World: r4wp

Carl just posted a new blog entry at http://www.rebol.com/article/0527.html

I've got a preliminary Red binding and dialect working for GTK+:
http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK/dir?ci=tip

Hello World is:

#include %GTK.red

view ["Hello, Red GTK+ world!"]

As comparison, for Red/System it's:

#include %GTK.reds

with gtk [view label "Hello, Red/System GTK+ world!"]

You can also give a window title like in R2:

view/title ["Hello, Red GTK+ world!"] "Title"

More or less like in R2, the default window title is the program 
name

There are so many things to get excited about all the time these 
days!

Once rebol went open source and decided it's time to return to rebol, 
it was rather frustrating for me to find resources about rebol. I'd 
like to create such a page for other people's convenience. Should 
it be reboler.com or rebolista.com or anything else? The page will 
be a compilation of resources that will help newcomers get an idea 
of what rebol is all about and how to get started, such as: where 
to get the latest news, relevant contributors, blogs, important libraries, 
etc. I'd like to register the domain tonight and have the page ready 
in a couple of weeks. Not a big deal - just a quick reference at 
least for myself. Please suggest name and stuff to put on the page. 
Congrats to the community for sticking to rebol thru the quiet times 
- I did not.

Floring, we are already full of this kind of pages: 
http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.rebol.com/docs.html
I suggest you to contribute to the REBOL Wiki.

However, if you prefer doing something else you are always welcome.

GiuseppeC: Thanks. I will consider all the available resources. I 
have little time available. Most rebol related resources seem dated 
though.

Please chat in the Ann-Reply channel

Hello, now http://rebol.informe.com/portal.htmlworks weel, I''m 
including all Rebol wiki around the web in it. So with just one account, 
you can:
- improve wiki
-discuss of rebol on forum
- upload images on Gallery
-... and much more
Take a look and try...

Kaj :-) My mistake

Kaj :-) My mistake

New Android release:

URL		: http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/

Direct URL	: http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/r3-droid.apk

Changes:
-added DH and AES 128/256 encryption
-rewritten console syncing code
-TLS scheme improvements
-fixed runtime stack size issue
-fixed FP math using dtoa()  (thanks to Ladislav!)
-fixed shared lib unloading issue
-fixed "exit on script error" bug
-minor app handling tweaks

Please give it a try and have fun.

Thank you Robert!

I made simple implementations of REDUCE and COMPOSE for Red, as announced 
at the DevCon:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-common/dir?ci=tip

There's no do/next yet, so REDUCE reduces single values instead of 
complete expressions

Hello, now on http://rebol.informe.comthere is a wiki containing 
Rebol 2 and Rebol 3 (GitHub) wikis. You are welcome to contribute! 
If you are curious on  in the forum you'll find the scripts to upload 
automatically all words descriptions in a wiki.

I wrote a simple text editor in the Red GUI dialect:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

Red []

#include %common/input-output.red
#include %GTK/GTK.red

load-file: function [
	field		[integer!]  ; "widget!"
	area		[integer!]  ; "widget!"
	return:		[logic!]
][
	all [
		link: get-field-text field
		not empty? link
		data: read link
		set-area-text area data
	]
]
view/title [
	"File/URL:" line: field "" [load-file face text]
	button "Load" [load-file line text]
	button "Save" [
		all [
			link: get-field-text line
			not empty? link
			data: get-area-text text
			write link data
		]
	]
	text: area
	button "Quit" close
] "Red GTK+ Text Editor"

In the line field, you can enter either a local file name or a URL, 
so the editor can be used both on local files and files on remote 
servers

This is really cool.  I wanna play!

I extended the Red text editor to support a program argument, for 
loading a text source from the command line:

Red []

#include %common/input-output.red
#include %GTK/GTK.red

link: argument 1

load-file: function [
	field		[integer!]  ; "widget!"
	area		[integer!]  ; "widget!"
	return:		[logic!]
][
	all [
		link: get-field-text field
		not empty? link
		data: read link
		set-area-text area data
	]
]
view/title compose [
	"File/URL:" line: field (any [link ""]) [load-file face text]
	button "Load" [load-file line text]
	button "Save" [
		all [
			link: get-field-text line
			not empty? link
			data: get-area-text text
			write link data
		]
	]
	text: area (any [
		all [
			link
			not empty? link
			read link
		]
		""
	])
	button "Quit" close
] "Red GTK+ Text Editor"

With Doc's latest Red fixes, I was able to write a very simple IDE 
in the GUI dialect:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK/dir?ci=tip&name=examples


You can write either regular Red code or GUI dialect code, and execute 
it with respectively the Do or View button. Do executes the code 
in the interpreter, so no compilation is needed, but the current 
limitations of the interpreter apply.


The code is only 25 lines, but at Brian's request, I'll post that 
in the #Red channel.

It's best to start it from a command line to get any diagnostic output

I added seven Red GTK+ examples to the test builds, including the 
new text editor and simple IDE, so you can try them out right away.

