World: r3wp

Is unicode support finished?

it's implemented, although there are still compatibility bugs left 
some places.

unicode has changed many things on a basic level. this affects some 
mezzanines which need to be fixed.

I figured unicode support would be very complex, but I think now 
that it was even more complex than I thought. It will be very helpful 
to me. Thanks for the info, Henrik!

I am not aware of any bugs in the mezzanines relative to Unicode, 
but there are a few in the natives. Overall the code could use a 
conceptual audit for Unicode compatibility, though a great deal of 
this has been done already.

If anyone else knows of specific bugs in the mezzanines that relate 
to Unicode, please bring them up here or in the applicable forums.

BrianH, well I guess I counted indirect changes in. If you look at 
the latest bugs, some mezzanines still expect non-binary input for 
WRITE and non-binary output for READ.

I'll check. Thanks for the heads-up.

That bug can't be fixed without the string-to-binary encoding and 
decoding infrastructure being there. Those native functions don't 
exist yet because their design is not finalized.

For that matter, I recall that there was some talk of changing the 
SAVE and LOAD functions completely. It is an unresolved design issue, 
unless Carl's current work includes string encoding and decoding 
as well.

So to answer Louis' question: Not yet, as far as we know. The data 
structures for Unicode strings are there, as are UTF-8 word! values, 
but binary encoding and decoding is not yet there, and there are 
some limts to Unicode input and output (mostly due to the Windows 
console). The encoding/decoding work seems likely to get done as 
a part of Carl's GUI work, as that will probably include text display. 
The console IO limits are likely to remain until the written-in-REBOL 
GUI console is adopted.

This is all an informed guess though :(

Thanks, Brian.

Carl "A PANEL is a group of FACES, each of which are of a STYLE" 
= Vid3.4

Carl "Yes, this week I'll begin writing a lot more about the concepts, 
and provide examples, screenshots, and a diagram or two."

Carl "Yes, I have had the GUI running for some time..."

this week I'll begin writing a lot more about the concepts...
, which means it'll probably be ready in a couple of months. :-)

A little funny for those familiar with Jesse's diets : )

henrik T____________________________T (/cry)

so any news regarding the announced specs ?

nope

but does a panel be transparent  ?

VID  new name suggestion of the day by shadwolf VooDoo ( Visual object 
oooooh Display objects oooooooh )

we have no such details yet

still  no news from rebol3  so i propose you this work of mine to 
entertain you ^^ http://shadwolf.free.fr/RTE-line-Shad-03.r

enjoy folks  (more to come later that's only a 2 day work yes lot 
more things are to be done what  works the keyboard arrow left and 
right the backspace )

and ofcourse formated text insertion

(side note don't look the source code it's ugly ....)

it's very slow!

the right arrow won't go past the last character

slow ?

on my Crey C-90 that's smoothy :P

yes, the typing.

also, if you use the arrow left you can't type again at the end.

ouai  that's a little bug but hum I don't see it slow  really ....

this is on my IBM AT 286

...... 286 OMG !!! that's a museum piece ...

on my AMD X2 3.8 GHz that's smooth really

I think it's because you're dumping everything to the console

Jk .. I have core duo laptop

and it's very slow.

hum ....  that's strange i don't have it slow at all

using reb/view 2.7

even with all the consol traps

well anyway that's to make people dream show that the impossible 
is possible  and enhance my skills too  ^^

http://screencast.com/t/eyB2Pmfmv

quick video of my experience for you :)

yes ... that's SLOW  ... and on my computer that's not so slow ...

you have the spanish dancing windows ? (VISTA ?)

sorry for spannish noone deserves to be compared to VISTA ...