World: r3wp

http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/cookbook.html#section-2.3

Could anyone explain, what does following stupid hack mean?


;-- Must be done prior to loading anything that requires fonts on 
Linux.

layout [text "imanXwin kludge"] ;-throw this one away soon-- okay?

open-events

It actually prevents SDK from rebface + rebgui usage. So instead 
of fixing crashes we do like above?

IIRC, it initializes X or something.

what about changing the hack to the resulting layout object. shouldn't 
that work the same way?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kludge

hmm, interesting henrik, it could work .... so you think that e.g. 
make face! or rebgui equivalent should be sufficient?

well, LAYOUT is a mezz and everything that happens to build that 
face is a mezz, so there should be a way to extrapolate a new hack 
that doesn't require VID.

the way I see it, try a simple make face [text: "simplerhack" font: 
make face/font []] I don't know if the font object is directly available 
in rebface, but try it.

ok, but when my friend on linux commented those lines out, it crashed. 
The question is why? Isn't rebgui initialising x-win in some way 
too?

I will try to look for some equivalents and let my friend to try 
it ....

actually I think it is. when we were fixing 2.7.6 for OSX Leopard 
we had a very similar problem and I had to build rebface with a face 
that loaded a font. it was done entirely without VID.

I guess you can't just use the resulting layout object. It's very 
large.

Not really sdk, but I've finally found a use for those fast launch 
buttons on my laptop .. they now encap the latest versions of my 
software .. much easier than finding the compile.cmd script in the 
now very large source directory!

I'm trying to use the

'call' command to call dar (Disk Archive), but I get this:

---- exception type = [DECI] ----------
[source]
    deci.cpp : digit_htoc : invalid decimal digit
    deci.cpp : digit_htoc : 
    deci::deci : string
[most outside call]
-----------------------------------

INTERNAL ERROR, PLEASE REPORT THE PREVIOUS OUTPUT TO MAINTAINER

The command I'm calling works fine when entered at the console. Any 
idea what is causing this problem?

Here is one of the source code files for dar which shows where the 
error is coming from (I think), but I don't know cpp.

http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/dar-2.3.8.tar.gz:a/dar-2.3.8/src/libdar/deci.cpp

Figured it out. It was a dar problem, and not a rebol problem. My 
script is working now.

hello, i have a slight problem.  i already have a sdk licence for 
windows and i need the sdk for linux

i know its possible to have it for 1 dollar but i dont find the way 
to have it

That's news to me.  I paid $50 less for my linux sdk.

you already had the windows sdk ?

Yes.

I had the windows command sdk.

xavier; Drop Cindy a note. She may be able to help you out, or at 
the very least, she knows what's what and is the final arbiter afaik. 
 Start at http://rebol.com/contacts.html

.

Just ordered the SDK but I have not yet received the confirmation 
email. Is there usually a long delay?

Is the SDK being sold anymore?

can take a few hours

Did you use paypal or something else?

I told Carl of your purchase and Cindy will check it out.

I used master card. Still no email. 
I hope its being sold as I can't wait for r3...

Carl knows about it .. so don't worry!

what email acount did you use?

He's still on line on the R3alpha world ... I'll pass on your details. 
 Which SDK ?  Command or just pro?

pro 
[fergus4-:-bellatlantic-:-net]

sorry sdk -  not command and not pro

not command/sdk

Do thry still sell view/pro now that view has dll access?

Yes

Got it. Thanks for the help, Graham.

no problems

hope you get your product out there!  :)

What's the best way to detect different versions in an encapped script? 
For automatic update purposes. 

Should I just include some versioning syntax in the name of the updated 
exe that sits on the server?
Also...

I''m having trouble downloading exe's and saving them locally while 
preserving the icons. Do I use read-thru?

I use two methods.  One a cgi script that returns the version of 
the most current distro. If the user's version is less, they need 
to update.

The other way is just to use datestamps. I build in a build time 
into the binary, and use that to check against the latest version 
on the server.  If the server version is newer, the client knows 
to update.  There are some issues with different timezones etc, but 
generally my servers run GMT, and i compute the build time at the 
time of encapping also in GMT.

A script does the upload of the new build so that the build time 
and server file times are not so different .. and I allow an error 
of 5 minutes

I''m having trouble downloading exe's and saving them locally while 
preserving the icons. Do I use read-thru?


I'm not clear on the question. Are you changing the internal icons 
in the exe, and those are on your desktop, but they change when you 
install a new version?