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Graham: 31-Dec-2005 | now, that was a news site ... blog etc... but after a 1000 days, not a single news entry except by myself. | |
Reichart: 1-Nov-2008 | Two things: = The subtle question = We have played with a lot of software, and ALL of them (that we have tried) have failed to produce a final product that works. Meaning, all players (WMplayer, WinAmp, VLC, etc.) do not allow skipping, and, again, keep in mind, this is using Windows tools to Rip, and then encode (usually two products have to be used ). I make this clear because I'm not questioning that this can be done correctly from Linux (or perhaps Mac even). So my question is really "[are you sure] from windows you can produce a 700m avi from a DVD that allows skipping [keyframes] on Windows?" Our search of forums tells us others have the same problem, and people eventually give up and go to linux. (Warning, rant ahead) :) = The law = First, we all have to recognize the laws are slightly different in each country. Part of what makes this confusing is that America tends to set the "tone" for the rest of the world (since it makes the most profitable media in the first place. Not the most media keep in mind, for example Iceland makes more books per person for example). And what makes this really confusing is that America has state and local laws, which can conflict but will still be overruled by federal law. Marijuana is a good example. Some states say YES, and the Feds say NO. So you are still committing a Fed crime if you use this stuff. However in the case of copyright, it is the other way around. Organizations say NO, and the Feds say YES! But the REAL trick here is that software that cracks DVDs is illegal, but having the resultant backup is not. How is that for confusing? Bottom line, there is a fair use act, which stands, but another law that makes getting that fair use to work for you that is illegal. I should probably blog this since I could not find a good example of this clear statement on the web. However, the best thing I could find was just the simple Wikipedia entry for the judge herself that both made the heavy blow, but also defended the other individual rights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Illston Personally, she symbolizes to me the scariest type of person in power. Which is, she became myopic and decided to just solve the one problem in front of her, as opposed to requiring that the issues be solved correctly higher up so that this small problem could be handled. In other words, she saw a leaking toilet, and ruled that the water should be cut off to the bathroom. Then turned around and said, but everyone has a "right" to use the bathroom. It is people like this that allow tyrants to gain power. (end of rant) | |
btiffin: 6-Jan-2009 | I want Joe the Plumber to be a home rebol. REBOL is one step away from allowing normal people access. This hit me when I was showing how easy REBOL was to a construction boss. How they could be masters of their own domain. They lit up like a christmas tree. A few days later a $10,000.00 entry caused one of their little scripts to fail. The lights went out, and instead of embracing becoming a home business script writer, they felt stupid, and when I tried to reexplain the use of tick versus comma, they just got pissed off and will never be budding REBOL home users. All of us here could handle 001101010110110110110110010101 and eventually get the machine to do what we want. I'm aiming to open our favourite little engine so grandma could use it to write grocery lists and then little VID charts etc, etc. If we keep that to ourselves, well, IMHO, REBOL will wallow in the usage numbers counted in hundreds not millions as I believe it could. I could be wrong, but REBOL is too close to being usable by non-programmers to let this slip by without at least griping once every 2 months or so. :) In my little warped world, the REBOL console could be the home users "application framework". Every inch closer to common text usage could add an untold number of people by making them feel enabled. Less geek, more people. Again, I'll admit, I could be wrong; maybe the art of scripting will always be for nerds. | |
Maxim: 28-Mar-2009 | doc, its faster to let rebol do what is does best in binary and let us take over on those tokens it can't recognise. just ignoring comma would have allowed me use scientific data more than once directly without having to dare understand parse intricacies. remember that parse IS NOT EASY. I didn't use it for over 6 years, cause everytime I dared, it just blew up in my face. this would provide a simple entry point for more people to support DSL and leverage the rich datatype system in rebol, without the need to be a guru level reboler. | |
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Louis: 14-Oct-2006 | Ladislav wrote: "you probably don't know when you need to take care." You are right, but I am going to have to learn. I have written a double-entry fund accounting program which we are using for our non-profit organization for several years. I have just modified it to convert rupiahs to dollars. But it also has to be able to convert the dollars back to rupiahs properly. Are there any documents I might read to educate myself? | |
Anton: 20-Oct-2006 | Jerry, if you're not aware, just a word of caution about line by line entry in the console; the console will attempt to mold the result. That means rebol will use at least the same amount of memory again just to create the molded string. | |
Robert: 1-Jan-2007 | Question: I have a block that represents several records (fixed size number of fields). Now I need to extend each record by one column. Inserting a new entry every X entries in the block. IIRC there is a special function to deal with fixed size blocks for such thing. Like remove-each but more generic. | |
Bo: 20-Jan-2007 | I have an interesting problem with FTP. I'm using FileZilla on my server and I get the following entry in the log file: | |
btiffin: 12-May-2007 | Yep. You could sort, find first, find last and copy the range? But that introduces sort... There is a blog entry about hash! but we have to wait till R3. RSN. Yeah, there was some high-level optimizing going on for that res-ids little beauty. :) | |
Anton: 20-May-2007 | Your 2 million entry index, with each index value of 3 bytes, should theoretically take 5.7 MB. Do you really need to reduce that with compaction ? | |
Maxim: 1-Jun-2007 | again, I know most patterns CAN be described using parse, but in many occasions, what could have been a simple parens with a decision and 2 or 3 very simple rules, ended up being a complex tree of tens or more rules, which have non obvious interdenpendencies and things like left entry recursions (I hope I make sense here) which are, well, slow(er) and hard to map in one's mind. | |
Henrik: 16-Jun-2007 | and the function helps me to find out whether certain conditions for a database entry is true or false | |
ICarii: 23-Jun-2007 | wikibooks entry updated: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming/Programming_in_REBOL#Copy_vs_Copy.2Fdeep | |
PatrickP61: 19-Sep-2007 | While doing a google search on "Rebol AS400" I came across this entry dated Nov 19th 1999: One of the best aspects of REBOL is that it is supported on over 35 platforms, with support for 50 or more platforms expected by the end of the year. One of those platforms, fortunately, is the AS/400...With the strength of REBOL’s cross-platform support, REBOL scripts will run exactly the same way on the AS/400 as they do on any other platform, so you can start REBOL programming before the final release of the AS/400 version... --Chuck Lundgren I work on an AS/400 and would like to get more info on this ability. Anyone know of any updated info for Rebol and AS/400? | |
[unknown: 5]: 17-Feb-2008 | Anyone know of a bug in REBOL where the word "end" shows up in a list! of values? I have got this weird problem where the word "end" shows up in what should be a list! block of nothing but integers but instead I have integers and a few references of the word "end" without the string as it is not a string datatype. If I do a foreach and attempt to step through each item it crashes on that entry. I can't determine what datatype it is. I looked at my code and nothing in my code or the data it handles contains the word "end". | |
btiffin: 5-Mar-2008 | How transient are the blocks? REBOL seems to do a fair job of not over allocating. a: copy [] a: copy [] will only change the count by an entry, not two. a: copy [] insert/only a copy [] should change select stats/types 'block! by two or so. afaik | |
RobertS: 1-Apr-2008 | Diss'ing IDE's might alienate some Smalltalk folk. I cannot imagine maintaining an application suite such as I deal with everyday without an IDE. I just wish it was not eclipse ... Of course only wimps used a Disk Operating System and real men code in machine codes only ... and real pro's dictated their SNOBOL punch cards to lovely assistants ... and ANT scripts are for sissies. Some must have ridiculed Tcl, Expect and TK in their day ... but if my IDE can facilitate my efforts to systematically (key word there) shrirnk company''s codebase as it becomes more reliable with better test coverage then maybe a refactoring browser would be a good tool after all. Even better if it is an integrated part of the IDE, as in Dolphin Smalltalk or Squeak Smalltalk or Smalltalk/X or Cincom Visual Smalltalk. Not that I couldn't survive on grep and diff's. But once the codebase is too large for any one person to author or maintain on their lonesome, a tool that remebers what you did last and where can be a god-send. If you want to know hell without an IDE join an actuarial department working in APL. There you don't even know if they have talent: you just hope most of it works as each quarter rolls around and try to survive year-end. But you know they're smart, cuz after all, they're actuaries - and look at all that APL code in all those files ... of course a few of them look back wistfully at their student days in C with Borland's decent IDE. REBOL [ File: %vid-usage.r Date: 09-Jan-2004 Title: "VID Usage" Purpose: "VID Usage Tutorial with Runnable Examples" Version: 1.2.1 Author: "Cybarite" Edits: RobertS Source: { Based on %easy-vid.r by Carl Sassenrath. Clips from various sites including email that are attributed in the section } library: [ level: 'intermediate platform: 'all type: [tutorial] domain: [gui] tested-under: [view 1.2.8.3.1 on W2K] support: none license: none see-also: none ] ] flash "Fetching image..." read-thru/to http://www.rebol.com/view/demos/palms.jpg%palms.jpg read-thru/to http://www.rebol.com/graphics/reb-logo.gif%rebo-logo.gif read-thru/to http://www.rebol.com/view/bay.jpg%bay.jpg pic: %palms.jpg unview customer: make object! [ ; this sets a default customer object in case the user does not push the samples in order name: "Rosetta Stone" date-of-birth: 14-March-1959 ] stylize/master [text-note: txt maroon bold] ; this sets a default for users who run the samples out of order ; polished is an image that is embedded in this script file ; so that no outside files need to be loaded. ; This technique is used in many of the REBOL samples polished: load #{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} content: {VID Usage - REBOL Visual Interfaces ===Updates --01-Apr-2008 * Fixed oddity with last item on stylesheets which was locking up some versions of VIEW ---09-Jan-2004 * Fixed slider initialize. * Focus section was not parsed out. --- fixed * Fixed some text errors for the parsing of === ---07-Jan-2004 * Revived vid-usage.r * added more examples from the script library * manage source as vid-usage.leo an outliner file ---12-August-2001 Added supply examples. See: !List/Supply !List With Supplied Data !Supply List With Scroll ---13-August-2001 !Add Subpanel example ported by Anton ===Caveats ---Work In Progress This is a work in progress. Whether the progress will continue depends on the feedback. ---All Rights Reserved The work is based on the documentation of REBOL View provided by REBOL Technology and its mailing list. All rights to this documentation remain the property of REBOL Technology. ---Plagiarized Examples Things are shamelessly plagiarized. There are many experts on the mailing list whose work is included here; most notably the examples from the REBOL documentation. ---Approach The approach that this document uses is to use REBOL/View/VID to demonstrate its abilities and give a visual tutorial. To enable this some changes have been made to the core %easyvid.r program from Carl Sassenrath. A scoll bar was added to the right pane because it was just too difficult to constrain the examples to the screen real estate that was available. ---Order Order The order of the items needs some work. The easyvid presentation approach today does not allow for the drilling down and expansion of an outline tree which is needed for a large amount of documentation. The preferred approach is to put a multi-level tree for navigation purposes and then allow navigation up and down the tree. ===To Do * make this a true outline tree * re-organize it better * update as requested and as possible by suggestions on AltME's REBOL world under group EasyVID * correct numerous flaws * better scrolling implementation using the updates that have been used in other examples such as Didier's %delete-email.r * allow clipping to clipboard like AltME does on a row for the source examples ===Introduction to VID With REBOL/View it's easy and quick to create your own user interfaces. The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you the basic concepts or REBOL/View interfaces in about 20 minutes. VID is REBOL's Visual Interface Dialect. A dialect is an extension of the REBOL language that makes it easier to express or describe information, actions, or interfaces. VID is a dialect that provides a powerful method of describing user interfaces. VID is simple to learn and provides a smooth learning curve from basic user interfaces to sophisticated distributed computing applications. ---Creating VID Interfaces VID interfaces are written in plain text. You can use any text editor to create and edit your VID script. Save your script as a text file, and run it with REBOL/View. !Note: Using a word processor like Word or Wordpad is not recommended because files are not normally saved as text. If you use a word processor, be sure to save the output file as text, not as a document (.doc) file. Recommendation: Look at TextPad from http://www.textpad.com ===Minimal VID Example Here is a minimal VID example. It creates a window that displays a short text message. Only one line of code is required: view layout [text "Hello REBOL World!"] You can type this line at the REBOL console prompt, or save it in a text file and run it with REBOL. If you save it as a file, the script will also need a REBOL header. The header tells REBOL that the file contains a script. Here is an example of the script file with a header: REBOL [Title: "Example VID Script"] view layout [text "VID Example!"] You can also add buttons and other gadgets to the script. The example below displays a text, list of files, and a button: view layout [ h2 "File List:" text-list data read %. button "Great!" ] !Click on the examples above to see how they will appear on your screen. Click on their close box to remove them. All of the examples that follow can be viewed this way. ===Window Management The code that displays the examples also shows how to manage the number of windows that are open. Look at the show-example block in the code near the end of this script. The location of the example window is also managed here by keeping track of the co-ordinates for the sample. After the sample window is moved, the next use will open at the same location. ===Pre-loaded Images For this script, the image which represented a Portable Network Graphic definition of an image is held in the script and loaded. For a small number of graphics, this can achieve some packaging and performance benefits. The image "polished" is used through the script to achieve the polished steel look that is one the outer frame. backtile polished orange button 200x50 "Polished Steel Look" polished ===Two Basic Functions Two functions are used to create graphical user interfaces in REBOL: VIEW and LAYOUT. The LAYOUT function creates a set of graphical objects. These objects are called faces. You describe faces with words and values that are put into a block and passed to the LAYOUT function. The VIEW function displays faces that were previously created by LAYOUT. The example below shows how the result of the LAYOUT function is passed to the VIEW function, and the interface is displayed. view layout [ text "Layout passes its result to View for display." button "Ok" ] Click on the above example to view it. !Note: the block provided to a layout is not normal REBOL code, it is a dialect of REBOL. Using a dialect makes it much easier to express user interfaces. ===Styles Styles describe faces. The examples above use the text and button styles to specify a text line and a button. REBOL has 40 predefined face styles. You can also create your own custom styles. Here are a few example styles: view layout [ h1 "Style Examples" box brick 240x2 vtext bold "There are 40 styles built into REBOL." button "Great" toggle "Press" "Down" rotary "Click" "Several" "Times" choice "Choose" "Multiple" "Items" text-list 120x80 "this is" "a list" "of text" across check radio radio led arrow below field "Text Entry" ] The words like backdrop, banner, box, text, and button are styles. ===Facets Facets let you modify a style. For instance, you can change the color, size, text, font, image, edge, background, special effects, and many other facets of a style. Facets follow the style name. Here is an example that shows how you modify the text style to be bold and navy blue: view layout [txt bold navy "Facets are easy to use."] The words bold and navy are not styles. They are facets that modify a style. Facets can appear in any order so you don't have to remember which goes first. For example, the line above could be written as: view layout [txt "Facets are easy to use." navy bold] Many facets that can be specified. Here is an example that creates bold red text centered in a black box. view layout [txt 300 bold red black center "Red Text"] You can create facets that produce special effects, such as a gradient colored backdrop behind the text: view layout [ vtext bold "Wild Thing" effect [gradient 200.0.0 0.0.200] ] ===Custom Styles Custom styles are shortcuts that save time. When you define a custom style, the facets you need go into the new style. This reduces what you need to specify each time you use the style, and it allows you to modify the look of your interface by changing the style definitions. For example, here is a layout that defines a style for red buttons. The style word defines the new style, followed by the old style name and its facets. view layout [ style red-btn button red text "Testing red button style:" red-btn "Test" red-btn "Red" ] So, if you wanted to create a text style for big, bold, underlined, yellow, typewriter text: view layout [ style yell tt 220 bold underline yellow font-size 16 yell "Hello" yell "This is big old text." yell "Goodbye" ] ===Master Stylesheet REBOL holds its styles in a master stylesheet. When you are sure that you want to share them without having to add the style sheet line then do it as follows: First add the style to the master sheet: button 200x50 "Define text-note as maroon bold text" [stylize/master [ text-note: txt maroon bold ]] button 200x50 "Define text-note as white italic text" [stylize/master [ text-note: txt white italic ]] Then invoke it: view layout [ across size 200x200 return text-note "This shows a master stylesheet style in use." return text-note "This shows another usage of the same style." return text-note "If you want to see the other style displayed, click the Add Style section again and then use the other button" ] ===Note About Examples !From this point forward, all examples will assume that the view and layout functions are provided. Only the layout block contents will be shown. To use these examples in your scripts, you will need to put them in a layout block, as was shown earlier. For example, code that is written as: view layout [button red "Test it"] will now appear as: button red "Test it" ===Face Sizes The size of a face depends on its style. Most styles, such as buttons, toggles, boxes, checks, text-lists, and fields, have a convenient default size. Here are some examples. button "Button" toggle "Toggle" box blue field text-list If no size is given, text will automatically compute its size, and images will use whatever their source size is: text "Short text line" text "This is a much longer line of text than that above." image %palms.jpg You can change the size of any face by providing a size facet. The size can be an integer or a pair. An integer specifies the width of the face. A pair specifies both width and height. Images will be stretched to fit the size. button 200 "Big Button" button 200x100 "Huge Button" image %palms.jpg 50x50 image %palms.jpg 150x50 ===Color Facets Most styles have a default color. For example the body of buttons will default to a teal color. To modify the color of a face, provide a color facet: button blue "Blue Button" h2 red "Red Heading" image %palms.jpg orange Colors can also be specifed as tuples. Each tuple contains three numbers: the red, green, and blue components of the color. Each component can range from 0 to 255. For example: button 200.0.200 "Red + Blue = Magenta" 200 image %palms.jpg 0.200.200 "Green + Blue" Some face styles also allow more than one color. The effect of the color depends on the style. For text styles the first color will be used for the text and the second color for the background of the text: txt "Yellow on red background" yellow red banner "White on Navy Blue" white navy For other styles, the body of the face is the first color, and the second color will be used as its alternate. button "Multicolor" olive red toggle "Multicolor" blue orange ===Layout Commands To drop user interface elements on the canvas according to VIDs directional layout controls ---Across You are placing elements in a row orientation across return button "A" button "B" button "C" return button "D" button "E" button "F" ---Below You are placing elements in a column orientation below return button "A" button "B" button "C" return button "D" button "E" button "F" ---Mix You can mix the directional controls across return button "A" button "B" below button "C" across button "D" button "E" button "F" ---Padding The pad keyword creates extra padding between styles. It uses a pair or integer value. When it is an integer, spacing is created either horizontally (across) or vertically (below). When it is a pair, the spacing will be created both horizontal and vertically. The following example illustrates both uses. First, the buttons "one" and "two" are padded with an integer representing 40 pixels in one direction. Then the buttons "three" and "four" are padded with a pair representing 40x40 pixels. across button "one" pad 40 button "two" return button "three" pad 40x40 button "four" Padding can be negative. backtile polished orange pad 200x200 button "A" pad -100x-100 button "B" ---Guide A guide is a virtual alignment control title "Buttons Without A Guide" button "one" button "two" return button "three" button "four" return button" five" button "six" With an implicit guide location title "Buttons With An Implicit Guide Location" guide button "one" button "two" return button "three" button "four" return button" five" button "six" With an explicit guide location across title "Buttons With An Explicit Guide Location" guide 55x100 button "one" button "two" return button "three" button "four" return button" five" button "six" ===Tabstops Tabs can be used for alignment. ---Across tabs 200 ; sets tabs every 200 pixels across button 20 "A" tab button 20 "B" tab button 20 "C" tabs 100 ; sets tabs every 100 pixels return button 20 "D" tab button 20 "E" tab button 20 "F" ---Below tabs 200 ; sets tabs every 200 pixels below button 20 "A" tab button 20 "B" tab button 20 "C" tabs 100 ; sets tabs every 100 pixels return button 20 "D" tab button 20 "E" tab button 20 "F" ---Explicit Settings Tabstops can be set at explicit values tabs [100 124 166 212 300] across tab button 20 "A" tab button 20 "B" tab button 20 "C" tab button 20 "D" ===Color Facets Most styles have a default color. For example the body of buttons will default to a teal color. To modify the color of a face, provide a color facet: button 200 blue "Blue Button" h2 red "Red Heading" image polished orange Colors can also be specifed as tuples. Each tuple contains three numbers: the red, green, and blue components of the color. Each component can range from 0 to 255. For example: button 200.0.200 "Red + Blue = Magenta" 200 image polished 0.200.200 "Green + Blue" Some face styles also allow more than one color. The effect of the color depends on the style. For text styles the first color will be used for the text and the second color for the background of the text: txt "Yellow on red background" yellow red title "White on Navy Blue" white navy For other styles, the body of the face is the first color, and the second color will be used as its alternate. button 200 "Multicolor" olive red toggle 200 "Multicolor" blue orange From the mailing list, there was a problem reported in changing button color: view layout [ b: button "New color" [ b/color: random 255.255.255 show b ] ] And the answer was that the gradient of the color was preventing this change from working: style color-changing-button button 0.0.0 ; new style overwrites gradient effect b: color-changing-button "New color" [ b/color: random 255.255.255 show b ] ===Text Facets Most faces will accept text to be displayed. Even graphical faces can display text. For example, the box and image faces will display text if it is provided: box blue "Box Face" image polished "Image Face" Most button faces will accept more than one text string. The strings will be shown as alternates as the face is selected. button 200 "Up" "Down" toggle 200 "Off" "On" rotary 200 "Red" "Green" "Blue" "Yellow" choice 200 "Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday" "Friday" text-list 200 "Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thursday" "Friday" When other datatypes need to be displayed as text, use the form function to convert them first: button 250 form now field form first read %. ===Normal Text Style Normal text is light on dark and can include a number of facets to set the font, style, color, shadow, spacing, tabbing, and other attributes. text "Normal" text "Bold" bold text "Italic" italic text "Underline" underline text "Bold italic underline" bold italic underline text "Big" font-size 32 text "Serif style text" font-name font-serif text "Spaced text" font [space: 5x0] Text also includes these predefined styles: title "Title" 200 vh1 "vh1" vh2 "vh2" vh3 "vh3" vh4 "vh4" label "Label" ===Document Text Style Document text is dark on light and can also include a number of facets to set the font, style, color, shadow, spacing, tabbing, and other attributes. txt "Normal" txt "Bold" bold txt "Italic" italic txt "Underline" underline txt "Bold italic underline" bold italic underline txt "Big" font-size 32 txt "Serif style text" font-name font-serif txt "Spaced text" font [space: 5x0] Document text also includes these predefined styles: title "Centered title" 200 h1 "Heading 1" h2 "Heading 2" h3 "Heading 3" h4 "Heading 4" tt "Typewriter text" ===Text Entry Fields Text input fields accept text until the enter or tab key is pressed. A text input field can be created with: field To make the field larger or smaller, provide a width: field 30 field 300 Fields will scroll when necessary. Larger amounts of text can be entered in an area. Areas also accept an enter key and will break lines. area You can also specify the area size: area 160x200 To force the text in an area to wrap rather than scroll horizontally, provide the wrap option: area wrap ===Text Setting To set the value of a text field under program control, use /text: e.g. across backtile polished return t1: txt 200 "This is some original text" return f1: field 200 "Some field text" return a1: area {Some original area text.