 
but one time used widget and that's a true waste!

Shadwolf - why don't you just read new VID3.4 docs? It is clear new 
VID does support creation of advanced styles, and IIRC Cyphre will 
do grid (table) widget for R3 ....

just a quick (yes/no) question wrt VIEW R3 (not VID) cause I've got 
no real R3/view experience:


can we draw graphics clipped within other arbitrarily shaped graphics?
like a box clipped to a circle or spline curve?

yes, in 2 steps (not specific to Rebol).

Make a mask with your shape, then apply the mask on the second graphics 
(you can use 2 overlapping gobs to do so).

Don't know if it's possible to do the 2 steps in only one gob though.

but it should be

no I mean the mask crops the other shape, so that the box appears 
to be "within" the other (circle), even if its drawn OVER it .


its not just a question of layering two objects one over the other.

or did I mis-understand your explanation ?

So i don"t see your point. To me, It's just doing the same thing 
you requested, but it seems you want something else.

Or can you reshape your asking ? :-)

;-) 

I mean like in R2, faces clip faces within their pane, hierarchically.


I need this but using any shape within any shape (at multiple levels)... 
not just a box inside a box

And you don't like the technic using masks ?

is mask an attribute of a gob?

I mean, a bitmap mask

in photoshop, its like using the eraser to remove parts of a layer 
and reveal the bg. 


 what you say, looks more like adding a layer with a hole in it.  
 Do I understand your idea properly?

is that more obvious?

maxim thank you for the head hache :P

Pekr, from specs: "This might be a problem for VID, because we use 
only simple text for UI styles. Will we have to switch to rich-text 
instead, to fulfill the needs?" - it should not be a problem since 
all text in R3 GUI is rich text.

OK .... I put in some content toward accelerator keys into docs ...

What happened to the dedicated R3 gui team that was going to finish 
R3 GUI ?  Did they get side tracked or are they still working on 
it?

we are finishing a product for shipping.

the next project must use R3 and the GUI, so the work starts there 
again

this looks like an interesting GUI http://10gui.com/video/

yes, Amiga sliding screens from 1985, just horizontally, not vertically 
:-)

This is what I find pleasantly looking UI - http://www.vasanth.in/content/binary/FutureLotus Notes.jpg

Maybe Lotus notes is looking good now, Maybe.... 

But I had so many bad experiences with that crappy app, in the past.
No respect of the GUI santards. (F5 to quit).
No drag and drop.
Lof of useless confirmation boxes.
Useful actions hidden in deepest menus I ever seen.
etc...
It was a pain in the ass just to write a simple e-mail.

And slow, so slow

Steeve - yes, I agree :-) I was referring jut to look of the UI :-)

Heh ... lotusnotes looks like the way my application looks now ... 
three columns with a central tabbed view

One problem with tabbed views is that you can only see one tab at 
a time ... so if you have multiple screens, you can't use them.

E.g. browsers solve this by allowing to open tabs in their own windows 
and putting windows back into tabs.

hmm... the underline stroke in R3 rich text is not shadowed.

Christian .. good point ...

Offer users the choice

Hopefully the important work has started - http://www.rebol.com/r3/docs/view/graphics-ext.html

That part is pretty important, yes.

Well, it will allow Cyphre (or others) to work on View kernel. But 
as for VID, the work could continue in theory even without the above 
mentioned work?

As for VID, we probably need Carl's input too, to know what he has 
in mind for some concepts (layers for e.g.), but the hostkit is imo 
more important, so I think that we should not disturb him right now 
:-)

yes, I hope I can continue as soon as this other project is done.

No news is bad news?

it's moving. :-)

What's that mean?

... it means, that start of the implementation moved to 2011 :-)

Glaciers move too

implementation resumed a couple of days ago, although I'm out of 
the loop for a while.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1172060/

Oops, that was supposed to go in the glass channel :)

Henrik - will your site with screenshots become available again? 
.... and ... should we await some new creations in upcoming weeks?

yes, I'll try to post some shots when new styles come up.

hi, a little question on field widget