World: r3wp

My old time friend, who tried to use rebol some few years ago, left 
it because of following reasons - weak View documentation, incomplete 
styleset, occassional View crashes. He complained about missing styles 
mainly, as as a newbie, he was not able to produce his own styles. 
He tried to look into styles source, but all those mysterious "init" 
and other things, you will agree - are not for newbies to start with. 
Then I digged out one old doc from my archive, basically describing 
View-without-VID - faces, events, their description etc. He then 
started to create his own styles, without VID. Then he left rebol.....

He tried to give a try to other environments, as Delphi etc., but 
he missed the beauty and freedom of rebol, forever :-)

So he is active for last few months once again, and once I pointed 
him to latest betas, it really made his day.

maybe you made his life.

But once again I think, that from newbie rebol coder perspective, 
the most important things which should follow is - additional, more 
complex styles, docs, and SDK featuring latest developments. Hopefully 
we will get there soon, but we are almost there with 1.3 - good work 
was done!

It let's you have menus in VID. Menu-bar and others.

The demo does nothing

Calling it "System" is propably hype ;-)

none of the buttons respond

using >> system/version
== 1.2.125.3.1

Any error messages?

nope

no menus appear

And you have both files in the same dir?

the menu-system is local, and the demo is remote

Put them into the same dir, if possible.

same problem

the only response I see is that the hilite appears above the buttons 
and menus

I'll check my user.r if that's what causes the problem, wait a second, 
please ...

the other thing is that if I close the demo window down, it doesn't 
return to console unless I use ESC

Yes, that's true, that's one of the remaining bugs.

A question: When you started the script, was there disk activity?

I tried an earlier version, and it worked as advertised

The demo tries to read system/options/home to build a menu that reflects 
the structure beneath that dir. Maybe that's what the problem causes?

My system/options/home is my rebgui directory, which has some subdirectories

before, it was my rebol/view directory

Before means: before you run the script? And the script changes it?

no, just when I last tried the demo out.

I have since installed later version of  view.

No, that shouldn't be  the cause.

I just installed view and no change.

But you got the demo window on the screen, together with a console 
window saying "Menu-System Demo" ?

Also, the demo window takes 2 clicks on the X to close it down.

correct

>> do %menu-system-demo.r
Script: "Menu-System Demo" (10-Jun-2005)
Script: "Menu-System" (11-Jun-2005)
Menu-System Demo

Ha, that's a hint: for some reason the menu may show invisible ...

Let me have a check ...

invisible menus .. kewl

No, all fine here on 1.3.0.3.1 (can't believe that's the reason)

I'll check that

I just got a black bar drop down from the "cool" button

and a "dot" under the "weired" button.

On a fresh console: what does system/options/standard/face/font look 
like?

I think the two clicks to close the window down do indicate invisible 
menus that have dropped down.

>>  system/options/standard/face/font
** Script Error: Invalid path value: standard
** Near: system/options/standard/face/font
>>

the "black dot" or "black hole" should *be* a menu. so, yes.

typo, sorry, system/standard/face/font

>> probe system/standard/face/font
make object! [
    name: "arial"
    style: none
    size: 12
    color: 0.0.0
    offset: 2x2
    space: 0x0
    align: 'center
    valign: 'center
    shadow: none
]

I'm going to reboot my system and see if things change.

Okay, too. I'm disappointed, and I guess you, too ... Still thinking