World: r3wp

yes, its in drop-tree

Is that a critical widget for you?

No, I am removing it now.

It was nice to have but no critical

chart, 
drop-tree, 
grid & 
input-grid need a bit of work to get 
them working again with Beta 2.

Ok.

What do you think then of adding global function key handlers?

Not a bad idea. How do you specify them (i.e. if not via a display 
refinement then where/how)?

It would make it easier for me each time I have to merge my sources 
with yours ;-)

well, I just have these functions f1-handler: does []

and just redefine them when I need to use them.

ie. stubs

f10 is inaccessible though

it appears to be trapped by windows

So they reside in the global name space, or do you define them within 
ctx-rebgui?

global name space

but one could put them into ctx-rebgui

F1 - F12? Do you have a sample of the code you've had to add back?

I just had this

in process-keystroke

			#" " [
				;	do button action on SPC
				if all [view*/focal-face view*/focal-face/type = 'button][
					view*/focal-face/action view*/focal-face
				]
			]
			
			;; GC function key handlers
			f1 [f1-handler]
			f2 [f2-handler]
			f3 [f3-handler]
			f4 [f4-handler]
			f5 [f5-handler]
			f6 [f6-handler]
			f7 [f7-handler]
			f8 [f8-handler]
			f9 [f9-handler]
			f10 [f10-handler]
			f11 [f11-handler]
			f12 [f12-handler]

BTW, in chat.r, in a multi line text message, the blue divider cuts 
across the first line of text

It fixes when you risize

resize

If there is a lot of text, it won't display all the text in a message

It preserves the formatting of the original size and needs to reflow 
the text

Got it. I've been thinking that the following accessors would probably 
cover most usage cases:

	add-message
	add-message/top
	delete-message
	delete-message/top
	set-user-color
	set-message-color
	redraw

edit-message ??

sometimes one has to do these things !!

Do you mean change-message (i.e. replace message 24 of 50 with the 
following ...)

yes

So a 'set-message-text accessor?

yes

http://www.compkarori.com/reb/chatlo.png

this is my rebgui interface to the rebelBB.cgi script

if you resize, and the messages don't fill the screen, the offset 
needs to be reset to 0

for the main pane .. otherwise, the messages start mid screen.

vertically

Does the data structure meet your needs? Note that, like AltME, if 
the date is today then the time component is shown instead. You can 
insert abbreviated date/time's with:

	to date! reform [now/date now/time]

I think it's nice to have an addition column for a message id.

Otherwise , if you try and refer to a particular message .. you can't.. 
except by pointing to a datestamp which may be different depending 
upon which time zone you're in.

Preceeding the User column?

Yes.

I think with Altme, each message is followed by a font block etc.

so, each colum of data is then followed by a block that specifies 
the font, background etc.

Which might be a bit of overkill ...

In my chat client, I use Allen's parser to create active links for 
http/s ftp etc.

Allen and Gabriele's

Is it safe to assume that messages will always be in ascending age 
order? i.e. Do we need to cater for message insertion at top? Or 
message numbers that are in descending order? I want to avoid having 
sortable columns. Simple but functional is good.

Allen and Gabriele's
 ... rebol.org link?

http://www.compkarori.com/reb/download-manager.r