World: r3wp

OK, Carl asked me to announce this, so this will be quick and dirty:

The VID Extension Kit for R2:


This is a library that overhauls VID and the styles to improve the 
experience in using it and creating bigger programs with it. This 
is very much a work in progress, but if I continue to keep it under 
wraps, I'll never get it out. :-)

Quick feature list:

- Full tab navigation
- Field validation and autoformatting
- Full resizing
- Many new flags

- Much better face control: disabling/enabling faces, different setting 
and getting of panels, complex face navigation

- Many new styles: Selectors, balancers, lists, fields, panels, scrollers, 
iterators

- Many VID bugs are fixed, although the impossible ones still remain

- Many new VID bugs are introduced as well :-) Some styles are not 
working.

Try it out at:

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/vid/src/vid-ext-kit.r

A simple style browser is available at:

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/vid/tools/style-browser.r

Very preliminary docs at:

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/vid/docs/vid-extension-kit.html


I'll release the full sources later, but have a look and see what 
you think. Remember to ask questions.

A little bit surprised, that I was asked, if systray support done 
by Cyphre for my purposes, could be used by others, as I stated it 
obviously here on altme. To put the confusion aside, Cyphre managed 
to release it publicly - license - BSD:

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=tray.r

I asked Cyphre to add some examples, he will do it as time permits. 
This new released version should be more stable and should work both 
with VID and RebGUI ....

I've finally released my App for Beta testing..over a years work 
and much more to go before all the features are implemented that 
will make it a sellable product.


I wanted to take a moment to thank this community as I would not 
have been able to get this far without the Rebol language and even 
more so the Rebol Community. Thank you all for your patient guidance, 
and helpful hints and example code.


I would like to thank some personally as they have been super helpful 
(I hope I do not leave anyone out)
In no special order:
Dockimbel
Graham
Pekr
Henrik
Gabriele
Sunanda
oldes
Paul
Maxim
btiffin
Nick
Reichart
I'm sure I missed a few that helped considerably…sorry if I did.

Anyway, about the App...

It's a study tool for the FDNY Promotional Exams. It incorporates 
all the FDNY Manuals into a special format (Similar to Make-doc) 
and allows you to hi-lite, "attach" notes, search the entire catalogue, 
bookmark your place, track "buzz words" Future versions will incorporate 
thousands of test questions all of which are linked to the material 
by book, chapter, and section, and also the ability to add tour own 
questions. Curriculums will be added to guide study of only pertinent 
materials for and test and the ability to form your own curriculums.


Updates to the program and the study material is automatic as well 
as synchronization of a users hi-lites, notes etc. ( this allows 
for a user to use from multiple locations, home/work etc., and also 
serves as a back-up method for what could be months of work for the 
user.

Many more plans...


If you are interested, my site is still alpha and looks like crap 
but it has some screen shots and a video of the program in action. 
I'm using Cheyenne (Thanks Doc) and there is a cute (but ugly) RSP 
page that handles my FAQs page... http://firecaptainnyc.com


If you are really interested, feel free to contact me and I can give 
you the link to download it....

There is a guest mode and demo mode built in...

I welcome any feedback!

Oh let me not forget Anton as I'm using some of his styles...

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altwebform.r

[load-webform to-webform]


Loads/serializes data in application/x-www-form-urlencoded format 
allowing for nested values:

	>> load-webform "a.b=c"
	== [a [b "c"]]


Allows more structured data form otherwise 2d web form data  Or can 
simply be used to encode 2d data for 'rest' services.  Extracted 
from QM.

Example:

	>> to-webform [q "Search String"]
	== "q=Search+String"

Some core Twitter API functions: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/twitter.html

	? twitter
	tw: twitter/find #REBOL
	twitter/as "rgrebol" "****"
	fr: twitter/friends
	new: twitter/update "Now"


Results are XML objects - see http://bit.ly/xml_rebol(probe result/tree 
for structure).  Will add more at some point.

http://twitter.com/rgrebol

You can also browse or do http://bit.ly/AltTwt

I did a few tests loading up OpenGL/GLut and it worked without a 
hitch... waiting for Carl to add a few features before I can continue.


screen shot of a rotating cube http://www.pointillistic.com/open-REBOL/moa/steel/R3-OGL.png

doh... wrong group... sorry...

Max, is the C source code available? As a reference how to do extensions 
etc.

no, but its pretty much the same as what is documented on the R3 
extensions site... its really easy.

if you have visual studio (even the free express is enough) then 
it takes just a few minutes to get Carl's examples working.

