World: r3wp

submitted radio-group bugs to trac ... seems a large number of active 
tickets :(

What's the best way to allow a user to define their own forms without 
reimplementing Vid or rebgui parser ?

I just tried rebgui, and I have a few questions ...

is there a reason, that display opens the windows, but does not start 
do-events? This seems a bit strange to me. When testing layouts in 
the console, I mostly end up with inactive windows.

Is it possible to get the window size?

Is it possible to set an own resizer function?

I have tried to create something like a calendar layout:

two TEXTs, and a TEXT-LIST below them, and then 2 rows and 2 columns 
of this. 

The internal resizer was not able to cope with this, either the left 
widgets, or the right widgets were resized. Is it just me, or is 
the resizer not able to cope with this?

show us your code...

RT is promoting Rebgui http://www.rebol.net/article/0280.html

Version 1, left, down resized ...

display "Test 1" [
   tight
   text 40 #w "free" 
   text 10 #w "11"
   text 40 #w "empty" 
   text 10 #w "12"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry3" ]
   return
   text 40 #w "nothing" 
   text 10 #w "21"
   text 40 #w "whatever" 
   text 10 #w "22"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry3" ]
]
do-events

Version 2, upper left resized ...
display "Test 2" [
   tight
   text 40 #w "free" 
   text 10 #wx "11"
   text 40 #wx "empty" 
   text 10 #wx "12"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hw data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hwx data ["entry3" ]
   return
   text 40 #wy "nothing" 
   text 10 #wxy "21"
   text 40 #wxy "whatever" 
   text 10 #wxy "22"
   return
   text-list 50x50 #hwy data ["entry1" "entry2"]
   text-list 50x50 #hwxy data ["entry3" ]
]
do-events

the first one you need a #Y for those you want to have a y displacement

what's wrong with the second one?

I've been looking at how to save a form contents and reload the same 
values when opening the form.

all the widgets are anonymous

when I save the form contents, I just go through the pane and grab 
all the values for the widgets I have viz: radio-groups, and edit-lists.

And to restore the form contents, in the do block of the layout, 
I go thru the layout and restore the values.

Only trouble is .. it's not working for me.

How to reference the layout from within a do block ?

I can't use the reference returned by 'display because the display 
hasn't finished yet.

IIRC you have it in 'face in the do-block

Let me try ..

display "Example" compose [
    button "a" [alert "hi"] field "a" return 
    button "b" field "b" return 
    do [
        foreach fac face/pane[
 probe fac/text
]
    ]
]

Nope .. not working.

let me try a smaller example ..

mine works here. has rebgui change?

keeps changing all the time!

Hmm.

Has rebgui changed in that regard? :)

Smaller example works here too.

must be doing something else bad ..

confidential code?

display "Test" [
	group-box "Box1" data [
		field 100 return
		field 100 return 
	]
	do [	
		foreach f face/pane [
			if f/type = 'group-box [
				foreach t f/pane [
					t/text: copy "hello"
				]
			]
		]
	]
] do-events

works fine

not confidential code .. just very long!

maybe i can dig to the important points.

i am sometimes good at probing.

hang on ....

maybe i find the bug.

fixed :)

Grats :)

helps to talk about these things :)

very true:)

Graham, good tip: Don't save/restore anonymous widgets. If (whyever) 
the order of faces change you are lost. I always use named widgets, 
even it's more to code. But I can move the stuff around without any 
problems. And my widgets have the same name as the database-columns.

can't do ... users are allowed to create the forms

But they could be forced to name the fields?

but they could overwrite globals

they might name a field rebol: field 100

i would take roberts suggestion but use my own naming. eg have a 
/my-name in your fields and compare with that.

Graham, simple fix: Just prefix each field name internally with graham_<field-name-by-user> 
and you are save.

this is an example form http://www.compkarori.com/emr/images/cvs.png