} wrap 200x80 return button 200 "Change Text" [ t1/text: "Some different text" f1/text: "Some new field text" a1/text: {Some wrapping text in the^/ area field to^/ show that this^/ is supported} show [t1 f1 a1] ] ===Text Lists Text lists are easy to create. Here is an example. text-list "Eureka" "Ukiah" "Mendocino" You can also provide it as a block: text-list data ["Eureka" "Ukiah" "Mendocino"] Almost any type of block can be provided. Here is a list of all the files in your current directory: text-list data read %. Here is a list of all the words REBOL has scanned: text-list data first system/words ===Scrolling Text List A style to allow maintenance of lists from Brett Handley on the REBOL list: style updatable-text-list text-list with [ update-slider: does [ sld/redrag lc / max 1 length? head lines ] ] tl: updatable-text-list 300x100 data copy system/locale/months button 300x20 "Delete first entry on the list" [ remove tl/data tl/update-slider show tl ] button 300x20 "Append the 'now' timestamp to list" [ append tl/data mold now tl/update-slider show tl ] ===Text List Picked Values list-of-letters: text-list "a" "b" "c" "d" "e" button 200 "Pick Item 3" [ clear list-of-letters/picked append list-of-letters/picked pick list-of-letters/data 3 show list-of-letters ] ===Images By default an image will be scaled to fit within a face. image 60x60 polished image polished red Images can be framed in a number of ways: image 100x100 polished frame blue 5x5 image 100x100 polished bevel image 100x100 polished ibevel 6x6 Most other faces can accept an image as well as text: box 100x100 polished button "Button" polished purple toggle "Toggle" polished blue red field bold "This is a field." polished effect [emboss tile] field bold "This is another field." polished effect [brighten 100] The image can be provided as a filename, URL, or image data. ===Backdrops A backdrop can be a color, an effect, an image, or a combination of the three. For example a backdrop color would be written as: backdrop navy title "Color Backdrop" gold To create a backdrop effect provide it on the line: backdrop effect [gradient 1x1 0.0.100 100.0.0] title "Gradient Backdrop" gold A backdrop image can be a file, URL, or image data: backdrop polished title "Image Backdrop" red The backdrop image can be colorized: size 400x500 backdrop polished blue title "Blue Image Backdrop" The image can include an effect: backdrop polished effect [fit gradcol 1x1 100.0.0 0.0.250] title "Gradient Image Backdrop" ===Backtile To make a backdrop use a tile effect there are two options: backdrop polished effect [tile] banner "This shows a backdrop with a tile effect" or backtile polished banner "This demonstrates backtile" Note the difference between: size 400x500 backdrop polished banner "Here one image is stretched to cover the canvas" and size 400x500 backtile polished banner "Here one image is repeated to cover the canvas" ===Effect Facets A range of effects are supported for faces. All of these effects are performed directly on the face when it is rendered. Here are examples of a few possible effects in top to bottom then left to right order: style polished-steel image 80x60 polished polished-steel effect [flip 1x1] polished-steel effect [rotate 90] polished-steel effect [reflect 1x1] polished-steel effect [crop 0x50 120x60 fit] polished-steel effect [grayscale] polished-steel effect [invert] polished-steel effect [difference 200.0.0] polished-steel effect [tint 80] return polished-steel effect [contrast 50] polished-steel effect [brighten 50] polished-steel effect [sharpen] polished-steel effect [blur] polished-steel effect [colorize 204.0.0] polished-steel effect [gradcol 1x1 150.0.0 0.0.150] polished-steel effect [gradmul 0x1 0.100.0] polished-steel effect [grayscale emboss] Effects can be used in combination to create other interesting results. However, keep in mind that the computations are performed in real time. If complex combinations are required, a temporary image should be created with the to-image function. ===Actions An action can be associated with almost any face. To do so, follow the face style with a block: button "Test" [alert "test"] The block is used as the body of a function that is passed the face and the current value (if the face has one). For example: toggle "Toggle" [alert form value] rotary "A" "B" "C" [alert form value] text "Click Here" [alert face/text] If a second block is provide, it is used for the alternate actions (right key): button "Click Here" [view/new layout [txt "action"]] [view/new layout [txt "alt-action"]] Use variables to modify the contents or state of other faces. For example, the slider will update the progress bar: slider 200x16 [p1/data: value show p1] p1: progress !More action on actions needed... ===Show After the state is changed for a user interface element, it must be re-drawn to be reflected on the user interface canvas. Accomplish this with the show message. backtile polished across toggle "Toggle State" [ cybernetics?/data: not cybernetics?/data show cybernetics?] return label "Are you interested in cybernetics?" cybernetics?: check One show command can be used for multiple user interface elements backtile polished orange across b1: check label "Red" return b2: check label "Green" return button 200 "Change State But No Refresh" [b1/data: not b1/data b2/data: not b2/data] return button "Show" [show [b1 b2]] ===Hide A user interface element can also be hidden. backtile polished orange across c1: check hide-button: button "Hide" [hide c1] return show-button: button "Show" [show [c1 d2]] The show-button action tries to show a user interface element 'd2' that does not exist. REBOL/View ignores these. ===Invisible Faces To make a button invisible when the view is opened, you can define an invisible button style This approach sets the show? value to false when the user interface element is initialized. across style invisible-button button with [append init [show?: false]] late-shower: invisible-button "I'm Here" return return button 200 "Show Invisible Button" [show late-shower] This works for the other visible user interface element. ===Focus A user interface element can programmatically be given the focus. across backtile polished button 200 "Set focus to Phone Field" [focus f2] return label "Name: " f1: field 100 return label "Phone: " f2: field 100 return button 200 "Remove focus from Phone Field" [unfocus f2] return button 200 "Hide the Phone Field" [hide f2] return ---Focus Defect !Note that the tab function shows a hidden field. I have assumed that this is a defect. If a field is hidden, the tab button should not make it visible. This has been previously sent to feedback. ===Radio Buttons A radio button is used to make a choice between mutually exclusive values. Your preferred programming language is REBOL or C++ or PL/1 or APL but it is only one of those. across backtile polished radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "REBOL" return radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "C++" return radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "PL/1" return radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "APL" return To mix two groups of radio buttons on one screen, associate them with their groups using the "of 'word". In the above, the grouping is 'programming-language. across backtile polished radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "Language: REBOL" return radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "Language: C++" return radio of 'editor pad 0x-4 label "Editor: TextPad" return radio of 'editor pad 0x-4 label "Editor: Notepad" return The padding in the above is needed to keep the label aligned with the radio button. across backtile polished orange radio of 'programming-language pad 0x-4 label "REBOL" return radio of 'programming-language label "APL" return ===Radio Button Settings A radio button is not very useful unless you can find out what its setting is and change that setting under program control. across backtile polished orange rebol-radio: radio of 'programming-language [programming-language: 'rebol] pad 0x-4 label "REBOL" return apl-radio: radio of 'programming-language [programming-language: 'apl] label "APL" return button 200 "Toggle radio button" [ apl-radio/data: not rebol-radio/data: not rebol-radio/data show [rebol-radio apl-radio] ] ===Check Box ---Purpose A check box is used to allow user interface choices where the choices are not mutually exclusive. across backtile polished orange c1: check label "Likes animals" return c2: check label "Like Monkees" return c3: check label "Like The Animals" ---State A check box is not much good if you can't get and set its state (on or off). across backtile polished orange c1: check label "Likes animals" return c2: check label "Like Monkees" return button "Set State" [ c1/data: true show c1 c2/data: false show c2 ] ===Sensor ---Purpose A sensor is an invisible user interface element. Using a sensor only makes sense in a few instances. If you want a keycode action where there is no visible user interface element to link the action to then a sensor can be used. This sensor code adds an Escape or Back or Enter action that will close the window. sensor 1x1 keycode [#"^M" #" " #"^(back)" #"^(ESC)"] [unview] Or if you want to make portions of an image 'hot' instead of putting buttons on top of the image, then a sensor will achieve this. across backtile polished orange txt "Click on the upper left section of the gray image to invoke the sensor action" return animage: image 100x100 polished ; here the image is just the polished area at animage/offset sensor 50x50 [alert "You pushed over the sensor"] ===Displaying Script Values If the script has a standard format headings, including custom ones, these can be used in the application by picking them from the system/script/header. backtile polished across banner "About" return text font-size 16 rejoin ["Title: " form system/script/header/title] return text font-size 16 rejoin ["Originator: " form system/script/header/author] return text font-size 16 rejoin ["Modifier: " form system/script/header/modifier] return text font-size 16 rejoin ["Version: " form system/script/header/version] return text font-size 16 rejoin ["Updated: " form system/script/header/date] return button "OK" [unview] ===Toggle A toggle button represents boolean state - either on or off. The button stays down until toggled again. Colors and text can be paired for "on" and "off" state. toggle "Up" "Down" red blue To set the state via program control, use: across backtile polished return t1: toggle "Up" "Down" red blue return button polished 204.0.0 100 "Toggle State" [ t1/state: not t1/state show t1 ] ===Rotary Buttons Rotary buttons are a different sort of user interface device. They can cause some challenges because the state is what's showing so you have to blindly "toggle" to get to a state that you want. But for quick and easy uses where the user is familiar with the options, they can be handy. If you plan to use them for a long list of items such as shown below, they might give you some usability concerns. ---Example across backtile polished rotary data ["First" "Second" "Third"] ---Setting State across backtile polished return r1: rotary data (my-options: ["First" "Second" "Third"]) return button 200 "Change Rotary State" [ r1/data: next r1/data if tail? r1/data [r1/data: head r1/data] show r1 ] ---Example - Usability For Unfamiliar List Contents The rotary button demonstrated here contains some information unfamiliar to most (Saturn's satellites). Use it to to set the state so that "Calypso" is set. Doable but without knowing the order each re-paint has to be checked to ensure that it is not "Calypso" before clicking again. If you do click past the choice that you want, there is no back function so you have to cycle through again. return rotary data [ "Pan" "Atlas" "Prometheus" "Pandora" "Epimetheus" "Janus" "Mimas" "Enceladus" "Tethys" "Telesto" "Calypso" "Dione" "Helene" "Rhea" "Titan" "Hyperion" "Iapetus" "Phoebe" ] ===Arrows REBOL/View supports arrows as simple user interface elements. Actions can be associated with them. ---Arrowheads And Actions By default, the arrow is 20x20 across size 200x100 backtile polished at 50x50 arrow left [alert "You pressed the left arrow"] [alert "You pushed the alternate button on the left arrow"] at 70x30 arrow up at 90x50 arrow right [alert "You pressed the right arrow"] at 70x70 arrow down ---Very Sharp Arrows And with a little work the arrows and boxes can be merged to look sharper. Here is a "sharp at both ends" arrow from the block diagram script by Carl: origin 0 backcolor white at 0x0 box 40x40 white effect [arrow rotate 270] at 110x0 box 40x40 white effect [arrow rotate 90] at 24x10 box black 100x20 ---Arrow Blend So that shows you how to make an arrow blend into your background size 100x100 across backdrop gray at 50x50 box 40x40 gray effect [arrow rotate 90] at 40x67 box 25x5 black ===LED LEDs would be used to display state (on or off). Clicking the LED toggles its state and changes its color. LEDs do not support alternate mouse button actions. across banner "Light Emitting Diode" return l1: led 10x10 [alert "LED left mouse action"] label "Alert status" l2: led 10x10 [alert "LED left mouse action"] label "Network status" return button "Change state" [ l1/data: not l1/data l2/data: not l2/data show [l1 l2] ] ===Box ---Boxing Draw boxes of any heigth and width with the box style box "Large Box" 200x400 polished orange ---Boxes As Lines If you make the box narrow enough or short enough it is a line (or a dot). across size 300x300 backtile polished at 50x0 box 3x100 gold at 0x50 b1: box 100x3 gold at 10x10 box 5x5 red ---Boxes Can Grow across size 300x300 backtile polished at 150x0 b1: box 100x3 gold return pad 0x100 button "Grow Down" [ for i 3 300 1 [ b1/size/y: 1 + b1/size/y wait 00:00:00.01 show b1 ] ] return pad 0x100 button "Back Up" [ for i 300 3 -1 [ b1/size/y: b1/size/y - 1 wait 00:00:00.01 show b1 ] ] You might even find a use for it. ---Grid Effect Not sure of the use for this yet but here is what you can do: return box "Grid Lock" with [effect: [grid 20x20 8x8 4x3]] white 300x200 return box "Grid Lock" with [effect: [grid 20x20 5x5 3x3]] white - 80 300x200 ===Frame Earlier versions of REBOL VID supported frames in layouts such as view layout [frame "This is the Bay" %bay.jpg] These are no longer valid. But frames can be put around some user interface devices: image 100x100 polished frame red ===List A list is an iterated sub layout and takes a layout block that uses the Visual Interface Dialect. The styles in the layout will be repeated until there is no more room to fit them within the list dimensions. ---Why A face can be iterated to create a number of virtual faces. For instance, when displaying a list of ten buttons, each of the buttons does not need to be created as a separate object. If the buttons only differ by a few facets (such as position, text, and action taken on selection), a model face can be created and iterated for its other position. This is useful when creating scrolling lists of files and other data sets that share the same appearance. ---Supply Supply provides the data to the list for an iterated face. do [cnt: 0 list-collection: [aqua sky water] ] backtile polished orange across list-displayed: list 100x72 [ origin 0 space 0x0 across color-field: txt bold 80x24 ] supply [ if none? one-color: pick list-collection count [exit] face/text: do pick [one-color] index ] return txt gold 180 "OK ... but not too useful" ---Supply Columns Maybe adding some more columns would be better. Here I'll add a column of buttons that display the color name and a column of text strings in italic. do [ cnt: 0 list-collection: [aqua sky water gold silver coffee] ] backtile polished orange across list-displayed: list 300x200 [ origin 0 space 0x0 across color-field: txt bold 80x24 color-button: button 80x24 pad 5x1 txt 100 italic ] supply [ if none? one-color: pick list-collection count [exit] face/text: do pick [ [one-color] [to-string one-color] [rejoin [" " to-string one-color]] ] index ] return txt gold 300 {A bit more interesting but the last row repeats to fill the list size. Some of the other VID components will automatically stretch to fit the size needed (such as this txt field) but the list does not behave that way. You have to make the list size fit its data or make it smaller and add a vertical scroll capability. That is shown a little later on.