World: r3wp

O'k. My mistake are offen do not tell what is my target. So it is 
to get working status bar in a layout. As I understood it is possible 
by read-thru.

Thanks Gabriele. It was the reason. But to continue regarding status 
bar functions fired by read-thru. Than it is a problem just to kBox/image: 
 read-thru/progress myUrl :myProgr . It is possible just by using 
local file i.e. kBox/image: read-thru/to/progress myUrl %tmpImg.png 
:myProgr

BTW: How to insert newline in a post?

Click the "pen" icon just up to the input area (near color/ no color 
one)

Thanks!
I am getting following parameters of myProgr:
3650 8000
7430 8000
9950 8000
13730 8000
15335 8000
19115 8000
22975 8000
26755 8000
30695 8000
34475 8000
38255 8000
42195 8000
46055 8000
49835 8000
53695 8000
55197 8000
55197 8000


How then to calculate data for progress bar ( decimal from 0 to 1 
)?
Or how to get total bytes?

Janek. request-download has the example callback you need. View its 
source. here is a snippet. Where prog is the progressbar and stat 
is a label in your layout and stop is a value that controls that 
should be be set false outside of this func to start with, and can 
set to true via a cancel button to force a download to stop before 
completion. 
func [total bytes] [
        prog/data: bytes / (max 1 total) 
        stat/text: reform [bytes "bytes"] 
        show [prog stat] 
        not stop
    ]

Thanks Allen!
The problem was so obvious that I did not think about it ;-)

just it is impossible to know what size of image will be that is 
coming from a cgi process with many parameters.

A easy job for REBOL... http://www.eyon.com/. I can't believe this 
tool needs to be 4mb zipped.

i like this little function and cant find a good name.
your: func [offset value] [
	if value [value/:offset]
]
usage:
 your 'facet get-style 'field

its sometimes more readable IMHO than putting the interesting word 
far at the end of line.
but i find no good name.. any suggestions?

Help peoples..

I have the following..
  x: [a b c d]

  foreach y x [ set y make string! {} ] ;make them all empty strings.
then I process/append info into the different groups a,b,c,d.
Now, I want to write each string/list to a file of the same name.
i.e.
  foreach y x [write to-file join y ".txt" ??GETVALUE?? y]

Can someone clue me in on what I do at the ??GETVALUE?? position?

Thanks peoples.

foreach y x [print [y get y]]

... so the missing ??getvalue?? is just get

How does one open up the serial port?


I've tried open serial://port1/9600/8 and serial://port1/9600/8 and 
both give me errors ..

this is in windows

Volker, in english, it seems better to write
	'facet of face    (where OF is the function in between)
but we can't do that...
How about TAKE ? ie.
	take 'facet face    ; (read in english: "take 'facet from face")

Graham, try a different port, maybe it's port2 that is mapped in 
your system.

modem: open/lines/no-wait/direct serial://port2/9600/8/none/1  ; 
from an example on rebol-list 2003-12-03

I meant above that I also tried serial://com1/9600/8 ...

Well, I was just able to do this with no error:
>> port: open serial://port2/9600/8
>> close port

wonder what's wrong with mine.

I wonder if I have the serial printer attached as a windows printer 
and it's hogging the serial port.

Check whether it's enabled in device manager

the serial port currently has a serial printer attached

which is working.  I am trying to send some commands to the printer

are you trying to communicate with the printer ?

right ok.

yes

You need something to see the status of all ports on your system 
to diagnose, I think, but it looks like, if rebol can't open it, 
that windows already has opened a port to it.

yep, that was it.

I removed the serial printer from the windows printers and now I 
can open the port

now, how do I send a page feed to the printer ... ?

That's 0c isn't it?

You could probably just disconnect the serial cable physically, then 
scan for hardware changes... can save time later on maybe..

Yep, looks like FormFeed (FF) is 0x0C

oh well, it doesn't do what I need it to do.

tried insert port #{0c} but the paper won't feed :(

Maybe you need to terminate your commands.. ?  See if you can find 
the language that the printer understands.

(and maybe there's a "simple mode" and a "windows mode" the printer 
can go into)

That is pretty crazy Allen. Doesn't seem like it could be too hard 
to do.

Graham, in the old days you would use the Escape+passthrough API, 
but that's been frowned on for quite a while now. Have you tried 
writing to %//PRN ? With more API work (OpenPrinter), you can use 
spooler functions like EndPagePrinter or WritePrinter too.

the problem is I don't have a windows driver for this printer so 
I am experimenting to see what type of controls it understands.

There is no manual, and the windows drivers are password protected 
on the manufacturer's website!

Give us the printer model. May be someone here...

I doubt it .. but here it is .. Addmaster IJ3000

http://www.addmaster.com

It looks like it accepts similar escape sequences as esc/pos ... 
but the application I'm using won't flush the printer buffer without 
closing the application down.

graham: check the serial parameters

Let me rephrase that.  I am using a POS program which I downloaded. 
 When it prints a receipt to my serial printer, it fails to cause 
the printer to print the full printer buffer.  But when I close the 
POS program down, the printer then spits out the rest.


I have downloaded the Builder C++  source ( but it won't compile 
without errors :(    ).  I thought I would try and use Rebol first 
to send commands to the  printer to see what I need to do to force 
the printer to print the contents of it's buffer.  It's not the pc 
buffer as I turned off the fifo buffers in the serial port settings 
to see what the problem was.

Does your printer finish the job, if your POS program sends a new 
page or a new job?
Can you manually force a linefeed on your printer?

Sorry, I meant
Can you force a FF formfeed on your printer?

If you can issue a DOS command (REBOL/Command or some betas with 
Call enabled), try this:
    echo ^l > prn
(That's a ctrl+L character, not a caret then L)
That should force a form feed