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/color-code.r

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/color-code.html- should now work with 
R3

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/r3webform.html<- R3 version of alt-webform 
(see 9/21)

Chris:I tried color-code.r with Rebol3 and did not work ?

Anything in  particular?

An error, etc?  I've been using it with 2.100.94.2.5

I just released what I think is very the first R3 specific script 
on rebol.org  :-)


A BNF grammar converter for rebol:  http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=bnf-compiler.r

Fully documented within the source (more than 4kb of text).

It has a few little cool grammar processing features and some interesting 
things it *can't* do.

R2 update has been scheduled - read the following message carefully.

Did altme eat the message?

We need to update R2, however, I do not want to make this a complicated, 
time consuming release... because I do not have extra time (between 
R3 and Website changes.)


The top goals are to remove the restrictions on the special features 
in View, and also to add SSL, if at all possible in a short period 
of time.


The goal IS NOT to fix every little bug... because that would delay 
the release for a year... or more.

However, if we can manage to get a new R2 out, then I suggest we 
start scheduling regular monthly releases, if only just to fix a 
few bugs or for BrianH and other pending enhancements.

DO NOT discuss this R2 topic here. If someone can post a note in 
the proper group for discussion, I'll answer questions there.

http://www.rebol.it/power-mezz/

Great stuff!

Wow! what is this power-mezz .. there seems to be really really cool 
stuff inthere??

(Replies in "Ann-reply" please)

Jaime has agreed today to change the license for BEER from GPL to 
BSD to allow it to be ported to R3.  Either he or I will post the 
code with the new license.

Slowly extending our "Rebol development studio". We have added a 
twitter page:http:// www.rm-asset.com/twitter

I'm having difficulty reading the text .. the font is too small for 
me.  Yes, i can change the font size ...

Rebol development studio
? What is this?

This is me doing the Rebol soft sell to a captive audience :)

http://www.bt.com.bn/en/news-national/2010/03/08/electronic-medical-record-systems-may-gain-prominence-future

Hi Doctor Graham Chiu,  It is nice to put a face to a username!!! 
 Wish you every success with EMR!!!

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=metadb.r- Quick and dirty 
associative database (R2 only):

	write meta/Chris/first "Christopher"
	read meta/Chris/last
	person: [user "Chris" first "Christopher" last "Ross-Gill"]
	write meta/(person/user)/last person/last
	write meta/Chris/added now
	read meta/(person/user)

Hmm, example faulty, should read:

	write meta/Chris/first "Christopher"
	read meta/Chris/first
	person: [user "Chris" first "Christopher" last "Ross-Gill"]
	write meta/(person/user)/last person/last
	write meta/Chris/added now
	read meta/(person/user)

R3 version: http://ross-gill.com/r/r3metadb.r


Only caveat is that you are limited to writing strings, blocks and 
binary, so you can do the following in R2 but not R3:

	write meta/Chris/home http://www.ross-gill.com/

Tweet: Carl is asking for any urgent bug fixes needed for 2.7.8

From a suggestion by Christopher Ross-Gill (thanks Chris!):


-- REBOL.org's RSS feed now has the most recent posts from the AltME 
REBOL3 world

-- You can also see the most recent posts on the website, via this 
link:
    http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent


By default, both show the most recent 100 posts. You can set your 
own value between 0 and 255 -- more details below.


RSS FEED INFO
=============
See the RSS help page for more details:
   http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=rss-help


WEB PAGE
=========

http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent==> most recent 
100 posts by default

http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent:200   ==> most recent 
200 posts

Slightly more information here:
    http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=aga-search-help#toc-3

Please let me know the problems!

The InfoQ-QCon Beijing 2010 conference will be held next week. I 
have two sessions: one is CEP, the other is REBOL. 
* 2010-4-23/16:30 (By Jerry Tsai) A Glance at REBOL

* 2010-4-25/13:10 (By Jerry Tsai) An Introduction to CEP (Complex 
Event Processing) . BTW, my CEP system was implemented in REBOL.

Check it out here: http://www.qconbeijing.com/agenda.html

what is complex event processing?

I'm curious as just implement the most flexible and advanced, yet 
simple to use event stream system I've ever used.

[CEP-:-Wiki]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_event_processing

aaaahh ok.  a completely different mindset on the meaning of  "Event" 
 :-)

still as I read about it, it sems my system functions following the 
general principles in what I read.

Recently, people talk about CEP a lot. Microsoft will release their 
CEP server "StreamInsight" soon.

Might be a new buzzword. Who knows?

WG! -> Ann-Reply