World: r3wp

Err, actually with a wait like: num: 1 win: view/new layout [cnt: 
label (form num)] while [viewed? win] [cnt/text: form num: num + 
1 show cnt wait 1]

how do you get anything else done?

Quick and dirty, but not the same as the event, as it does not account 
for processing time.

using a time event is like multitasking whereas your quick and dirty 
way makes it difficult to do anything else ...

A face with a rate and time catcher in the engage function.

yeah, like triggering on the vertical sweep on the C64 :)

yes, I understand the downside to the quick and dirty.

I know a thing or two about that as well.

do you use insert-event?

there's this nasty problem though : http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/rambo.r?id=3593&

discovered while I was writing my portal software

Somehow avoided that one, near miss I guess.

Yeah .. strange that it has laid hidden for such a long time.

num: 1 view layout [cnt: label (form num) rate 1 feel [engage: [cnt/text: 
form num show cnt num: num + 1]]]

Slick

num: 1 view layout [cnt: label (form num) rate 1 feel [engage: [cnt/text: 
form num: num + 1 show cnt]]]

quick and dirty though, the minor problem is that reponds to ui events.

I have a timer/clock style if you are interested.

Submit it to the rebol.org for me.

To prevent ui events and have counter start with 1 using your short 
form:

num: 0 view layout [cnt: label (form num) rate 1 feel [engage: func 
[face action event] [if action = 'time [cnt/text: form num: num + 
1 show cnt]]]]

Ryna ... see ... http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=timer-styles.r
Its quite old ..... but I have used it daily.

(Note .... There is a bug with the timers if you are timing an inerval 
over midnight)

Its so old it was done before now/precise was available :-/

It seems to me that a timer style should be considered for VID. Its 
such a commonly used thing, it should be able to be tapped without 
any underlying knowledge of VID. Plus, it would take very little 
room and be widely used.

Funny: 
downloaded an old /View beta (0.9.9) from web.archive.org

http://web.archive.org/web/20000830122735/www.rebol.com/downloads/view/rebol909031.exe

and started it. Pushed "Check REB Site": Before /View desktop, "REB 
Services"!

I asked Anton directly but some of you may know a work-around. I'm 
using his scroll-table style but when I call a face using it within 
a reblet it does not "do" it. It works from the command line with 
a "view face" but not within. Is there something akin to "reduce" 
which would, for lack of a better phrase, force a face to recompute 
itself entirely? I tried "show" and "focus."

(sorry, message cut by altme?) ... lanched /View 0.9.9, clicked on 
"Check REB Site": Before /View desktop, "REB Services"!

anyone know a where I can find some discussions on caret ?  I want 
to sort out some things in text area and feels.

nature of the problem?

I want to change the color, I want to be sure how to find it, set 
it, etc...and review the know problems...get up to speed.

Dont know about color.

I do know a bit about selecting text.

have you tried chainging the shape of the caret?

nope, thats one level beyond me.

well, for a baby step, I want to have the caret by default at the 
beginning of the text, without having to tap it with the mouse.

and some keycodes to move the caret about.

(this might just be as simple as finding a good style to use...

try setfocus

err, focus rather

caret position is simply the text position (series position) of the 
text.

ah, that is simple...thanks.

there is some caret functions for decoding relative position too, 
but I havent used them in years.

caret-to bla bla bla

bla bla bla to-caret

sounds like "eh, what's up, doc?"

ahh, offset-to-caret

and caret-to-offset

is that for drag-selecting text?

you would use it to implement text dragging possibly. offset-to-caret 
 returns the position of text relative to a graphical position x/y.

i assume you have probably already used highlight-start and highlight-end.

no, I have just used text-area for stuff like that...now I need to 
change the behavior of it some.