} ===List With Supplied Data This example is to show adding action to the list and adds a horizontal line between the rows. do [ cnt: 0 list-collection: [aqua sky water gold silver coffee] ] backtile polished orange across list-displayed: list water edge [size: 6x6 color: silver] 350x96 [ origin 0 space 0x0 across color-field: txt 60 [alert rejoin ["You pressed the " face/text " text field"]] pad 45x0 color-button: button 80 [alert rejoin ["You pressed the " face/text " button"]] pad 5x0 txt 120 italic return box 350x1 white ; this causes a horizontal line to appear between each row ] supply [ if none? one-color: pick list-collection count [exit] face/text: do pick [ [one-color] [to-string one-color] [rejoin [" " to-string one-color]] ] index ] ===Supply List With Scroll This example shows a supplied list with a scroll capability. More colors are added to demonstrate scrolling. Note that this is a verbose list of code where I added comments for my understanding of how the scroll was linked to the list. The same effect can be accomplished with fewer lines of code. do [ ; first this do block creates the data definitions needed. slider-position-clicked: 0 count: 0 x: 450 y: 300 row-y: 16 ; the row height includes the data plus any separator lines list-size: to-pair reduce [x y] ; this is the size of the display list separator-size: to-pair reduce [x 1] slider-size: to-pair reduce [24 y ] list-collection: [ aqua bar-color base-color beige black blue brick brown button-color coal coffee crimson cyan forest gold gray green ivory khaki leaf linen magenta main-color maroon mint navy oldrab olive orange over-color papaya pewter pink purple rebolor red sienna silver sky snow tan teal violet water wheat white yellow ] supply-style: stylize [ button-fixed: button left coal to-pair reduce [80 row-y] ; these keep the row elements the same height text-fixed: txt to-pair reduce [160 row-y] ] data-size: length? list-collection ] backtile polished orange ; this section layouts out the list across list-position: at ; the position is captured here in order to later put the slider beside it list-displayed: list linen edge [size: 6x6 color: tan] list-size [ origin 0 space 0x0 across styles supply-style text-fixed [alert rejoin ["You pressed the " face/text " text field"]] button-fixed [alert rejoin ["You pressed the " face/text " button"]] pad 5x0 text-fixed 80 italic [alert rejoin ["You pressed the italic " face/text " text field"]] return box separator-size gray ; this causes a horizontal line to appear between each row ] supply [ count: count + slider-position-clicked if none? one-color: pick list-collection count [exit] face/text: either count > (1 + data-size) [""] [ do pick [ [one-color] ; this is supplied to the first txt field (text-fixed) [to-string one-color] ; this is supplied to the button (button-fixed) [rejoin [" " to-string one-color " "]] ; this value is supplied to the last text-fixed field ] index ] ] ; now add a slider to the side of the list at list-position + (list-size * 1x0) ; this finds the top right border of the list widget vertical-slider: slider slider-size to-integer y / row-y [ slider-position-clicked: vertical-slider/data ; the slider has to be bound to the size of the list * ((1 + data-size) - ((y / (1 + row-y)))) ; including the row height if slider-position-clicked <> count [ count: slider-position-clicked show list-displayed ] ] ===Slider A slider is interactive user interface element. The data of a slider varies from 0 to 1. backtile polished orange across slider-1: slider 200x40 return button 200 "Move first slider to 50%" [ slider-1/data: .5 show slider-1 ] return txt 200 "The second slider in this example is initialized to the 80% mark." return slider 200x40 with [append init [data: .8]] ===Progress Indicator The progress-1 face in this example is a progress indicator. Because it is only displaying information, it is non-interactive i.e. you can not change its value by dragging its edges. The alternate button is not supported on a progress indicator. backtile polished orange across slider 200x40 [ progress-1/data: value field-1/text: join (to-integer (100 * value)) " %" show [progress-1 field-1] ] return progress-1: progress return field-1: field ===Panels Panels are used to create sub-panes that can be more easily managed by grouping the user interface devices on a panel. The first example below shows how to use panels for layout alignment. By creating a panel definition, all of the components defined within it are aligned relative to its origin. across backtile polished brick tabs 50 return panel-1: panel 250x120 [ backtile polished across return button water 200 "Button A" return button aqua 200 "Button B" return button sky 200 "Button C" ] at panel-1/offset + panel-1/size panel 60x90 [ ; start at the bottom right corner of panel-1 backtile polished across return button tan 20 "1" return button coffee 20 "2" ] ---Multiple SubPanels example This example from the REBOL html documentation shows how to easily hide and show sections of a user interface by displaying them on the face area of a box. do [ ; define two panels panel1: layout [ origin 8x8 h2 "Panel 1" field "Field 1" field "Field 2" button "The Answer" [alert "I know nothing."] ] panel2: layout [ origin 8x8 h2 "Panel 2" across txt "X:" slider 150x16 return txt "Y:" slider 150x16 return check [panel2/color: maroon show panel2] txt "Don't click this" return check [panel2/color: silver show panel2] txt "Click this" return ] panel1/offset: 0x0 panel2/offset: 0x0 ] vh2 "Subpanel Examples" ; now demonstrate panel use guide pad 20 button "Panel 1" [panels/pane: panel1 show panels] button "Panel 2" [panels/pane: panel2 show panels] button "Quit" [unview] return box 2x140 maroon return panels: box 220x140 do [panels/pane: panel1] ===Simple Default Style Override The style's default look can be overriden easily with one line of code. For example, to make the default button size 200x200 with a water color, use style button button 200x200 water button "Big Blue Button" [unview] To make the toggle some different default colors: style toggle toggle crimson sky toggle "Up" "Down" Note that these stay in effect until they are overridden so if you use the default values, exercise some care unless you meant to do that. ===Image Maker An option used by Carl in some of his programs is to let View create specific icons so that you have portability and more control of look of the image then if you referenced an external file such as gif that was a bullet display. Here's how to do that: do [ make-image: func [xy wh eff] [ eff: layout [ size 20x20 at xy box wh effect eff ] eff/color: rebolor to-image eff ] dot: make-image 6x5 9x9 [gradient 1x1 255.0.0 0.0.0 oval key 0.0.0] dot-big: make-image 8x7 12x12 [gradient 1x1 255.0.0 0.0.0 oval key 0.0.0] arr: make-image 3x3 14x14 [arrow 0.0.127 rotate 90] ard: make-image 3x3 14x14 [arrow 0.0.127 rotate 180] ] ; end of "do" - it is needed here because easyvid approach is expecting vid dialect commands banner "Presentation Points" size 400x300 across style label label gold ; make a label's text be a different color than the default return image dot label "This is bullet point number 1" return image dot label "This is bullet point number 2" return image arr label "This is arrow point number 1" return image ard label "This is an arrow making a different point" return image dot-big pad 0x4 area 300x80 wrap "And because these arrows and dots are images, action can be added to them to make them 'hot' with mouse actions including 'over'." ===Needs Some Work !More to come. These still need to be covered in this tutorial: text-list data [ icon ] ===Digital Clock origin 0 banner "00:00:00" rate 1 effect [gradient 0x1 0.0.150 0.0.50] feel [engage: func [face act evt] [face/text: now/time show face]] ===REBOL Logo image %rebo-logo.gif [unview] ===Paint Drops REBOL one liner by Vincent Ecuyer b: box rate 9 effect[draw[pen(random snow)circle(random 99x99)2]blur]box 1x1 rate 9 effect[draw[(b/image: to-image b)]] ===eMailer One line emailer by Doc Kimbel Assumes you have set up your email in set-user e: field "Email" s: field "Subject" m: area "Body" btn "Send"[send/subject to-email e/text m/text s/text alert "ok"] ===Hello World text "Hello World!" button "Close" [unview] ===Three Buttons button "Yes" button "Maybe" button "No" ===View Web Text text 800x600 read http://www.rebol.com ===View Image image %palms.jpg ===View Image and File Name Here a do block is used to initialize the file variable within the layout code. do [file: %palms.jpg] image file text form file ===View Image behind File Name Here a do block is used to initialize the file variable within the layout code. do [file: %palms.jpg] image file form file ===Buttons From Images backdrop 40.70.140 stat: text bold "Click a Button" 100x20 240.140.40 center button "Bay Test" %bay.jpg 100x100 [ stat/text: "Upper" show stat ] button "Blue Test" %bay.jpg 100x100 10.30.180 [ stat/text: "Lower" show stat ] ===View List list blue 320x200 [across text white 200 text white 100] data [ ["John" 100] ["Joe" 200] ["Martin" 300] ] ===Movie Credits backdrop %bay.jpg effect [fit] text center bold 240x30 "REBOL, The Movie" yellow font [size: 16] credits: text { Edit This File To Add Your Own Credits It is very simple to do. Only takes a minute. Only REBOL Makes It Possible... } white bold center 240x180 rate 30 para [origin: 0x+100] feel [engage: func [f a e] [ if a = 'time [f/para/origin: f/para/origin - 0x1 show f] ] ] ===Fire Demo box 150x150 with [ edge: none img: image: make image! 150x150 rate: 20 text: "FIREBOLEK" font: make font [size: 24 color: 255.125.0] basic: [draw [image make pair! reduce [(random 3) - 2 -1] img]] effects: reduce [ append copy basic [blur luma -10] append copy basic [sharpen luma -10 blur] append copy basic [contrast 10 blur luma -5] ] effect: first effects feel: make feel [ engage: func [f a e][ switch a [ down [f/effects: next f/effects if tail? f/effects [f/effects: head f/effects] f/effect: first f/effects show f] time [show f repeat i f/size/x - 4 [poke f/image (f/size/x * f/size/y) - i - 2 (random 255.0.0 + random 0.127.0) * 3] f/img: to-image f] ] ] ] ] text 150 {classical fire demo for REBOL^/ press on fire to see other effects.^/ Written by ReBolek, 2001 in 15 mins.^/ We need new category on Assembly:^/ less-than-kb-demo ;-)} with [font: make font [size: 9]] ===Bezier Oldes Bezier Line Demo See script library for %bezier-curve.r Uses functions and data initialized at script startup The end points are draggable to change the curve!!!! Here a do block is used to allow executable lines for initialization purposes. do [ draw-beziere-curve: has [result pp x0 x1 x2 x3 y0 y1 y2 y3 cx bx ax cy by ay t tx ty s] [ result: make block! 120 pp: p0/size/x / 2 x0: p0/offset/x + pp y0: p0/offset/y + pp x1: p1/offset/x + pp y1: p1/offset/y + pp x2: p2/offset/x + pp y2: p2/offset/y + pp x3: p3/offset/x + pp y3: p3/offset/y + pp insert result compose [ pen 155.0.0 line (p0/offset + pp) (p1/offset + pp) line (p2/offset + pp) (p3/offset + pp) pen 255.255.255 line (p0/offset + pp) ] cx: 3 * (x1 - x0) bx: 3 * (x2 - x1) - cx ax: x3 - x0 - cx - bx cy: 3 * (y1 - y0) by: 3 * (y2 - y1) - cy ay: y3 - y0 - cy - by t: s: 0.01 ;this value sets quality of the curve while [t <= 1][ tx: to integer! ( (ax * (t * t * t)) + (bx * (t * t)) + (cx * t) + .5 ) + x0 ty: to integer! ( (ay * (t * t * t)) + (by * (t * t)) + (cy * t) + .5 ) + y0 t: t + s insert tail result to pair! reduce [tx ty] ] return result ] click?: false mouse-pos: 0x0 ] origin 0 bkg: box black 400x400 with [effect: reduce ['draw make block! 120]] style point box 10x10 with [ effect: [draw [pen 0.255.0 fill-pen 0.200.0 circle 4x4 4]] changes: [offset] feel: make feel [ engage: func [f a e][ if a = 'down [click?: on mouse-pos: e/offset] if a = 'up [click?: off] if find [over away] a [ if click? [ f/offset: f/offset + e/offset - mouse-pos bkg/effect/2: draw-beziere-curve show [bkg f] ] ] ] ] ] at 300x200 p0: point at 200x100 p1: point at 200x300 p2: point at 100x200 p3: point do [bkg/effect/2: draw-beziere-curve] ===Buttons Galore Buttons galore from the library script %buttons.r Here a do block is used to execute the initialization needed within the layout block. do [ group: ["rotary" "test" "button"] ] origin 20x10 backdrop effect [gradient 0x1 100.20.0] vh1 "52 Button Click-up - Each with a different click effect..." vtext bold "Here is a small sampling of the thousands of button effects you can create. (This is 78 lines of code.)" at 20x80 guide button "simple" button form now/date button "colored" 100.0.0 button "text colored" font [colors: [255.80.80 80.200.80]] button with [texts: ["up text" "down text"]] button "bi-colored" colors [0.150.100 150.20.20] button with [texts: ["up color" "down color"] colors: [0.150.100 150.20.20]] button "image" pic button "color image" pic 200.100.50 button "flip color" pic with [effects: [[fit colorize 50.50.200][fit colorize 200.50.50]]] button "blink" with [rate: 2 colors: [160.40.40 40.160.40]] return button "multiply" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit multiply 128.80.60]]] button "brighten" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit luma 80]]] button "contrast" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit contrast 80]]] button "horiz flip" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit flip 1x0]]] button "vert reflect" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit reflect 0x1]]] button "invert" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit invert]]] button "vert grad" with [effects: [[gradient 0x1 0.0.0 0.200.0] [gradient 0x1 0.200.0 0.0.0]]] button "horiz grad" with [effects: [[gradient 1x0 200.0.0 200.200.200][gradient 1x0 200.200.200 200.0.0]]] button "both grad" with [effects: [[gradient 1x0 140.0.0 40.40.200] [gradient 0x1 40.40.200 140.0.0]]] button "blink grad" with [rate: 4 effects: [[gradient 1x0 0.0.0 0.0.200] [gradient 1x0 0.0.200 0.0.0]]] button "blink flip" pic with [rate: 8 effects: [[fit][fit flip 0x1]]] return button "big dull button with several lines" 100x80 0.0.100 button "dual color" pic 50.50.100 100.50.50 100x80 with [edge: [color: 80.80.80]] button "big edge" pic 100x80 with [edge: [size: 5x5 color: 80.80.80] effects: [[fit colorize 50.100.50][fit]]] button "oval reflect" pic 50.100.50 100x80 with [effect: [fit reflect 1x0 oval]] return button "text on top" pic 100x80 with [font: [valign: 'top] effects: [[fit gradcol 1x1 200.0.0 0.0.200] [fit gradcol -1x-1 200.0.0 0.0.200]]] button "text on bottom" pic 100x80 50.50.100 with [font: [valign: 'bottom] effects: [[fit][fit invert]]] button "big text font" pic 100x80 with [font: [size: 24] effects: [[fit multiply 50.100.200][fit]]] button "cross flip" pic 50.100.50 100x80 with [effect: [fit flip 0x1 reflect 0x1 cross]] return toggle "toggle" toggle "toggle red" 100.0.0 toggle "toggle up" "toggle down" toggle "toggle colored" 0.150.100 150.20.20 toggle "up color" "down color" 0.150.100 150.20.20 toggle "toggle multiply" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit multiply 128.80.60]]] toggle "toggle contrast" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit contrast 80]]] toggle "toggle cross" pic with [effects: [[fit][fit cross]]] toggle "toggle v-grad" with [effects: [[gradient 0x1 0.0.0 0.200.0] [gradient 0x1 0.200.0 0.0.0]]] toggle "toggle h-grad" with [effects: [[gradient 1x0 200.0.0 200.200.200][gradient 1x0 200.200.200 200.0.0]]] toggle "toggle both" with [effects: [[gradient 1x0 140.0.0 40.40.200] [gradient 0x1 40.40.200 140.0.0]]] return rotary data group rotary data reduce [now/date now/time] rotary data group 100.0.0 0.100.0 0.0.100 rotary data group with [font: [colors: [255.80.80 80.200.80]]] rotary data group with [colors: [0.150.100 150.20.20]] rotary data group pic rotary data group pic 200.100.50 rotary data group pic with [effects: [[fit colorize 50.50.200][fit colorize 200.50.50]]] rotary data group with [effects: [[gradient 0x1 0.0.0 0.200.0] [gradient 0x1 0.200.0 0.0.0]]] rotary data group with [effects: [[gradient 1x0 200.0.0 200.200.200][gradient 1x0 200.200.200 200.0.0]]] rotary data group with [effects: [[gradient 1x0 140.0.0 40.40.200] [gradient 0x1 40.40.200 140.0.0]]] ===Paint Program This section is a clip of the layout portion of Frank Sievertsen's remarkable paint program. Open this example to enable a quick link to the real source: button "Browse Source" [browse http://www.reboltech.com/library/html/paint.html] button "Close" [unview] In the example below, a DO block is used to execute initialize code. do [ color: fill-color: start: draw-image: draw-pos: tmp: none type: 'box undos: [] redos: [] draw: func [offset /local tmp] [ compose [ pen (color/color) fill-pen (fill-color/color) (type) (start) (either type = 'circle [ tmp: offset - start to-integer square-root add tmp/x ** 2 tmp/y ** 2 ] [offset]) ] ] ] backdrop effect compose [gradient 1x1 (sky) (water)] across draw-image: image white 300x300 effect [draw []] feel [engage: func [face action event] [ if all [type start] [ if find [over away] action [ append clear draw-pos draw event/offset show face ] if action = 'up [ append/only undos draw-pos draw-pos: tail draw-pos start: none ] ] if all [type action = 'down] [ start: event/offset ] ]] do [draw-pos: draw-image/effect/draw] guide style text text [ tmp: first back find face/parent-face/pane face tmp/feel/engage tmp 'down none tmp/feel/engage tmp 'up none ] label "Tool:" return radio [type: 'line] text "Line" return radio [type: 'box] on text "Box" return radio [type: 'circle] text "Circle" return style color-box box 15x15 [ face/color: either face/color [request-color/color face/color] [request-color] ] ibevel color: color-box 0.0.0 text "Pen" return fill-color: color-box text "Fill-pen" return button "Undo" [if not empty? undos [ append/only redos copy last undos draw-pos: clear last undos remove back tail undos show draw-image ]] return button "Redo" [if not empty? redos [ append/only undos draw-pos draw-pos: insert draw-pos last redos remove back tail redos show draw-image ]] ===Font Lab Carl's Font lab Here a do block is used to initialize some values needed in the layout do [ change-styles: func [style start facet subfacet value /local v][ start: find style/pane start foreach f start [ f: in f facet if subfacet <> 'none [f: in get f subfacet] either block? value [ if not block? get f [set f either none? get f [copy []][reduce [get f]]] either v: find get f value [remove v][head insert get f value] ][set f value] ] show style ] chg: func ['facet 'subfacet value] [ change-styles external-view norm-start facet subfacet value ] shad: does [chg font shadow sdir * to-integer sl2/data * 16] sdir: 1x1 sz: 180x40 sx2: sz/x / 2 ] style tgl toggle 60 style lab vtext bold backcolor rebolor space 0x5 across p: choice 180 "Sans-Serif Style" "Serif Style" "Fixed Width Style" [chg font name pick reduce [font-sans-serif font-serif font-fixed] index? p/data] return tgl "Bold" [chg font style [bold]] tgl "Italic" italic [chg font style [italic]] tgl "Lined" underline [chg font style [underline]] return tgl "Left" of 'tg1 [chg font align 'left] tgl "Center" of 'tg1 [chg font align 'center] tgl "Right" of 'tg1 [chg font align 'right] return tgl "Top" of 'tg2 [chg font valign 'top] tgl "Middle" of 'tg2 [chg font valign 'middle] tgl "Bottom" of 'tg2 [chg font valign 'bottom] return lab "Size:" 60x20 font [] sl: slider 120x20 [chg font size max 8 to-integer sl/data * 40] with [append init [data: .5]] return lab "Space:" 60x20 font [] sl1: slider 120x20 [chg font space (1x0 * to-integer sl1/data * 20) - 5x0] return lab "Shadow:" 60x20 font [] sl2: slider 120x20 [shad] with [append init [data: .5]] return lab "Shad Dir:" 60x20 arrow left [sdir: sdir * 0x1 + -1x0 shad] pad 6 arrow right [sdir: sdir * 0x1 + 1x0 shad] pad 6 arrow up [sdir: sdir * 1x0 + 0x-1 shad] pad 6 arrow down [sdir: sdir * 1x0 + 0x1 shad] pad 6 return button sx2 "Text Color" [chg font color request-color] button sx2 "Area Color" [chg color none request-color] return button sx2 "Help" [alert "Click the controls on the left to change text on the right."] button sx2 "Close" #"^Q" [unview] below at p/offset + (p/size * 1x0) + 10x0 norm-start: Title "Title" sz h1 "Heading 1" sz h2 "Heading 2" sz h3 "Heading 3" sz h4 "Heading 4" sz h5 "Heading 5" sz at norm-start/offset + (norm-start/size * 1x0) + 10x0 banner "Banner" sz vh1 "Video Heading 1" sz vh2 "Video Heading 2" sz vh3 "Video Heading 3" sz vtext "Video Text" sz text "Document Text" sz ===Windows Clipboard ---Cut or Copy to Clipboard Normal Windows cut and copy commands are supported e.g. on a field, contents can be copied to the clipboard. Programmatic access is also supported for text contents. across label "Entry field: " return input-field: field 200 "Enter your text here" return button 200 "Copy Entry field data to clipboard" [write clipboard:// input-field/text] return button 200 "Show Clipboard Contents" [alert read clipboard://] ---Clearing The Clipboard across button 200 "Clear The Clipboard" [write clipboard:// ""] return button 200 "Show Clipboard Contents" [alert read clipboard://] ---Paste from Clipboard Normal Windows paste commands are supported e.g. on a field, contents can be pasted. Programmatic access is also supported for text contents. across button 200 "Show Clipboard Contents" [alert read clipboard://] ===Requesters REBOL View supports an assortment of requesters. The results of the request-* code are returned as its value e.g. chosen-date: request-date ---Request Yes | No | Cancel Provides the user the capability to pick from choices "Yes" | "No" | "Cancel" The result is "True" | "False" | none do [user-response: none] button "Simple Request" 200 [user-response: request "Do you want to abandon your input so far?"] button "View User Response" 200 [alert form user-response] ---Pick A Color do [chosen-color: gold] button "Pick Color" 200 [chosen-color: request-color] button "View Chosen Color" 200 [alert form chosen-color] ---Pick An Answer The request allows a descriptive value then 1, 2, or 3 options. button "Format" 100 [request ["Your message goes here. It will wrap if it is very very long." "Choice 1" "Choice 2" "Choice 3"]] button "Example 1" 100 [request ["Pick The Color of Your New Model T" "Black"]] button "Example 2" 100 [request ["Pick one country" "England" "France"]] button "Example 3" 100 [request ["Run Extract Script?" "Yes" "No" "Cancel"]] ---Pick A Date do [chosen-date: 01-Jun-1990] button "Pick Date" 200 [chosen-date: request-date] button "See Chosen Date" 200 [alert form chosen-date] ---Get A LogonID and Password do [credentials: none] button "Get Credentials" 200 [credentials: request-pass] button "View Credentials" 200 [ view/new layout [ size 200x200 backtile polished orange across banner "Credentials" return label "LogonID: " txt pick credentials 1 return label "Password: " txt pick credentials 2 ] ] ---Pick A File Format: REQUEST-FILE /title title-line button-text /file name /filter filt /keep do [filter-block: ["*.gif" "*.jpg" "*.png" "*.bmp"]] button "Pick Any File" 300 [request-file "Select"] button "Pick With A Title" 300 [request-file/title "Pick The Data File to Process" "OK"] button "Change the Action Button Name" 300 [request-file/title "Pick The Data File to Process" "OK"] button "Keep Results" 300 [request-file/title/keep "Previous Select On This Button Is Kept" "OK"] button "Filter Files" 300 [request-file/title/filter "Pick An Image File" "OK" filter-block] ---Request Text Input Format: REQUEST-TEXT /offset xy /title title-text /default str button "Request Text Input - all default parameters" 300 [request-text] button "Request Text Input - with offset to window" 300 [request-text/offset 40x40] button "Request Text Input - with title" 300 [request-text/title "Input your question"] button "Request Text Input - with default" 300 [request-text/default "Key your question here"] button "Request Text Input - with all parameters" 300 [request-text/offset/title/default 100x100 "Input your question" "Key your question here"] ---Request Download from Net Request a file download from the net. Show progress. Return none on error. Format: REQUEST-DOWNLOAD url /to local-file backtile polished orange button "Request File Download To local REBOL Cache" 300 [request-download http://www.rebol.com/index.html] button "Request File Download To This Directory" 300 [request-download/to http://www.rebol.com/index.htmlnone] button "Request File Download To Specific File" 300 [request-download/to http://www.rebol.com/index.html%/c/temp.html] ===Message Box button "Format" 100 [request ["Your message goes here. It will wrap if it is very very long and tedious." "Close"]] button "Example" 100 [request ["You done good!" "OK"]] ---Confirmation button "Exit" 100 [ request/confirm "Do you want to quit without saving?" [] ] ===Calling the Editor The REBOL editor is now callable with the editor function backtile polished button 300 "Create a test file and edit it" [ write %temp.txt "This is a test file" editor %temp.txt ] frame 204.0.0 ===Calling Windows With View/Pro the calling of executables is supported. Here are two simple examples that will work if you have View/Pro on a platform where a notepad and calc are avaiable. across backtile size 200x200 return button "Notepad" [call ["notepad.exe"]] return button "Calculator" [call ["calc.exe"]] ===Window Options Note that these are options which are ignored by the easyvid.r code that displays them in this tutorial. Copy the code out and run it standalone in REBOL/View. ---Block Options: No Border and No Title view/options layout [ size 200x200 banner "Window Options" button "Close" [unview] ] [ no-border no-title ] ---Word Option: No Title Note that the results of this are surprising if you run it from within a script that has a title option. It is displayed near location 0x0 of the resulting window instead of in the window frame that has been suppressed. view/options layout [ size 200x200 banner "Window Options" button "Close" [unview] ] 'no-title ===REBOL/View Notifiers REBOL/View supports simple notifiers to send messages to a user interface ---Alert button 220 polished "Send alert message" [ alert "This causes a dialogue box to popup" ] ---Flash Flash is provided to provide a message and keep on processing. across size 200x200 return button 150 "Create Flash Message" [flash "Testing"] return button 150 "Unview Flash" [unview] ---Inform inform layout [ backtile polished sky across text font-size 16 bold underline red "Action complete!" return button "OK" [unview]] ---Popup REBOL supports popups (see note below before running!) across size 200x200 button "Show Popup" [ show-popup popup-layout: layout [ across size 200x200 backtile polished banner "The Popup Worked" return button "Unview" [unview] ] ] return button "Hide Popup" [unview/only popup-layout] I have had some difficulties (process lockup) when using these popups so just use view layout [...] and skip the popup part. ===Diagram Example Carl has created some diagrams in REBOL using styles to make an architecture diagram. This is a slightly modified version. Here again a DO block precedes the layout code for non-layout initiatiation ... here the definition of a function. Why make a diagram this way? 1. One reason is that it can be interactive ... the sections are all "hot" with a few lines of code. Here they pop up REBOL Dialogs but they could do anything that can be coded even something as simple as launching a browser on a different URL for each diagram component. The "Compositor" box demonstrates this by launching your browser on the REBOL.com site. 2. Very small footprint size compared to other presentation source formats. do [ information: func [info [string!]][ request/ok reform [ info] ] ] style bx box 255.255.255 0.0.0 font-size 11 font [color: 0.0.0 shadow: 0x0] edge [size: 5x2] [request/ok reform ["No information on" face/text]] style bb box bold left top para [origin: 6x10] edge [size: 2x2] [request/ok reform ["No information on" face/text]] backcolor silver + 30 at 15x15 h1 486 left "Arch Structure" at 15x50 bb "Client" 506x436 160.80.80 [ information "Any client machine e.g. branch or Call Centre"] at 25x252 bb "Mid-Tier" 486x68 effect [gradient 1x1 169.91.155 80.45.75] at 25x152 bb "UI" 486x96 effect [gradient 1x1 38.156.82 19.78.41] at 25x324 bb "Servers" 486x151 effect [gradient 1x1 103.96.200 50.45.100] [ information "Mid-tiers servers with XYZ relational database server" ] at 130x216 bx "Compositor" 182x24 bold [browse http://www.rebol.com] at 130x60 bx "Browser" 120x24 [information "Branch standard browser"] at 130x188 bx "Sound" 182x24 bold [information "Sound services"] at 255x60 bx "Win32" 120x24 [information "Win32 App"] ===Column Images Creates a layout looking (a little) like columns. It uses a gradient effect going from darker to lighter do [ column: make image! layout [ backdrop effect [gradient 1x0 20.20.20 250.240.230 luma 60] ] column-size: 50x420 area-size: 400x420 ; height should be the same as column-size ] backtile polished tan across image column-size column pad -10x0 ; this brings the default VID spacing back area wrap area-size edge none ; take the edge off of area so that it more closely blends shadow 2x2 pad -10x0 image column-size column ; if you want a right column ===Tree View of Directory This is Didier's tree view %request-dir.r In this sample, you must be online because the code is accessed on the Rebol script server do [do http://www.rebol.org/library/scripts/request-dir.r request-dir ] Note that: * the script is read from the script library but runs locally * it is showing the files in your directories ===The emailer Function The function for emailing has appeared in Jan-2004 on the rebol list. It is a simple idea ... to create a standard emailer by invoking a function emailer. This window will show the source: text wrap 400x300 mold get 'emailer And it is simple to run: across size 200x200 return button 150 "Run emailer" [emailer] But on my machine there is again a problem - the emailer locks up REBOL/View. Recommendation: * if it works use it if you like * use Doc Kimbel's one liner (works for me). Assumes you have set up your email in set-user e: field "Email" s: field "Subject" m: area "Body" btn "Send"[send/subject to-email e/text m/text s/text alert "ok"] * better yet, make your own... if the code for the basic is 1 line, then a custom version is not far away. Here's an example that allows selection of your frequent contacts (entered in the names-addresses series) and keeps a journal of email that you have sent (using