World: r3wp

only the word must be a set-word already in the block

Yep.  That's what my function does -- puts the word in the block 
and uses stylize.

ah, ok!

Does one know what is the used of the 'text flag ?

And why does flag-face and deflag-face copy the flags block before 
modifying it ???

One possibility: the default flags block may be  global -- shared 
between all default faces. So, to alter an instance, it needs a specific 
copy.

It was my first though, but block! are not shared between object!.

Or was it done for an old View version where 'make does not duplicate 
block! ???

I think so.

For the 'text flag, I have found. It is used by multi/color to dispatch 
tuple! values to face/font/color or face/color.

is there any gui designer out there ?

Guest, you should get your login name in Accounts.

and yes, there are some brilliant gui designers around...some of 
the best in the industry.

thx for reply eFishAnt, are these gui designers working with rebol 
? (e.g. creating a rebol code skeletons)

there are some absolutely brilliant GUI's that various REBOLers have 
designed.  I don't know where to start the list...and there is a 
layout.r tool which generates a GUI from a pallete of styles...not 
sure what you are looking for

layout.r gives you a Reblet (more flesh than a skeleton) and you 
can add actions to buttons, etc...if that is what you mean

(skeleton with flesh, but no fat)

a graphical gui designer. drag and drop controls/components on a 
form . something like a nice IDE...

yes...at first I thought you meant a person...a gui designer...misunderstood 
;-)

a commercial product will be welcome also.

I have done a lot of work to improve layout.r  and more to do in 
the future...but it is a good system, better than commercial products.

who are you?

perfect, will take a closer look at this. perhaps it is a good idea 
to include a foreign tools/component page at rebol, to inform newbies 
about software making life easier.

http://www.rebol.net/has links to lots of places info for developers...let 
me find a couple good specific ones

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/search.rwill give you 
the page to search and try layout.r if you want to try the old version.

I think Sunada has thought to do some download statistics for scripts 
people download.

have had a look to layout.r. very impressive and entired written 
in rebol, a good starting point to step faster into view.

It saves a Reblet and it lets you lay out styles where you want them. 
 The code it generates in REBOL is much more readible than archaic 
systems like Visual C++/.Net  and Delphi

agree, very flexible dynamic code generator. increasing the gadgets 
like list, tree  tab (e.g. as macro) will be very nice too :-)) thx 
for heading me to this.

so I still don't know who you are...you should get an account in 
here.

tom, from spain. have had a account but was lost during the crash. 
will make a new .

cool, just post a message in Accounts and one of the men-in-black-hats 
will serve you.

Maxim also has a glayout.r in that library...and his demos at DevCon 
2004 were a smash.

men in black :-) hopefully there will not flash me ... (but wait, 
perhaps this is fine because it could be easier to lern rebol, leaving 
the old coding paradigm at home) :-))))  thx, for your help.

great comeback, tom

always the salesman ;)

it's easy to sell the best.

http://powerofq.com/skins/rpoq.jpg

Nice picture there, Terry! The  "look-out" within the 'O' reminds 
me of some pictures, I made with my Amiga500 many years ago. :-) 
But we didn't have such nice colour fading back then. Very nice!

Is it possible to check on keyboard key-pressed and key-released 
events, like you can with mouse-button down and up? I need that for 
e.g. movement in games.

there is trouble with keyboard in rebol. I am not sure, but IIRC 
Cyphre can talk about that. You can't catch key-up event for e.g., 
no ctrl plus tab, etc keys ...

We already asked RT for new abstracted keyboard handler .... they 
tried to stay compatible, but not having some key combinations is 
not solution too ...

There's a fine example in the feel how-to: http://www.rebol.com/how-to/feel.html

But it will only catch key-press events, as I see it. So again, is 
it possible to catch key-release events, anyone?

I think not ....

You can look for Cyphre's Shadow of the beast demo -  it is nice, 
it also shows parallax scrolling to some degree, but keyboard is 
real limitation ....

ok, will have a look.

Yes, his demo only catch key-pressed events too, so it seems, release 
events isn't supported yet. Well, I'll stick with that for now then.

I was once working on a game, and to make the character move, I used 
the basic code

of the "raw key press" button on http://www.rebol.net/plugin/tests/test.html

It worked quite well, the character kept moving as long as the key 
was held.

the main problem is lack of 'key-up' (and maybe 'key repeat') events. 
But the key-up is the most fundamental one. Without this we aren't 
able to make multi-keypress control. So for example when user is 
holding up-arrow he is not able to move to left by pressing left-arrow 
simultaneously.

Moreover REBOL is using some high level OS keyboard handling routines 
so if you have setup key repeat delay too long on your system...this 
will affect your control in Rebol app too...so if user wants to go 
left he press the left-arrow but the 'repeat' events are sent after 
the delay (from os setup) so the action is delayed..very annoying.

I can see, it must be hard to support these features on all platforms. 
It's rather deep down in the OS.