World: r3wp

But I will test this first to be sure.

petr: the /seek refinement requires the new ports of the /async kernel, 
so it wasn't possible to port it back to the old kernel easily.

I know Gabriele - my question was, if async kernel allowed open/seek 
already?

is it possible to have a transparent backdrop in a pane? I'm creating 
a box with some interactive elements in its pane, and I want to see 
what's under the box

face/color: none

none mean transparent for View

it works! thank you :-)

petr: yes, it does. a /seek port operates differently from a /direct 
port. you can try it out on any beta with the async core (i.e. view 
1.2.57)

I notice the new view 1.3 request function now allows the keyboard 
to select an answer.  So, for an alert, a space bar is enough.
how can I get the same functionality with the sdk?

Another easy question, I have a login screen that starts off with

view center-face loginscreen


How do I make it so that the userid field has focus?  At present 
I have to use the mouse to activate the userid field before I can 
type.

f: field
do [focus f]

Thanks.

REQUEST is a mezzanine, so you can SOURCE it and patch it into your 
code.

Was just exploring the REBOL/Desktop and ran into a summary document 
of changes for 1.3.  Don't recall seeing this referenced from other 
sources... http://www.rebol.com/docs/changes-view.html

Of note,  section 2.6 Revised Image Datatype.... http://www.rebol.com/docs/image.html

Gregg, that was the first thing I tried.

I thought I'd ask here in case someone knew before I delved further 
into it.

Thanks Brock, I missed than one. ;)

Anyone know if there is any updates to the new /view such that we 
can activate a button and run a forever loop and still not inhibit 
view events? I don't want to have to use a wait command if I can 
help it.

I can't think of anything, but would wait really be that much of 
a hinderance?  Especially since even wait .0001 works.

Now that View 1.3 is out, does anyone know what the roadmap is ? 
 I would have thought it would be easiest to first release the SDK, 
then LNS, then IOS which may rely on LNS, and then OSX View?  Anyone 
got a better path?

Does anyone knows what the new build http://www.rebol.net/builds/031/rebview1300031a.exe
is?

The following used to work with View 1.2:


 view a: layout [btn 200x200 [view/new/options layout [btn 100x100] 
 reduce ['parent a]]]

but no longer works under 1.3. A bug?

What do you see that's different?

Click button to open 2nd window then click somewhere on the first 
window. With 1.2 the 2nd window correctly stays in the foreground, 
with 1.3 the first window comes to the foreground.

the betas act like 1.3

Looks like the change in behaviour occurred about April 2004

1.2.40.3.1 works as previous 1.2 versions, and 1.2.46.3.1 has the 
current behaviour.

Related to this, alerts used to remain at the front, and now they 
can be hidden by the parent window.

ashley: i think it's a bug. not sure if it's in rambo though.

1.3.0a is a test release. fixes a number of bugs (one important security 
bug in particular). if no new bugs are found there, it will be released 
as 1.3.1.

is there a list of bugs?

rambo. ;)

I was happy to see "request-dir" as I was updating a 6-year old tool 
that I use off and on. I was wondering if, for sake of continuity, 
there is a "windows" gui for this?

Ashley, I submitted it to Rambo.

Paul: Would  using a timer work for you? .. or launch the process 
in a new window. which probably isn't desirable.

Here is a simple e.g of using rate. (I'm sure you've already thought 
of this)
forever-block: [
	print now/precise
]

View layout [
	tm: led :forever-block
	area "so you test editing while process is running"

 t: tog "Start Process" "Stop Process" [either (face/text = "Start 
 Process") [tm/rate: 0:00:00] [tm/rate: none] show tm]
	"Stop Process" [tm/rate: 0 show tm]
]

:Woops: cut and paste some redundant bits
forever-block: [
	print now/precise
]

View layout [
	tm: led :forever-block
	area "so you test editing while process is running"

 tog "Start Process" "Stop Process" [either (face/text = "Start Process") 
 [tm/rate: 0:00:00] [tm/rate: none] show tm]
]

It states in link http://www.rebol.com/docs/changes-view.html, that 
a new modal system is used in 1.3 and will be developed further. 
 Maybe you need to specify now that the child window needs to stay 
infront?

I think it's a bug as an alert should stay in front, and they don't 
now.

Did anyone notice View/Desktop > Rebol > Tools > Roam  ?   An Animonitor 
like tool.

Just got a message to update my View.

Hmm. I'm in some type of upgrade loop.

Glad I said not yet for the install  ;-)

Just worked for me. Did you actually run the installer of the new 
exe?

Hello folks... just checking in to see how that 1.3.1 is doing for 
you.

See alpha/beta page for info -- more details will be available when 
Gregg returns.

Carl, what about alerts?

You see... more than 1 man band now.

Alerts.... eg. above comment?

alerts, no longer stay on top of calling window