this code) in file email-journal.txt. Assumes you have setup your user profile correctly to allow sending of email. do [ names-addresses: [ "Contact 1" [contact1-:-no-such-address-:-com] "Contact 2" [contact2-:-no-such-address-:-com] "Contact 3" [contact3-:-no-such-address-:-com] ] names: copy [] foreach [name address] names-addresses [append names name] journal?: false ; set to true if want to journalize sent email ] e: rotary 200 data sort names s: field "Subject" m: area 500x400 wrap "Body" btn "Send"[ send/subject who-to: select names-addresses e/text m/text s/text alert join "Sent email to: " form who-to if journal? [ write/append %email-journal.txt rejoin [ "[ When-sent: " now/precise " To: " who-to " Subject: {" s/text "} Message: {" m/text "} ] " newline ] ] ] btn "Quit" [unview] It won't take much to change this from the rotary used to a text list allowing multiple selections. ===Some More email Earlier there have been a few examples of sending email. Here are a few more that often appear in the mailing list ---Simple Send This is not a runnable version because you don't need anything but REBOL/Core to run it. It has been wrapped in a DO block so it does not send errors to the console. ---Quick Send Short Message do [ send [address-:-isp-:-com] "My Message" ] ---Send Longer Message Now a more complex message where there is a body to the message: do [ send [address-:-isp-:-com] {Sample Message This is the body of the message } ] ---Send with One Attachment Here, so that the sample does not fail, test file(s) are created by the code before attempting the send. do [ test-file: %file-attachment.txt write test-file {Just some test data to create a file} send/attach [address-:-isp-:-com] {Sample Message This is the body of the message } test-file ] ---Send with Attachments And a message with multiple attachments. Here, so that the sample does not fail, test file(s) are created by the code before attempting the send. do [ files: [%file-attachment.txt %second-attachment.txt] foreach file files [write file {Just some test data to create a file}] send/attach [address-:-isp-:-com] {Sample Message This is the body of the message } files ] ---Send to Multiple Addresses Here, so that the sample does not fail, test file(s) are created by the code before attempting the send. do [ files: [%file-attachment.txt %second-attachment.txt] foreach file files [write file {Just some test data to create a file}] send/attach [[address-:-isp-:-com][asecondAddress-:-isp-:-com]] {Sample Message This is the body of the message } files ] ---Send/only Same send only just provide the SMTP server with one copy: Here, so that the sample does not fail, test file(s) are created by the code before attempting the send. do [ files: [%file-attachment.txt %second-attachment.txt] foreach file files [write file {Just some test data to create a file}] send/only/attach [[address-:-isp-:-com][asecondAddress-:-isp-:-com]] {Sample Message This is the body of the message } files ] ---Send With Header This example uses a Do block to wrap the code. If you execute the email should be sent. But it is unlikely to be delivered. The addresses for me and you should be changed in your use as well as the * Subject * Organization * Content do [ me: [myaddress-:-isp-:-com] you: [youraddress-:-isp-:-com] header-object: make system/standard/email [ From: me Reply-To: me Subject: "Some Stuff" Organization: "Cyberia" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: "text/plain" ] send/header you {Test Message This is the message body. } header-object ] ---Send with CC This adds a copy value in the header-object do [ me: [myaddress-:-isp-:-com] you: [youraddress-:-isp-:-com] header-object: make system/standard/email [ From: me Reply-To: me Subject: "Some Stuff" Organization: "Cyberia" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: "text/plain" cc: [another-address-:-isp-:-com] ] send/header you {Test Message This is the message body. } header-object ] ---Doctored Code Again Doc Kimbel's one liner that does not waste a character e: field "Email" s: field "Subject" m: area "Body" btn "Send"[send/subject to-email e/text m/text s/text alert "ok"] ===Sharp Styles I really like the style that Didier has put around his email previewer do [ ss-light: stylize [ text: text feel none vtext: vtext feel none col-hdg: text black 255.255.204 bold middle effect [] col-txt: text edge [size: 1x0 color: gray effect: 'bevel] ban: vh3 left to-pair reduce [ 50 logo.gif/size/y] edge [ color: 0.0.0 size: 0x1] feel none with [color: black] lab: label para [origin: 2x3 margin: 0x2] labe: lab edge [size: 1x1 color: water effect: 'ibevel] inf: info 100 font-color yellow bkg: backdrop water - 10.10.10 txt-big: vtext 300 font-size 18 font-color yellow center rti: vtext font-size 14 bold txt-ch: rti font-color white 170x22 para [ origin: 2x3] with [font: make font [ color: white] colors: [55.95.155 235.170.55]] btnb: btn 70.70.70 font-color white men: rti 264 edge [size: 1x1 color: water effect: 'bevel] para [origin: 20x2 margin: 1x4] with [color: water - 40.40.40 effect: first effects: [ [draw [pen white fill-pen white polygon 5x2 13x10 5x18]] [draw [pen white fill-pen white polygon 2x5 10x13 18x5]] ] feel: none] ;system/view/vid/vid-feel/hot] cbox: box 60x20 edge [size: 1x1 color: water effect: 'bevel] [ if temp: request-color/color first face/data [face/color: temp change face/data temp show face] ] with [append init [color: first data]] ] stylesheet: ss-heavy: stylize/styles [ col-hdg: col-hdg effect [gradcol 0x1 200.200.160 155.155.104] ban: ban effect [merge gradcol 150.180.200 0.0.0] with [color: none] bkg: backdrop effect [gradient 1x1 65.125.175 45.75.115 grid 2000x4 1999x4 70.130.190 blur] txt-big: vtext 300 font-size 18 font-color yellow center rti: vtext font-size 14 bold txt-ch: txt-ch effect [gradcol -1x1 105.105.105 151.151.151] men: men effect [gradcol -1x0 black water] ] ss-light ] styles stylesheet space 4x4 origin 4x4 across bkg pad 15 ban 235 :title para [origin: 32x0] pad -254 image 30x30 %palms.jpg effect [fit key 255.0.255] } code: text: layo: external-view: none sections: [] layouts: [] space: charset " ^-" chars: complement charset " ^-^/" rules: [title some parts] title: [text-line (title-line: text)] parts: [ newline | "===" section | "---" subsect | "!" note | example | paragraph ] text-line: [copy text to newline newline] indented: [some space thru newline] paragraph: [copy para some [chars thru newline] (emit txt para)] note: [copy para some [chars thru newline] (emit-note para)] example: [ copy code some [indented | some newline indented] (emit-code code) ] section: [ text-line ( append sections text append/only layouts layo: copy page-template emit h1 text ) newline ] subsect: [text-line (emit h2 text)] emit: func ['style data] [repend layo [style data]] emit-code: func [code] [ remove back tail code repend layo ['code 460x-1 trim/auto code 'show-example] ] emit-note: func [code] [ remove back tail code repend layo ['tnt 460x-1 code] ] show-example: [ if external-view [xy: external-view/offset unview/only external-view] xcode: load/all face/text if not block? xcode [xcode: reduce [xcode]] ;!!! fix load/all if here: select xcode 'layout [xcode: here] external-view: view/new/offset layout xcode xy ] page-template: [ size 500x480 origin 8x8 backdrop white - 80 style code tt snow navy bold as-is para [origin: margin: 12x8] style tnt txt maroon bold ] parse/all detab content rules show-page: func [i /local blk last-face][ i: max 1 min length? sections i append clear tl/picked pick sections i if blk: pick layouts this-page: i [ f-box/pane: layout/offset blk 0x0 last-face: last f-box/pane/pane ; bh slider f-box/pane/pane/1/size: f-box/pane/size: max 500x480 add 20x20 add last-face/offset last-face/size ; bh slider update-slider ; bh slider show f-box ] show tl ; changed to after slider update ; was not refreshing the index display ] update-slider: does [ sld/data: 0 either object? f-box/pane [ sld/redrag min 1.0 divide sld/size/2 f-box/pane/size/2 sld/action: func[face event] compose [ f-box/pane/offset/2: multiply face/data (subtract 480 f-box/pane/size/2) show f-box ] ][ sld/redrag 1.0 show sld sld/action: none ] show sld ] main: layout [ backtile polished across vh2 title-line return tl: text-list 160x480 bold black white data sections [ show-page index? find sections value ] h: at f-box: box 500x480 at h + 500x0 sld: slider 24x480 ; add brett's slider at h + 456x-24 across space 4 arrow left keycode [up left] [show-page this-page - 1] arrow right keycode [down right] [show-page this-page + 1] pad -150 txt white italic font-size 16 form system/script/header/date/date ] show-page 1 xy: main/offset + either system/view/screen-face/size/x > 900 [ main/size * 1x0 + 8x0][300x300] view main | |
btiffin: 29-Apr-2008 | Cool; A little background for Brian's sake. I bumped into this trying to move my LOCATE routine to TRETBASE so I was using system/words as a source for testing. Didn't make it past entry 122 < to lit-word! didn't make it past 111 '/ kakks too. | |
Sunanda: 6-Oct-2008 | Like this? xyz: func[msg] [print msg] blk: [xyz "this message" ] blk/1: :xyz ;; set the first entry to be the function do blk ;; then do it this message ;; result! | |
PeterWood: 22-Mar-2009 | The entry in the Rebol dictionary for the = finciton explains that it is case insensitive. == should be used for case sensitive equality checks. | |
BrianH: 1-Apr-2009 | No, R2 doesn't use registers. The context assigned to the function is reused, with the value block switched out on recursion. The original (non-recursive) value block is left alone when the function returns, and set to nones on function entry. This is where the memory leaks come from: unintentionally persistent references to local variables. R2 actually does have a stack (it's a block), but it is used differently. R3 just has a second context type that does stack-indirect word dereferencing. When the function starts a block of values is pushed on the task-local stack and the references to those values do an additional indirection to get the stack frame before getting the values - this is why function! word dereferencing is 28% slower than object! or closure! word dereferencing. R2 has two context types: object! and system/words (an expandable object!). R3 also has two context types: it doesn't have R2-style object! contexts - all are expandable like system/words - but it does add the stack-indirect type. | |
Group: View ... discuss view related issues [web-public] | ||
Pekr: 2-Oct-2005 | - currently when you install, it seems to work correctly, untill you choose to uninstall. You typically go to control-panel/install-uninstall icon, you find Rebol and choose to unistall. That is great, but that entry seems to be shared between the accounts. So - I tried installing for two accounts and IIRC the entry vanished and in fact second user could object, that he can't regurally uninstall Rebol - currently View contain rather nasty bug, which does NOT allow it to be run without the installation at all. Try to uninstall Rebol and then try running it rebol.exe -i your-sript.r, it will try to launch desktop and what is more it will try to connect to internet and if you are behind proxy, god save you, because Rebol blocks and you can't shut it down even using ctrl alt del combination, and that is REALLY ANNOYING and knowing myself, if I would be newcomer and would like to try Rebol, it would go into trash just because of that ... | |
Henrik: 22-Oct-2005 | didec, thanks. I posted a RAMBO entry about it not being mentioned in the console help. | |
Henrik: 9-Nov-2005 | The standard list has a few problems, notably in that you are forced to update the entire listview, when you want to refresh a single entry. That makes it slow for mouseovers. The old code was much faster at scrolling and doing mouse overs as I could have full control over which part of the list I wanted to show, but everything was done manually, but it was not direct pane programming. | |
Henrik: 15-Nov-2005 | hmm... how do I set the default entry in a CHOICE at layout time? I wanted to do something like this: view layout [choice "1" "2" "3" with [data: next face/data]] | |
Robert: 28-Dec-2005 | question: I'm using a text-list, which I update with some data after the use selected an entry. I want the slider to go to the top and show the first entry in the list as well. Positioning only the slider leaves the entries somewhere in teh middle. | |
Henrik: 28-Dec-2005 | Sorry, Robert. There is something I want to announce. :-) http://hmkdesign.dk/list-test.png<--- a picture of the list view I'm building. Currently about half done and quite usable at this time: It's resizable. Values are stored as blocks of blocks. All columns can be sorted. Input columns can be filtered so you can show only some columns. Columns can be freely reordered (but not in the GUI yet). One arbitrary column can be resized. It has the normal range of series manipulation functions available in REBOL. There is also possibility for inline editing, by doubleclicking a line. Changed values are automatically stored in the list. All such operations are "bundled" in the list view VID code and you only need to provide whatever functions needed to store the list data in an external place. If a text entry is too wide, it'll be neatly cut with ellipsis (...). Filtering function, to filter input by rows. Also has a scroll-to-selected-line function. It's about as fast as the current LIST in VID, since it really is LIST with just a whole bunch of extra functions to make general list views easy. There are functions possible for clicking and double clicking and functions for retrieving rows and columns. Current limitations: No mouse over indication (can't make it fast enough). Only one resizable column. No keyboard navigation. No horizontal scrolling. No scroll-wheel support. It doesn't integrate 100% with VID yet. I'm using some of my own widgets and bitmap graphics from a pretty big GUI library. Stripe look, font and coloring is locked. No standard settings yet for the list view. All code is about 250 lines. Planning: Reordering columns via drag'n'drop. Column resizing, if I can figure it out. Format the font object conditionally from list input (make this line bold if the age column is > 45 years, etc.). Grid drawing. Images in list rows. And if I can get around to it: Single cell in-line editing ala spreadsheets. :-) | |
Henrik: 31-Dec-2005 | sorry for the wait... Version 0.0.8 uploaded Changes: New: Functions to select next, previous, next page, previous page, first and last. Uses FOLLOW. New: FOLLOW. Automatically follows the selected entry so it's always in view. Requires FOLLOW? set to TRUE New: SCROLL-HERE. Scrolls automatically to the selected entry. Fix: Filter result was lost after resize. Fix: Sorting was lost after resize. Fix: Sorting indication is now persistent after resize. Fix: Dual state sorting was accidentally broken. New: Initial sorting can now be set before first view New: Right-click on header unsorts the list Demo can be found at http://hmkdesign.dk/rebol/list-view3.r | |
