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Uploaded build#103 with new request-value function.

USAGE:

    REQUEST-VALUE prompt /title text /default value /type datatype

DESCRIPTION:
     Requests a value.
     REQUEST-VALUE is a function value.

ARGUMENTS:
     prompt -- Prompt text (Type: string)

REFINEMENTS:
     /title
         text -- Title text (Type: string)
     /default
         value -- Default value (Type: any-type)
     /type
         datatype -- Return type (Type: datatype)

Whoa! again.  Cool.   Just tested 102;
Just tested 103;  Nice!

:)

Ashley, this is to express my thanks for rebgui. It is wonderful, 
and a *huge* relief from VID. I spent the week developing a GUI for 
a pet project of mine. Great documentation. Great demo. Great syntax. 
Pure enjoyment!!!

Robert - any other widgets with your branch of RebCode? E.g. tree-view?

Yes, we have a tree-view as well.

Spider graph.

Enhanced TABLE

ah, RebCode .... RebGUI :-)

sounds interesting .... tree-view is handy sometimes.

I want write a chat system. 

 RebGui provide me the client gui. Somebody knows a chat server with 
 history?
(synapse-chat server source code is not available)

Should there be an option for lists like table so that /redraw also 
sets the scroller back to the top?

A nice feature in altme is hyperlinks in chat. ( http://www.google.com
) 
Any way to get this feature en rebGui ?

I'm sort of waiting for R3 rich text support before tackling that. 
It can be done in R2, but it's not pretty.

But R2 is here and now. I am coping & hacking  color.rebol.r  plug-in 
("Volker Nitsch" ) to rebgui ...

color-rebol.r from edit-tools.r

how do i set the window color in code (not through requestor)?

display "" [
	area
	do [face/color: sky]
]

thanks

has the desire for table row-shading come up before? (My first day 
on ALTME - so bear with me if these conversations are somehow searchable...???)

Yes, and there is no such facility in RebGUI.

There is a grid but that needs work

Is "work" being done?

Robert emailed me his code, I just have to find some time to go through 
it and merge the grid-specific stuff.

fantastic.

I'm getting a really weird display error from an area where I try 
to set the face/text manually.. I'll try to paste the code to reproduce 
(RebGUI #101)

REBOL [
	title: "Weird error in area"
	Date: 04-Dec-2007
	File: %areaerror.r
	Author: "Johan Aires Rasten"
	Version: 0.1.0
]

do %rebgui.r


; Values of 25 or less doesn't produce the error, but larger ones 
do
max-info-lines: 26


display system/script/title [
	panel sky data [
		after 1
		button-size 30
		button "Status" [print-info "status"]
		button "Archive" [print-info "archive"]
		button "test" [
			loop 30 [print-info "status"]
			loop max-info-lines - 4 [print-info "archive"]
		] 
		button "crash!" [print 1 / 0]
	]

 info-area: "To see error: Press test button, then Status once" area 
 80x40 #HW options[info] data []
]

info-area-list: make list! []

print-info: make function! [
	info
][
;	Add the line to the buffer
	append info-area-list rejoin [info "^/"]
	if max-info-lines < length? head info-area-list [
		remove head info-area-list
	]

; set-text works, but it moves the scrolling area to the top
;	set-text info-area rejoin make block! head info-area-list

; This produces weird errors:
	info-area/text: rejoin make block! head info-area-list
	show info-area
]

do-events

Replace:


 info-area: "To see error: Press test button, then Status once" area

with:


 info-area: area "To see error: Press test button, then Status once"

Ah.. didn't solve my problem though :\

Also, replace:

	info-area/text: rejoin make block! head info-area-list

with:

	info-area/text: form rejoin make block! head info-area-list

The text still becomes mangled when I press the status button

Forget my two previous suggestions and try adding the following line:

	info-area/text: rejoin make block! head info-area-list
	info-area/line-list: none	; line to add
	show info-area

Ashley ~

in your RebGui tour under Configure UI, Behavior you have a tabbable 
field - among the widgets in there is drop-list. The Grouping tab 
cintains drop-lists among other widgets, yet I cannot tab to them... 
What am I missing?

Good spot, edit-list is tabbable drop-list is not.

Hmm - I always strive to mave my UIs navigable by keyboard for speed 
and this necessitates use of  the rodent - any way to give tabbability 
here too?

It's a problem as tabbable and focus usually go hand-in-hand. Button 
had the same issue, and required quite a bit of hacking to get it 
working. Other non-focusable widgets have the same issue (e.g. check 
and radio-group). Keyboard navigation has been an issue for RebGUI 
(and VID) for quite some time ... just ask Pekr ;)

iirc, Etienne's skin system was fully keyboard navigable.  I think 
it still resides on the (now defunct?) IOS Developer...

How can I change a button's click action?

display "Test" [
	b: button [print "A"]
	button [
		b/action/on-click: make function! [face] [print "B"]
	]
]

Thanks Ashley!

How does attribute eval work for the data blocks of widgets like 
drop-list? Tried a few variations but none worked for me...

v: "Initial"
d: [a b c]

display "Test" [
	drop-list v data d
	return
	area
]

I see - thanks

Ashley, what's this free-form BUTTON keyword inside a display block? 
Never saw this.

Huh? button is a widget, it's been around for a long time ;)

I believe he's referring to the second time button is called to change 
button b's action.

Oh, that. Assigning a new function to an action is also no big deal. 
I might turn some of these into cookbook entries though as what's 
obvious to me might not be to others ;)

I have taken a deep look at the GUI System available for Rebol I 
and my choice has gone to RebGUI. I have taken a look to to list 
VIEW project too and I have a request/proposal: why don't you merge 
the list view into RebGUI. It is really very powerful, much more 
the standrd lists available in RebolGUI. It woul be an huge improvement 
and we will have a GUI system on steroids for DB projects.

Dunno how far is Ashley with the merge of Robert's RebGUI stuff, 
but once it happens, RebGUI will get powerfull enough grid (although 
not so powerfull as list-view) ...