World: r3wp

I use the group box as a visual container and not a functional one

In a radio group, if you preset a value eg data [ 1 "M" "F" ], the 
radio/data is none, whereas it should be 1.

Hmm.  Works in my test .. just not in my program :(

1) display mod - just by adding "view-face" at the end of the function 
I presume? Does that give you what you need? (I was thinking of adding 
a "no-show" type refinement for folks who wanted display to return 
a face *without* doing a view - to-image being the main usage case)


2) Window options - needing to set these implies a new widget is 
required or you need more control than RebGUI was designed for


3) Group-box is a functional grouping, tabbing between widgets within 
the same group-box is normal behaviour - what is missing is *another* 
mechanism to tab into and out of group boxes

1. yes.

shadwolf - is your list-view widget (v0.52) ready for me to merge 
into 0.3.8 or should I wait until it's 100%?

Having view-face returned means I can create an image of the layout 
with to-image.

How can I set the title of an existing window ?

show-title

which requires a face object

So, how to find face object ?

You need the view-face returned by display/

This is what i am doing to fill a form up from data

display "" [ r: radio-group 30 data [ "M" "F" ] return
button "Value" [ print r/data ]
do [	r/pane/2/feel/engage r/pane/2 'down none ]
] do-events

print r/data gives none instead of 2

Ok, I can set r/data: 2 at the same time.

1) show-title

	display "a" [button 200 [show-title face/parent-face "b"]]

	or

	display "a" [button 200 [show-title p "b"] do [p: face]]

2) radio-group

	display "" [
		r: radio-group 30 data [2 "M" "F" ]
		return
		button "Value" [ print r/data ] 
	]

ok.

in the radio group though, I have a form already up, and I am pulling 
in data from a file to repopulate the form.

So, in the do block of the window, I am reading the data from a file, 
and then settting all the values.

Fair enough, although in that case you could also do something like:

	blk: read my-file
	display "" compose/deep [
		...
		r: radio-group 30 data [ (blk/5)  "M" "F" ] 
		...
	]

Not sure if you are looking for any inspiration or other ideas... 
here is a link to a javascript version of a pretty nice Data Grid... 
http://www.activewidgets.com/

I believe the code is downloadable as well.

r: radio-group 30 data [ (blk/5)  "M" "F" ]


Except doesn't this mean I now will need two versions of the same 
layout?  One with compose, and one without?

Is there a way to stop data wrapping inside a field, or row of a 
table - like the nowrap option for VID fields?

Only one layout needed as the compose would be within a func (i.e. 
dynamically built as opposed to static). nowrap option? Do you have 
a VID example, havn't used that VID option myself.

I think it's just 

area 200x40 nowrap

Not sure I understand what you mean about compose being within a 
func.

Perhaps you could allow this

radio "blah" data [ none "1" "2" "3" ]

to indicate no choice as an option.

currrently it creates an extra button labelled "none"

What's wrong with the current behaviour? e.g.:

	radio "blah" data [ "1" "2" "3" ]

Compose within a func:

	show-my-display: has [ blk ] [
		blk: load ...
		display "" compose/deep [
			...
		]
	]

So, what do you do if the user did not previously select an option 
in a radio group?

That  () within the data block has to be removed.

I see the problem. Perhaps radio-group should treat none and / or 
0 as "no selection" as well?

yes please.

nowrap option not supported as that would require a horizontal scroll 
bar. Of the many scroll areas I have looked at, especially online, 
only a small percentage are of the nowrap type. It has been my experience 
that users (especially those familiar with Office type products) 
expect wrap in these cases.

Ok, let me explain.

I have a table with one field ( the last one ) with approx 100 - 
1000 chars in it.  I only want to display the first x characters, 
but it displays with the field wrapped if there are any cr in the 
text.

I was thinking I was going to have to have a real table holding the 
data, and one for display purposes.

What if the table widget had a "flatten" type option that did a replace/all 
CR on your data?

yeah, that would be good.

no....!

I need the data as it is ...

I just want to not have it wrap inside a single line.

Let me rephrase: if it did a replace/all on the *displayed* data.

Ahh, well, that would be fine.

what determines the size of the bar ? Sometimes I see it go half 
way across a layout, and sometimes fully across.

As widgets are placed a max-width value is kept. At the point a bar 
is placed its width, unless otherwise specified, is assigned the 
"current" max-width. For the typical case, where a bar appears on 
a line by itself and further lines will not increase in width, this 
is fine. In other cases, like a bar in the middle of a line, you 
should give it an explicit width.

Just wondering if it would be useful to allow rebgui and vid to operate 
together.  So, you could do all the easy stuff that rebgui allows 
you to do, and when you needed something it couldn't do, then to 
use Vid instead.

Is the drop down list of a fixed size?  Can that be made proportional 
to the bounding functional group or window?