World: r3wp

These two examples show the difference more clearly:

view window: layout [
	f: field
	b: button "clone me" [f/text: b/text show window]
	button "clear-fields" [clear-fields window show window]
]

view window: layout [
	f: field
	b: button "copy me" [f/text: copy b/text show window]
	button "clear-fields" [clear-fields window show window]
]

AntonThanks for providing further info on the use of 'copy in this 
situation.

No worries. Usually these problems are result of a missing COPY. 
The rule is; whenever you set a string, think if it could be modified 
by anything.

(not just strings - all series! types actually)

Here is another small optimization:
s: join rsd/year either delim [
	["/" two-digits rsd/month "/" two-digits rsd/day]
][
	[two-digits rsd/month two-digits rsd/day]
]

http://www.opentv.com/onair/shopping/- kind of apps which View could 
excell at. Do you remember Gateway catalog demo?

Brock: where I am tempted to use 'copy, I'm often try and think of 
any potential benefits of using series modifiers instead.  Depends 
on the situation I suppose...

howto: append a block to list (view) during runtime from a function. 
how can I address the data from the listobject ?

Is there a way to constrain the size of a Draw text object?  eg. 
[pen black text 10x10 200x200 "My Text Here"]

Guest: that depends on how you are using the List style as it is 
fairly open-ended.

list or text-list? with list you keep your own data. with text-list 
 append tl/data [lines]  show tl/update
IIRC

size of draw-text: you want wrapping? afaik not. there is a complicated 
handmade way, you make a face of that size with 'wrap and use that 
to calculate the lines.

Max has a function to calculate the wrapping: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlMYRC

I have a text-list in a layout and I have a simple log-function:
log: func [message [string! block!]][
	append log-list/data rejoin [now/date "/" now/time " " message]
	show log-list
]

If MESSAGE is longer than the width of the text-list MESSAGE isn't 
shown. Why this? The first two parts NOW/DATE and NOW/TIME are shown.

I expected that MESSAGE gets clipped

yeah, but it doesn't. .it just gets dropped from the display

That has been annoying me for some years.

Hmm... is there a simple fix, patch available?

I don't recall ever running into that specific problem before but 
I know that I've always done more than just SHOWing the text-list 
after updating its data...

Ok, that's a hint. So Ammon, what have you done? :-)) Shoot it?

What version of REBOL are you using?

Link

REBOL/Link 1.0.6.3.1 3-Aug-2002

text-list/update

Sounds like a wrapping issue in the iterated faces...

Yes it does.

yeah, wraps to another line that you can't see

I try it... just a moment.

Add this to your text-list:

with [append init [iter/para/wrap?: false]]

Ammon, nice effect: It doesn't update at all :-)) I have to click 
into the text-list than it updates. But the long line is still missing.

But I don't want to wrap it. I just want to see as much as possible 
with the rest being clipped.

Did you show it after you updated it?

Try the code Chris gave...

Now it updates but no long line. I try Chris' code. Need to go, sorry. 
Bye.

Ok, this fixes the problem... Now the text is clipped.

aahhh, no matter how deeply you know something, there is always something 
that gets on your nerve...

changing the button font color seems to be a genuine pain... can 
someone refresh me why its impossible?


this doesn't work... altough I've allocated a stand-alone font and 
have removed all the dynamic code which AFAIK plays around with the 
font or text:



view layout [button "ok" font [color: red] with [feel: make feel 
[redraw: none over: none]]]

yet, this works:


view layout [text "ok" font [color: red] with [feel: make feel [redraw: 
none over: none]]]

you have to set 'colors, not 'color:

view layout [button "ok" font [colors: reduce [red white]] with [feel: 
make feel [redraw: none over: none]]]
for a button with inactive color red and active color white

strange I tried it earlier and it didn't work...

so basically, If I try with a font without colors attribute, then 
it should work?

for 'button yes - font/color is a copy of font/colors/1 at  init

AHHH that's it... forgot to look in init...

that is evil...

I mean, init swapping the color...

merci Vincent

Anyone had Norton 2005 worm detection, blocking REBOL/view as a worm 
called "DeepThroat Trojan Horse" ? I've had it twice today whilst 
using rebol for ftp uploads

I'm hoping this a false reading, and my machine hasn't been infected/hijacked