World: r3wp

dunno ... hidden some stuff on my drive somewhere?

Hmm. I would give up too, as long as it runs.

maybe it will be healed in the morning?   Off to bed ...!

Aah! Smart user,  exhausted computer. Could work :)

Reichart,
 

1. Are there plans to provide an RSS feed (or multiple feeds) trigger 
by AltMe world activity? 

I would like to be alerted to my RSS reader when updates are made. 

It is not so necessary for Rebol3 but I am proposing an Altme use 
where activity might start out less frequent. 


2. Is the AltME export capability that Rebol3 has for the public 
groups a general use feature of a SafeWorld?

1. Yes, on the list.,
2. Not yet,

In trying to move some worlds to a new computer, everything is gone. 
I copied over all the files (I still of course have the old drive 
image). Is there some other trick? It just seems to ignore the copied 
files. Thanks in advance.

Ah, fixed it. On old pc the directory was safeworlds on the new it 
was altme and it seemed that Altme on this new computer favored the 
altme folder. I'm just glad it works. : )

I can connect to some of my servers, is Altme's nameserver down?

I can't ?

works for me.

Quote button, please :-)

Give an example please.

of the problem or solution?

for the problem: See Chat group. :-) for the solution, maybe one 
could click on a quote button next to the timestamp on the item you 
wish to respond to. A single line could automatically be pasted with: 

Reichart said: "Give an example please."
enter text here

with "enter text here" not actually being there, but just the location 
of the cursor.

for big lines, just paste the first line with an ellipsis.

Could be done with to faces as long as we have no rich-text. One 
for quote, one for reply.

to -> two

This is on our list for Qtask, but not AltME exactly.

to me it doesn't sound like it would be particularly difficult to 
do, add an action to a timestamp and copy the first line of an entry 
and paste it in the textarea, but maybe I'm wrong. :-)

Henrik, as an intermediate solution (far from perfect), you *could* 
make a short rebol program which copies text from the clipboard, 
truncating it if too long, then writes the truncated text back to 
the clipboard.  You make this program easy to access from your start-menu 
or launcher. Then, in altme, you right-click the message you want 
to quote, run your truncator program, then right-click in the text 
entry area.

(Ah, but that doesn't give the author or date....)  But this makes 
me think of an alternative suggestion for adding to altme. Perhaps 
ALT-RMB or CTRL-RMB on the text should do Henrik's desired quoting.

it could. I think that's a good idea, even though it may not be entirely 
obvious.

Diffilcutly has very little to do with features.

so it's how to fit it into your testing scheme?

I'm not resisting here keep in mind, just saying that my goal is 
to put energy into one messaging system that is wrapped in an API 
that everyone can use.

my goal is to put energy into one messaging system that is wrapped 
in an API that everyone can use


that requires me to ask whether you are dropping AltME or whether 
QTask will eventually use an AltME like frontend?

The second.  Not just are we not dropping AltME, we are growing it. 
 But there is a bigger picture.

feels like an early X-files episode, where you get hints and this 
and that of bigger things... :-)

:)

Freaky day today. On my work's World my account became "disconnected" 
and when I tried to revisit the world it would not recognize me. 
I checked out the user file and Master was back on. Fortunately I 
had a backup so I replaced Master with my account. Kinda scary.

The funny thing is……………….


I run several AltME worlds on several computers(Mac, PC).  All my 
computers in a given day move from wired to wireless.  Not just that, 
but I go from a wired home to a wireless home (if I have to save 
big files I plug the wire in).  I then gt in my truck where I jump 
to Sprint Cell PCMCI card (about 70K bytes per second).  Which I 
use to talk to people on Skype.  In my office I pick up the local 
wireless, and bring up a second copy of AltME on a second laptop.


With all that, not once in all these years have I lost even a single 
message in AltME, not been able to log in, etc.  Obviously there 
have been a couple of Server outages, but I'm not even near the servers, 
and I have never even had trouble from Maui.


It is odd.  The sad reality is that a strong percentage of problems 
are simply the local computer.  Even if it is "only" AltME (or replace 
with any other application) you are having trouble with.

sampling problems

An X-file episode.... But Reichart a) doesn't smoke b) isn't an alien. 
Although the latter may be an attempt of another alien to protect 
our species ;-)

Reichart, why is scrolling in AltME so bumpy? I mostly get nuts if 
I want to go the first unread entry and than just scroll downward 
entry by entry. And if the entry is bigger then the currently shown 
part, it jumps to the end and I can't read the beginning... should 
be fixed IMO.

This is a similar problem with Web browsers and Adobe Reader with 
PDFs as well. It seems there's no way to smoothly scroll, consistently.

(yes, and it drives me nuts too..)

I've only had those scrolling problems with AltME ... +1 on driving 
nuts ;-)

The other thing is, that it's showing these stupid popups, and loses 
the history whenever the internet connection goes down or up (I mean, 
the marks for unread messages is lost.)

Hmm.  I mentioned this before, and I was told using the scrollwheel 
allows you to scroll one line at a time.

but you if change your preferences to a low number .. you won't have 
these problems.

You mean message number in AltME?

yes

Seems that scrolling steps are set to a percentage of total messages 
height.  Usually to implement scrolling, I small-step by line height 
and large-step by view-port height minus line height (so there's 
a little overlap when doing large steps).  Then tie the scroll-wheel 
to the same functions (the scrollwheel is convenient, but a pain 
when it's the only way to do something).

I hate PDF scroll method, which is diff than everyone elses.  As 
to AltME, our scolling is taken from the system.  On my system it 
is clean smooth and one line at a time.  I think this may be a system 
issue, and not AltME, but I'm open to proof.

As to AltME, our scolling is taken from the system.

 <--- actually I think the scroller in VID is buggy, because I have 
 many of the same scrolling problems with LIST-VIEW as are present 
 in AltME.

for example not being able to guarantee that the scroller moves exactly 
one page at a time, when clicking in an empty area.

Perhaps, but that is not proof.  It may also be a function of the 
resolution.  We need a conclusive example.

(meaning we all need)