World: r3wp

Carl states in the blog, that he is considering to use it for developer's 
discussions, and I don't agree to that, unless I can see, that the 
plan is really well though out. It will not be forum, it will be 
still worse than altme, it will not be searchable, etc.

If we state that it is some kind of typical communication test-bed, 
then I am ok with it. But then it belongs to trashcan.

then = after it fulfills its testing purposes

So, we still lack a forum for the new users

Carl is seeking a solution to HIS communication needs. Not the USERS' 
communication needs. It seems to be a common pattern: That he starts 
developing something himself, because his needs are misunderstood.

I would not call it trashcan, but "how to" category

Henrik - wake me up, when after 3 months or half a year we found 
ourselves with another unfinished system, semi functional ...

Bye, Pekr. :-)

O r you don't want to see how to make simple server/client in R3/

Pekr, BTW, my server is running again, in case you missed it.

People spend years writing highly functional BBSs for communications

There you can see the container style in action.

Oldes - OK, you might be correct - for the andvanced users. As a 
"how to" 10KB of code might be too large :-)

The whole idea is confused and misplaced

Henrik - I am at home for 1 hours, being away in Prague - our company 
is running tender for the new website ...

Pekr, ok

If it's a test bed ... then don't call it a developers forum.

We talk too much even without BBS:) I'm rather going into a cave;-)

If it's a developer's forum ... it's grossly underpowered

If someone is going to spend weeks on improving it .. seems misplaced 
effort.

Henrik - somehow some screenshots show GUI being a bit distracting, 
not nicely placed elements ...

Pekr, alignment comes later

which one shows container?

It's everywhere. :-)

but fields and lists in particular use them.

is there also going to be an r3 release today as well or is the forum 
reblet all we're going to get?

the forum reblet needs r3

http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/Advanced-Electron-Forum%2BBeehive-Forum%2BdnfBB%2BE-Blah%2BJForum%2BmvnForum%2BmwForum%2BMyBB%2BNextBBS%2BPhorum%2BSMF%2BUnclassified-NewsBoard%2BVanilla%2BViscacha%2BXMB

and?

myBB looks good

Syntax highlighting must be done with a plugin

AdrianS, the forum reblet requires the latest R3 release.

(internal release, that is)

I understand - from Carl's posting yesterday, it seemed he was talking 
about releasing a newer alpha in 'a few hours'

so I was asking if this is still going to happen

One rule to learn is never to trust time tables from Carl.

s

sorry

I was sooo sure there would be alpha tonight ... the new moon was 
in an equilateral triangle with Jupiter and Venus at sunset here 
in Minnesota ..

working a bit on date styles.

view [year-calendar 2008]

gives: http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/r3/gui/153.png

Looks good.. and the sliders from Carl's blog as well.

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/r3/gui/007.mov<-- older video of 
slider styles here. same area as shown in the blog.

Looks good Henrik.  I don't care much for the  orange.  Maybe a yellow 
would be nicer.  So square-ish - maybe round the corners on the month 
panes.

Paul, yes, colors are experimental right now and definitely not final. 
rounded corners are a little harder to do.

Yeah I figured the round stuff would be more difficult.

Will it be possible to use bitmaps as in R2? For example extend effect 
was very useful. I really don't think, that we must draw everything.

I haven't used effects at all yet, but I think it's possible.

Should new development initatives that require GUI be done in R2 
or should one wait for R3? What would the porting excercise be like 
if I were to start with R2?

Slider is really nice, but quite honestly - how often, if ever, do 
you use slider in your app to represent data? I would welcome more 
practical styles as tabs, tree-view, list-view (grid)

As for date field, it is imo ugly - the whole skin is starting to 
look like old grey unix, weighting of fonts is overloaded for smaller 
buttons and labels ....