Henrik: 31-Dec-2005 | forgot an entry: New: can return a row as a block or an object from the selected row, using GET-ROW-HERE. | |
Robert: 23-Jan-2006 | When using a text-list, how do I reset the slider to the top if the data changes? For example: The slider is at a lower position, now I change the content to some smaler list and want to redrag the slider to the top and have the text-list show the first entry at the top. | |
Pekr: 2-Feb-2006 | we asked RT for years for the slight change, but it was not heard, or just - ignored ... when I saw guys experimenting with .bat (cmd) idea of removing the registry entry with some small util before you start IOS, I said enough, unplugged IOS, period ... | |
Volker: 2-Feb-2006 | for usb i once provided a solution. an encap which changed the registry-entry to point somewhere else, eg the place it was called from. if you call that from usb, usb is the link-root for new starts. | |
Pekr: 2-Feb-2006 | Volker - new server you have to put into different dir, as you can't extend your selection list with new server entry. dunno right now, license.key related or something like that .... | |
Anton: 25-Feb-2006 | Which Carl's blog entry are you talking about ? | |
Ingo: 2-Mar-2006 | My script looks like this view layout [ title "Address" across name-list: list 300x400 [ text bold 400 [ person-info: first sql rejoin [{select * from person where guid like "%} face/user-data {%";} ] ;person-info: ["1" "ingo" "hohmann" "static test" "" "" ""] vals: get person-disp repeat i length? person-info [insert clear vals/:i person-info/:i] show w ] ] supply [ count: count + cnt face/color: ivory face/text: none if even? count [face/color: ivory - 50.50.50] if none? v: pick list-data count [exit] face/text: reform [pick v 4 "-" pick v 2 pick v 3] face/user-data: pick v 1 ] sld: slider 16x400 [ c: max 0 to-integer (length? list-data) * value if c <> cnt [cnt: c show name-list] ] w: box 400x400 with [pane: layout address/make-person-lay] ] If I click on a list entry, it's like all other entries are removed from the list. Wherever I click I always get the same entry, if I move the mouse over the list, all other lines are emptied when the mouse moves over them. Using the static test-data everything warks fine | |
Allen: 1-May-2006 | Graham, you could use the link style to popup an option list when clicked. Though that will be tedious for data entry. alternately use the autofill style for text boxes when you want both free text and or a standard list. | |
Gregg: 12-Oct-2006 | Very cool bolek! With a few more fields for control of color and gradients, and the ability to save as an image, I would suggest it for inclusion as a Desktop entry with things like Font-lab and such. | |
Pekr: 10-Nov-2006 | Hi, I just received reply from RT towards my following request: ---------- I have also suggestion towards View Desktop. IIRC there is also RAMBO entry about it - please, lower the timeout, because Desktop tries to connect to Internet by default, and if someone is behind the proxy, it is frustrating experience - you can't close blocked Rebol even by window close button. As for me, I would prefer not connecting by default, and changing "Local" to "Connect", "Disconnect" duo ... -------------- On Viewtop, I agree. Let's develop a good method for that, and put it in the next release. There are a few choices. 1) Shorter timeout, 2) popup request to connect, 3) connect on demand (after clicking on an icon that has no file). Perhaps you know some users who have a suggestion? -REBOL Support | |
Anton: 3-Feb-2007 | Gabriele, I see your point: The user might want to enter some data in a field, but part way through think of something else and leave the field to attend to it, then return to the original field to complete the data entry. Finally the enter key will do the face action which can validate the field. | |
BrettH: 8-Aug-2008 | I have a similar problem re: scrolling, and I've tried the suggstions by amacleod without success, here I've copied a modified version of cookbook-scroller in the hope someone can suggest a solution.Hi, I'm trying to write a data entry form with many fields, this form is longer than a typical monitor viewing area. Creating the form is easy, but I cannot work out how to scroll the whole form 'up/down' when the user TAB's out of the last showing field bottom and display the 'hidden' fields. Rebol actually does TAB to the next field and accepts data entry but you cannot see it without manually moving the scroll slider. How do I programmatically make the form 'move' up/down ? and sync the slider ? I've tried "all" the example code I can find and none seem to do the trick :-) In the attached (modified cookbook-scroller.r) program I've added a few fields to illustrate the problem. My need is for rapid data entry and using the mouse is really not a option, The program accepts user data, user TABS to navigate to next field, form slides as necessary, upon last field, data is saved, form cleared, cursor placed at first field, data entry continues. Thanks for any ideas. ;; =============================== rebol ["cookbook-scroller2.r"] sub-panel: layout [ across origin 5 style label text bold right 60 backcolor tan h2 leaf "Scrolling Sub Panel" return label "Name:" f1: field return label "Email:" f2: field return label "Info:" f3: area wrap return label "Month:" l1: text-list data system/locale/months return label "Day:" s1: slider 200x20 return label button "Submit" button "Cancel" [quit] ] out: layout [ across h3 "Panel Scrolling Example" return space 0 p1: box 300x300 coal frame black s1: scroller 16x300 [scroll-panel-vert p1 s1] return s2: scroller 300x16 [scroll-panel-horz p1 s2] return ] p1/pane: sub-panel scroll-panel-vert: func [pnl bar][ pnl/pane/offset/y: negate bar/data * (max 0 pnl/pane/size/y - pnl/size/y) show pnl ] scroll-panel-horz: func [pnl bar][ pnl/pane/offset/x: negate bar/data * (max 0 pnl/pane/size/x - pnl/size/x) show pnl ] update-panel: func [pnl vbar hbar] [ pnl/pane/offset: 0x0 s1/data: s2/data: 0 vbar/redrag pnl/size/y / pnl/pane/size/y hbar/redrag pnl/size/x / pnl/pane/size/x show [pnl vbar hbar] ] update-panel p1 s1 s2 view out ;; ============ | |
BrettH: 8-Aug-2008 | Thanks for your input. I removed the Month list type and replaced with fields. Tab does visit each one in turn, and accepts data enty even tho their not visible. ( until you slide) eg: label "Name:" f1: field return label "Email:" f2: field return label "Info:" f3: area wrap return label "More info: " f4: field return label "Even more ;" f5: field return As for the 'offset' info you mention, thats probably the key to the problem, and like you I have NO idea how to get this !! I've tried various code ideas attached to the TAB field exit without success. I'm not trying to avoid mouse use , I just want to program the data entry flow for user comfort, the user should still be able to use the mouse as needed. I think REBOL is a very interesting product but it does seem to have many 'holes' in fundemental GUI handling :-), on the one hand it offers the very easy to make GUI interface tool, then stuffs up drop-down-lists, sliders, TAB control, etc. | |
BrettH: 11-Aug-2008 | Nitt Picker !! But you right its a bit clunky at the moment, its only saving grace its that the data entry field remains in a static position !! :-) | |
BenBran: 2-Feb-2009 | I'm working with resizing fields. Setting the size of the field would be a good start. Figuring how to size the text-list on a window resize event would be a bonus. I took a sample from the docs and modifed slightly. REBOL [] displayData: ["A very long entry that will exceed the default width of the field that is displaying it."] view/options/title layout [ lines: text-list 640x480 bold font-size 14 font-name font-fixed data to-block displayData [ ;; not sure how to auto-size the text-list either see-it/text: first lines/picked ;; how do I size this field show see-it ;; maybe its done here ] ;; see-it: info ;; or here? ] [resize] "Test" Thanks again in advance. | |
amacleod: 11-Mar-2009 | It might be a version problem... Using ImageMagick-6.4.9-Q16 I get a different error with version: ImageMagick-6.3.2-Q16 errror: The procedure entry point MagickOpenStream could not be located in dynamic link library CORT_RL_.dll | |
Maxim: 2-Nov-2010 | yep.. but patent reviewers actually do not really research these things for more than one hour... so unless someone challenges it, and the claims are different than other alternate character entry solutions, then they probably have an almost certainty in getting it. it will be very easy to defend also, because its SO simple and doesn't rely on math algorythm just a dirt simple idea which I have never seen before. this being said, its possible that the idea itself isn't new within this research field, but I've never seen this in a commercial form before. | |
Group: I'm new ... Ask any question, and a helpful person will try to answer. [web-public] | ||
Geomol: 15-May-2009 | data: [ [ [] [vlan 0] ] ] Your data has nothing in it. To be able to write data/1/2/vlan: 3 you need to have at least one entry in data, and inside that two entries and inside that the word vlan and a value. | |
Henrik: 16-May-2009 | That's about as fundamental you can get. Now, a more complex layout consists of many faces and this works by grouping them in a tree of objects. In the FACE object, there is an entry called PARENT-FACE, which is how faces are grouped together in a tree. PARENT-FACE can be another face object or a block of face objects. This is fundamentally how a typical View layout works, and you can build a layout like this by hand, by creating each face, setting position and size, color, text, etc. for each face, and put them together in a tree and display them with View. | |
Geomol: 27-Dec-2009 | There is no such way. Some scripts work for many versions of REBOL, some don't. A way to tell is to use the NEEDS entry in the headers. See: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-5.html#section-2 But it's not widely used. | |
Reichart: 3-Jan-2010 | Shame... to much of a barrier to entry. Rather, everyone should be allowed to post anything. A moderator should be able to push stuff to some "sideline" (not delete though). This will simply keep the s/n high. | |
BrianH: 3-Jan-2010 | Reichart, CHAT shouldn't be a barrier to entry. We are trying to make it more accessible. | |
BrianH: 3-Jan-2010 | Yeah, the only barrier to entry into REBOL development will be the need to have a running version of REBOL :) | |
Reichart: 3-Jan-2010 | Reichart, CHAT shouldn't be a barrier to entry. We are trying to make it more accessible. The key to me here is once Carl "ok"s this one thing, then the rest of us can "help". | |
DKnell: 21-Jun-2010 | Thinking about this, it's only natural for any output console window to close after script execution. For running the demos via viewtop though, it would be nice to either have the script wait at the end, ask for user entry, or maybe have a permanent viewtop console window. | |
Henrik: 23-Oct-2011 | You should be able to somewhat safely paste multiline code, but otherwise it's best for single line entry. Also note that the console does not behave identically on different OS'es. | |
Group: Parse ... Discussion of PARSE dialect [web-public] | ||
Henrik: 4-Mar-2008 | if you insert the right datatype in the string with code, the datatype should be recognized automatically. the other syntax is for manual entry. | |
BrianH: 6-Nov-2008 | It might be better to come up with a good set of flexible predefined PARSE rules for data entry that can be reused without much trouble by a variety of programmers. That would solve the problem for everyone without making it difficult for REBOL debugging. | |
shadwolf: 30-Jun-2009 | many answers to that goal can be provided, make parse more friendly ? write documentation about parse ? providing other point of entry to parse comming from other more "fun" technologies like a VID face using parse rules to draw on screen ritch text ? And why not using all of those possible solutions to this problem ? | |
florin: 24-May-2010 | So an entry in the log file starts like this: "[15/May/2010 17:59:56] IP address 190.101.1.10 found in DNS blacklist SpamHaus SBL-XBL..." | |
florin: 24-May-2010 | This finds the IP in the log entry. What if I have two ip addresses and I want to pick them at the same time: ip: [some digits "." some digits "." some digits "." some digits __space__ some digits ...etc] | |
JoshF: 1-Sep-2010 | Hi! Quick question about parsing REBOL code itself... I'm putting together an entry for a contest which is line-constrained (no more than 250 SLOC), so I want to crush my code down as much as possible while still having something that actually looks like code (I know about using the compression, but I want something that looks like a program). I'm starting with Carl's REBOL parser from the cookbook, but it seems to skip the colons for initializers ("x: x + 1" -> [x x + 1]). Here's my current hack of his parser: tokens: copy [] parse read %contest-entry.r blk-rule: [ some [ str: newline | #";" [thru newline | to end] new: (probe copy/part str new) | [#"[" | #"("] (append tokens str/1) blk-rule | [#"]" | #")"] (append tokens str/1) break | skip (set [value new] load/next str append tokens :value) :new ] ] Any ideas why it might be skipping the vital ":" character? Thanks very much! | |
Group: !RebGUI ... A lightweight alternative to VID [web-public] | ||
Robert: 17-Nov-2005 | Shadwolf/Tree-Widget: I used Cyphre's one. The main trouble I found out is changing the tree. A path access structure would be nice. Things like: add-entry tree/1/2/3 "New Entry" or with a named path: my-tree/material/copper/price or so. | |
Pekr: 13-Mar-2006 | Later today I will try to remove registry entry and to install View from the scratch ... | |
Robert: 14-Mar-2006 | Idea: I'm using a lot of data-entry forms in my apps. So getting a data-record from the form and putting a data-record into the form is a common task. It would be great to have a function SAVE-FORM and LOAD-FORM, that collects/restores all necessary widget values. We could specify a SAVE flag via the options facet for each widget? If the SAVE flag is set the widget is collected/restored. | |
Ashley: 19-Mar-2006 | If the mouse is a waste of time for your users, then they don't need a GUI. Just deliver data entry functionality via a console type application. My users [medical] make extensive use of TabletPCs so no mouse / pen is a bit of a deal-breaker for me. ;) the mouse is waste of time, totally ... so you don't use a mouse for file management (File Explorer) or browsing? And of course you don't need one for Paint type operations? Not everyone who uses a computer is doing pure keyed data entry. Different strokes for different folks. Anyway, I'm gradually adding keyboard support to RebGUI as time and REBOL fixes permit; but it's not high on my list of priorities. | |