The sources are here:
http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

The binary programs are here:
http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


*/Red/console-pro now includes the GTK binding, so you can make GUIs 
interactively right from the Red interpreter console.

Further, HBOX and VBOX styles are now available for layouting.

I've moved the support libraries for Windows from the MSDOS/RedSystem/ 
folder to the MSDOS/Red/ folder, so the Red examples can be run right 
away.


Of course, this means that the libraries now need to be added to 
the Red/System examples before starting them.

I've reconsidered removing the Windows libraries from the MSDOS/RedSystem/ 
folder. It occurred to me that Fossil identifies files by their hash 
value, so it should be able to detect identical files and store them 
only once. It turns out it does, so I have now actually also added 
the Windows libraries to the Windows/Red/ and Windows/RedSystem/ 
folders, without using extra space in the database or over the network.


All varieties of all Windows examples can now be started right away.

That's helpful - it took me a little looking to find and download 
all the libs.  I doubt there are too many people outside our small 
group who would put in the effort.

They've all been in that one test repository for some time

I wrote a Red binding on top of the Red/System binding for 0MQ:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-ZeroMQ-binding/dir?ci=tip


I also wrote Red versions of the client/server request/reply example:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-ZeroMQ-binding/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

Red has no binary! type yet, so it's limited to text messages for 
now

The Red example is shorter and simpler, at the expense of more message 
copying, which needs to be done in Red, anyway

I can also send messages between the Red and Red/System versions 
of the programs

Remember that I already made 0MQ bindings for R3 and R2, so you can 
also have Red communicate with those, or many other languages

I added the new Red examples for 0MQ to the test repository with 
ready builds, so you can try them without compiling:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


I enhanced the Red versions with support for a program parameter 
giving the network URL, so you can adapt it to your environment and 
try different transport protocols.

I implemented the 0MQ ventilator example for Red, in which the push/pull 
pattern is used to distribute tasks over an arbitrary number of worker 
processes, then afterwards collect the results by a sink process:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-ZeroMQ-binding/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

For the ventilator example, I implemented simple versions of to-integer, 
ASK, now/precise and subtract-time:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-C-library/dir?ci=tip

I added binaries for the 0MQ ventilator example to the test repository, 
so you can try it right away:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


Like the client/server example, you can give program parameters to 
change the network URLs.

Rebol3 is dead, long live to Rebol3Bazaar


I've been quiet for a long while, and this blog is not easy for me 
to write.

I'm sitting here with a glass of 2013 Ferrarelle mineral water of 
the glass bottle... hoping to be inspired on how to write this...
No, bad introduction...

You know that Rebol is a fantastic programming language, but its 
development was discontinued and bad supported. A lot of people when 
encounter Rebol falls in love for its simplicity, a blend of theory, 
experimentation, and invention, the language embodies elegant and 
wonderful concepts and properties. It was and is the most productive 
language I've ever used. I hope your experience has been similar.


Unfortunately a lot of bad events are leading Rebol to a no through 
road:

- no direction of the new Rebol3
- no a central site open for discussion
- no updates on Rebol 3 source (well, just one every month)
- to many sites about Rebol and with no updates from years


These and other reasons forced me to create http://rebol.informe.com/portal.html
a public forum, with a public wiki and a blog, where everybody can 
contribute. The result is just 17 users, this means that Rebol is 
dying; the cathedral way of Rebol 3  development is not working.

So I'm forced by my love for Rebol to create a new GitHub repository: 
Rebol 3 Bazaar, it's a Rebol 3 source, with graphic working (VID, 
but just on windows at the moment); I promise you:


- pull requests and issues discussed and merged in 24 hours (or max 
a week)
- open to add people to its organiziation
- always update!
- link:  https://github.com/angerangel/r3bazaar


If you like to contribute write me, use GitHub or Rebol portal; you 
don't need to be a programmer, think about a new logo, contribute 
the wiki.

If you know REBOLers who might be interested in this discussion, 
please let them know about this blog posting. I look forward to hearing 
from you,
-Max

I committed new test-suite enhancements. You can perform LOG-DIFF 
now to compare test results of different interpreters, e.g. See the 
comparisons in the "Testing and Tools" group.

With Doc's latest #include path fixes (issue #385), I could make 
the Red bindings independent from my system configuration. You can 
now use them without changing the source code.

I wrote an example of a browser for Internet sites written in Red. 
The source code is here:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK/doc/trunk/examples/GTK-browser.red


The usage model is like a web browser. You point it to network or 
local file links, in an address bar or as a command line parameter, 
and it displays them in the same content area in one window. A Red 
page can contain links that make the browser go to another page.


You can create and roll out Red sites just like websites. We are 
hosting the first Redsite here:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/index.red

I added binaries for the Red browser example to the test repository, 
so you can try it right away, in */Red/GTK-browser:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


The latest Red interpreter enhancements are also in the build run. 
In the console, GTK-IDE and GTK-browser, path accessors can now be 
used.