World: r3wp

I think I knew this once, but need reminding :(

How to create a draw block dynamically with a number of different 
fonts.  You are not allowed to create the font inside the draw block 
as evaluation is not permitted, but word lookup is.

The only way I can see is to create the word that holds the font 
dynamically, and use reduce to insert the new word into the draw 
block.

or use the same word but different contexts

does draw honour the colour attribute of a font object ?  Seems not.

Quick question .. how to get the text out of an area widget formatted 
in the same way as it is on screen ( word wrapped etc ) ?

Or, is there a way to reuse the word wrapping routines that VID uses 
?

I've never seen a way to do that.

I think the 'textinfo function is used for that (used in ctx-text/text-edit). 
But we have no infos on how to use it and what it does exactly.

>> ? textinfo
USAGE:
    TEXTINFO face line-info line

DESCRIPTION:
     Sets the line text information in an object for a face.
     TEXTINFO is a native value.

ARGUMENTS:

     face -- The face for which the information is defined. (Type: object)

     line-info -- The object where the information will be set. (Type: 
     object)

     line -- The line to get information for. (Type: number any-string)

There is a fairly detailed description of TEXTINFO in http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-system.html
section 6.9.2

Ahh..after I implemented my own line wrapping routine :(

Anyway, good to know.

does it work?

What work?

your line wrapping routine

I've got a column of text about 40 chars, and I want it to snake 
up and down 3 columns on a page .. and it seems to work.

ie. the text to flow through the three columns.

in draw, if you place a block of text formatted with line feeds, 
it displays as is.

But in postscript, it ignores the line feed, carriage returns :(

A pity I can't pick up a draw object and move it around on screen 
:(

it would make page composition easier.

I was messing with that once, but never got it to work properly

layering VID faces on top of the DRAW sheet and drag them around

I guess I could use Frank's tiny paint program :)

How does John's paint program do it anyway?

I think he did it with DRAW directly early on, but I don't know how 
it works now.

his program doesn't have elements to move around

how does your program work? is it a dialect that can produce DRAW 
and PS?

Yes.

I might need something that can do some previewing next week...

Once I get it working, I'll show you.

I'm just spending some time setting up my page so that it looks okay 
:)

I'm going to do the same here with Johns dialect. Does yours produce 
PS from his dialect?

No, it uses my dialect.

I'm less concerned about scaling and rotations as I really only need 
text and lines/boxes.

I see :-/

And you ?

well, I need some scaling and 90 degree rotation. I'm creating the 
number marks you use in a marathon race to put on your chest and 
back.

Oh ...

you're going to bar code the marathon runners ??

already have the number mark done, but there is a catch: the number 
can only be seen after printing it out, due to the construction of 
the program. it would be nice to be able to preview it before printing.

yes

You've already seen my psd2draw.r script .. I just feed the same 
block thru my ps dialect to get the postsrcript and write that to 
a file.

then I would need to redo the barcode generator...

I think it's best for me right now to create a makeshift preview 
rather than an actual preview

are John's and my ps dialects that disimilar ?

I havent' checked yours out

are you on Mac still?

mac and windows