World: r3wp

It's ON-UNFOCUS in face flags.  Compare:
	view layout [f: field [print "action"] text-list]
	print mold f/flags

 view layout [f: field [print "action"] with [deflag-face self on-unfocus] 
 text-list]
	print mold f/flags

As I have mentioned before here I have been working on turning strings 
into code. I've used this:
set in get to-set-word "myobj" 'text   "change a value"
where myobj: make object! [text: "default"]

and this works! I just don't know why  get to-set-word "myobj"  behaves 
that way. I'm hoping it's not a fluke because it's my Mr. Helper. 
Anyone able to explain that?

You can get from a word! as well as the corresponding set-word! and 
get-word!.  They are all the same word, after all.

So, in your example, you could replace TO-SET-WORD with TO-WORD.

I see. But what am I "getting"?

GET gets the value of the word, which you previously set to an object. 
So, GET returns that object.

Then the to-word just know by context that myobj was an object, eh? 
 The reason I ask that is that if  it was just a word and not an 
object I don't seem to have to use get.:
>> a: "test"
== "test"
>> set to-word "a" "hello"
== "hello"
>> a
== "hello"
>> set in to-word "myobj" 'text "hello"
** Script Error: in expected object argument of type: object port
** Where: halt-view
** Near: set in to-word "myobj" 'text
>> myobj/text
== "eeee"

>> set in get to-word "myobj" 'text "hello"
== "hello"

It's all good. I just was curious. Thanks Anton.

Thanks Anton!

Nicolas, you're welcome.

James, TO-WORD does not interact with the value of the word it is 
creating.

glad to see VID3 with ability to
   some-useful-name: "you will debug listbox3 someday" 
   attach 'some-useful-name

I can't remember now .. but how do you start a rebol process with 
a systray?

I mean you start the systray with do-events, but then you can't start 
your forever [ process ]

I thought you used the system:// port.

I guess if you're using a gui, you can kick off your process with 
a timer event on a face ...

Just wondering how's it's done with just the systray icon and no 
GUI

and no console

graham, maybe look at my clips.r script, it is systray only.

http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/MD3/examples/clips.html

http://www.colellachiara.com/soft/MD3/examples/clips.r

Thanks

I've abstracted the systray/forever loop out here 
http://rebol.wik.is/Code_Samples/Systray.r

S3 backup? You have plans..... beware that for large volumes you 
*have to* parallelize. SQS is there for a reason

Yes ... but it's for small volumes ... maybe a few gbs only

Is there an option to have no caret but capture keyboard events? 
 I'd like to get navigation keys for example but don't want a visible 
caret.

I see notes about using detect for hot keys instead of engage, is 
that the best way or is there a way to turn the caret part off?

FOCUS/NO-SHOW will hide the caret.

Thanks Henrik, exactly what I was looking for.

There's  a problem with that, in that as soon as you show a parent 
face, the caret will appear, because the subface will also be rendered 
by SHOW.

So if you SHOW the window face that the field is in while the field 
has the caret, then the field will be SHOWn as well, and the caret 
will be rendered.

If you look in the source of FOCUS, you can see what it's doing. 
Just do the same, except without setting the caret.

Thanks Anton, I will dig deeper then and see what my best option 
is.  I have detect version working but want to know how to manage 
this with engage if I need to.

I have a patch to handle this situation in a general way (focus-system-patch).

I was looking for a way to facilitate the Alt-Printscreen, go to 
Paint, paste, save as .png drudgery and I was close except them I 
found out that clipboard:// only works with text. :-( Gregg and Christian 
created this capture-screen.r app which is pretty amazing. I wonder, 
however, if there will ever be an improvement to the clipboard?

I'm having trouble with stylize/master

stylize/master [

 matrix-area: area with [colors: [0.0.0  0.0.0] font/color: 150.255.150]
] this makes all font/colors 150.255.150

does anyone know why?

matrix-area: area with [colors: [0.0.0  0.0.0] font: make font [color: 
150.255.150]]

thanks :)

or
stylize/master [

 matrix-area: area with [colors: [0.0.0 0.0.0]] font [color: 150.255.150]
]

The reason is the FONT object is shared amongst several styles.
	>> svv/vid-styles/area/font = svv/vid-styles/field/font
	== true
and AREA INIT does nothing to clone it
	>> print mold svv/vid-styles/area/init
	[
	    if color [colors: reduce [color colors/2]]

     if not string? text [text: either text [form text] [copy ""]]
	    if not flag-face? self hide [data: text] para: make para []
	]

(no mention of FONT). So after instanciation, the font is still the 
same.
	view layout [my-area: area]
	my-area/font = system/view/vid/vid-styles/area/font 
	;== true

and incase it's not obvious svv = s v v

(which is system/view/vid)

James, I did one side of bitmap support for clipboard://, and there 
are other ways around it, depending on what you need to do. E.g., 
imagemagick.

Gregg, what I wanted to do was simply take what was in the clipboard:// 
(via a printscreen) and save it as a png or bmp, thereby skipping 
the monotonous paste into Paint and save.

Try Lightscreen: http://lightscreen.sourceforge.net/

There's a portable app version too.

Ah, I did the writing part, and then used my send-keys dialect to 
pump keystrokes to other apps to automate the other side. In my case, 
it was putting things into a NetMeeting whiteboard.