Ashley: 27-Mar-2006 | The first step to getting the collaborative documentation up is to migrate the widget specific documentation across; and this gives us the opportunity to reformat and expand upon the content. But what template to use? If you have an opinion on this then cruise along to http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/wiki/WidgetList#areaand click "Edit this page" to play around with the content and formating of this single entry (area). Once we are happy with the format I'll use it as a template to bring across all the other widget descriptions. | |
Ashley: 28-Mar-2006 | In the works. I've already restructured the source by removing each widget (from %rebgui-widgets.r) to its own <widget>.r file under a new %widgets/ directory. Next step is to create a link to each source file under its matching WidgetsList Wiki entry. I've also created a monolithic script (striped output from prebol.r) which resides at: http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/rebgui.zip The intention at this stage is to have multiple source files that can be collaboratively worked on, with a "build" every so often to merge them into a single script for easy access / deployment (not everyone will want to grab the source from SVN). The fact that each widget resides in its own source file now makes it very easy to "plugin" additional widgets. | |
Graham: 29-Mar-2006 | I've made a trac defect entry for this issue. | |
Ashley: 2-Apr-2006 | Have about half a dozen, and I make use of 'unview-keep to only have 2 or 3 open at the same time (also useful when multiple data entry screens are open at the same time and the user clicks "commit" ... data is saved and all windows except the Main Menu are closed). | |
Robert: 2-Apr-2006 | Next one: What's the best way to create "user-selection-dependent-layouts"? For example the User select one entry in a drop-down box and depending on the value, a different layout should be shown below the drop-list. | |
Anton: 1-May-2006 | Ashley, I didn't make a history entry in rebgui-widgets.r for my changes, which I have commented next to the changes - would you prefer I did make a history entry ? | |
Robert: 21-May-2006 | table: Can I set the selected row at run-time? I would like to pre-select the first entry. | |
Ashley: 21-May-2006 | Robert Docs: the 'Widgets' section of the 'RebGUI Display User's Guide' is already in the Repository (the WidgetList Wiki entry) ... I'll be removing that section from the guide once all the widget details have been copied across. Feel free to update the Wiki with any widget specific usage notes / instructions. Forward any other doc changes to me and I'll put them in. I plan to eventually move all the docs across to the Wiki, just haven't got around to doing it yet. "do you first want to take a look at the changes or should I just check them in?" ... Just check them in thanks. screenshots: added to the ToDo list widget placement: I'm coming around to the idea that BELOW may be unavoidable, even if undesirable from a design / complexity POV tabbing: Anton about summed it up Volker Type: also used by accessor functions | |
Ashley: 23-May-2006 | Probably better to provide a small example under each widget description. Updated the above Wiki entry. How about that? | |
Robert: 18-Jun-2006 | ATTENTION: rebgui-edit.r was not yet merged. Latest revision doesn't include older changes. We will do this ASAP. But rebgui-edit.r is required in this version otherwise all other changes done by us might not work. FIXED *rebgui/pad: Now only works for horizontal padding. Padding should happen depending on the layout direction left-to-right or top-to-down. Cyphre: now PAD works according to the AFTER settigns. Example: display "Test" [ after 3 field pad 5 field pad 5 field pad 5 field pad 5 field pad 5 field ] Robert,let me know if it works like you wanted. FIXED *group-box: When setting a new title group-box/text: "new-title" the surounding frame needs to be adjusted to the new text-width. FIXED *drop-tree: When selecting different quick-access buttons directly one after the other, the drop-tree shouldn't close FIXED *drop-tree: Highlighting the pressed quick-access button with green, the hovered one as is in orange. To give user visial feedback. FIXED *general: a way to sepcify "align ['left]" for all further widgets to avoide repeation. Idea: Add disaply keywords: left, right, center Cyphre: added keyword TEXT-ALIGN left/right/center. Example: display "Test" [ text-align right after 3 t: text 20 "test 1" field "test 2" field "test 3" text-align left field "test 4" field "test 5" field "test 6" ] FIXED *drop-list: an option that will show the list layered above everything (like the tree list of drop-tree). Cyphre: added drop-list/popup-mode: 'inside(default) or 'outside note: the same works for drop-tree FIXED *drop-tree: changing state of the drop-tree (a new entry was selected) should only be done if the ACTION code returns TRUE. Otherwise the old state is kept, the drop-tree is closed and nothing happens. This allows the code to check for some pre-conditions before changing the state, and give some feedback to the user. Much like the on-unfocus functionality of RebGUI. FIXED *drop-tree: pressing the quick-access numbers doesn't work any more as the drop-tree closes now if the mouse is clicked outside the drop-tree FIXED *table: table/selected returns NONE if the table is empty and no record is selected. If there was one recrod selected at any time, than table/selected returns [none none <repeated for number of columns>]. If not row is selected at any time, table/selected should just return NONE. FIXED *table: If a table is re-used in that the table is reused with code like: insert clear table/data [...] people/redraw and there was a row selected before, than the internal state is still in "row selected" but the new row isn't highlighted. Here internal state and GUI don't match. FIXED *drop-tree: clicking a "+/-" in the tree only open/closes the tree without calling the action for the node FIXED *drop-tree: Re-add whole line selection and hovering functionality (so that mouse does not have to be over text) FIXED *drop-tree: Add an option to get big fast-selction keys aligned left-to-right Cyphre: added drop-tree/expander-mode: 'big(default) or 'small FIXED *button: Add an option to disable a button my-button/active: true/false, if disabled the button is drawn greyed-out Cyphre: usage is my-button/active: true/false show my-button FIXED *field: Support number datatypes for TEXT so that things like field-a/text + field-b/text can be used Cyphre: you need to set field/edit-mode: 'numbers to activate this behaviour for field(othervise it works like a normal field) 2nd implementation uses own styel: number-field FIXED *radio-group: Add an API that allows to provide a new DATA specification block at runtime or a way to alter the text of the radio fields at runtime. Cyphre: now you can just change the data content and do show on the radio-group like: my-radio-group/data: ["item1" "item2" "item3" "item4"] show my-radio-group Note that it won't react on change of number of items. Just change of texts. FIXED *radio-group: Add a way to select one radio field at run-time added accesor select-item item [integer!] usage: my-radio-group/select-item 2 show my-radio-group note: you can get the selected item using my-radio-group/picked, you can get the text of selected item using my-radio-group/selected FIXED *drop-tree/grey-out: Can it be done in that we only show the text in a light grey instead of black? Like Windows does it. Cyphre: now the masked text is light grey FIXED *on-focus / on-unfocus: If FALSE is return from the ACTION and the user clicked somewhere on the screen, the focus is still in the "field" but no cursor bar is visible FIXED *drop-list: IIRC in your widgets it was possible to start typing and the selection list was filtered. A mandatory feature for the drop-list :-)) Cyphre: added drop-list/editable? flag to enable/disable editing of the drop-list field also added drop-list/auto-fill? flag which enables automatic text filterin from the selection list FIXED *general: add hover tooltip help option to every widget (global patch) Cyphre: added TOOL-TIP facet to rebface object. If TOOL-TIP is set to string! value a tooltip is shown when mouseover such widget. example: display "test" [ button "press me" tool-tip "press this button to continue" ] FIXED*drop-list: proivde a much better selection-list opening algorithm especially for long lists. Open upward, downward, middle like so that as much entries are shown for the given screen space. And an option that will show the list layered above everything (like the tree list of drop-tree). Cyphre: -added droplist/lines - can be 'auto (default) or integer! to force number of shown lines in droplist -added droplist/droplist-mode - can be 'auto (default) 'upward, 'downward or 'middle to force way how the list is popped up you can use various combination of those settings. FIXED*table: Add an API that allows to select a row at run-time. Cyphre: Usage is for example: my-table/select-row 5 show my-table FIXED*table: Add an API to table that allows to change the columns layout at runtime: my-table/reset ["Column 1" left 0.25 "Column2" center 0.75] Cyphre: I added the functionality byt the API call is my-table/set-columns ["Column 1" left 0.25 "Column2" center 0.75] FIXED*drop-list: fire action only if selection was made/changed, at the moment action fires if clicked on field too FIXED*general: on-un/focus should be fired if user clicks an other widget, not only if carets leaves the widget when TAB is pressed FIXED*table: moving bar up/down with keyboard should fire click-action, alternativ: pressing RETURN can fire click action FIXED*table: align header text like data (left, center, right) at the moment always left FIXED*table: TRAC #21 FiXED*TRAC #5 Cyphre: should be fixed but please test it and let me know. FIXED*TRAC #6 | |
Normand: 30-Jun-2006 | When there is text in a field and we do the focus on it, then the text is shaded black. Is there a command where, instead of shaded region, the focus is simply the insertion point placed before the string in the field. The shaded region presumes that we will replace it all with a new value. An insertion point suggest that we will correct the entry. The difference is that we do not have to systematically hit a left arrow key first, to correct the field. | |
Robert: 15-Jul-2006 | I want to add a row to a table but I don't want to keep a special block containing all the table values. How to do it? I only can get one entry added and than it's reused. Looks like some sharing is happening. | |
Ashley: 9-Dec-2006 | Build#48 committed to SVN, incorporating Robert's/Cyphre's extensive changes ((including new chart, drop-tree, grid, input-grid & panel widgets). Panel & Input-Grid added to %tour.r. These new widgets (apart from panel) have an impressive range of options/features ... but scant documentation or usage examples. If Robert/Cyphre could post a few examples here that would help. If anyone reads the source code and figures something out then an entry or two here would be appreciated: http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/wiki/WidgetList | |
Gregg: 5-Apr-2007 | I spent a lot of time working on that kind of thing for VB, and also used some commercial VBX/OCX packages that included them. Our target audience was data entry operators in call centers and, while this is what the internal analysts and user contacts said was what they wanted, the actual users hated it; it just got in their way. Asking around informally, I found that most users didn't care for them, while techies thought it was a great idea. | |
Group: DevCon2005 ... DevCon 2005 [web-public] | ||
Terry: 3-Oct-2005 | The more I toy with AJAX, the more disinterested I become with desktop apps. I think client/server is the future now.. and apparently so does Google.. they're buying up tons of dark fibre and wireless 'last mile' solutions.. some have speculated that they plan on pushing apps to the end user.. and apparently for free http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000853054453/ | |
Group: Rebol School ... Rebol School [web-public] | ||
Vladimir: 27-Mar-2009 | Yes.... for example I used Visual Fox pro a lot... and its great for stuff like that... It has Separate concepts like Database, Data entry forms, Print reports etc.... | |
Vladimir: 27-Mar-2009 | Henrik: What did you mean by generating code? When I started writing applications that requiered data entry, I always first wrote an object that takes text as input (something like this: "'Name' c20 'Address' c30 'Town' c30) and displays modal dialog with those fields, OK and Cancel buttons, and all the logic that is needed... So all my data entry dialogs looked and worked the same and all that usually fit in one screen of code.... | |
Gregg: 14-Apr-2010 | I've done the same thing as Max, and if there is just one refinement, I'll still use EITHER. If you have a scenario where there's an entry point that delegates work and requires multiple options, consider making it a dialected func. | |
BrianH: 12-Jul-2011 | I worked on a project that failed because it depended on teaching parsing to unskilled data entry people - not my idea, and I couldn't explain to the people in charge why it was a bad one, because even teaching that was hard. It would be great if it were otherwise. | |
BrianH: 12-Jul-2011 | Actually, it depended on unskilled data entry people being able to write parse specs without being taught - even worse. | |
Group: Tech News ... Interesting technology [web-public] | ||
Graham: 11-Jul-2009 | Submitted my Amazon competition entry ... maybe I can win another $25 of credits again though I haven't used up the last $25 i got from them 2 years ago! | |
Sunanda: 27-Apr-2010 | Nice analysis of the recent attack on apache.org: https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_04_09_2010 | |
Graham: 14-Aug-2010 | Looks like the ability to sue Google was one of the things Sun was selling to Oracle http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/the_shit_finally_hits_the | |
GrahamC: 6-Jan-2011 | you have to create your own market . .if there is an easy entry to surface computing ... let's make Rebol it | |
GrahamC: 29-Sep-2011 | If they can lower the barrier to entry ... then I'm all for this. | |
Group: !REBOL3-OLD1 ... [web-public] | ||
Sunanda: 10-Aug-2007 | A new blog entry -- and related to R3 too :-) http://www.rebol.net/r3blogs/0096.html | |
Brock: 9-Oct-2007 | By Blog entry, we aren't asking for a crafter piece of literature. Just a heads up on direction changes and very quick progress statement. One or two sentences every couple of weeks would likely due the job. | |
Henrik: 10-Oct-2007 | Don't know if this is interesting to you, but: http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/files/082390c9260a1a8ce96cedddd8aad803-83.html#unique-entry-id-83 :-) | |
Henrik: 25-Jun-2008 | hey, there's even a comment on the wildfire blog entry from Carl that says: "Sorry that I do not have time to do more -- too busy with work (REBOL Tech)." | |
Chris: 8-Jul-2008 | The tough thing to appreciate is that VID is a general-purpose entry/mid-level dialect. R2/VID has been in the wild for 6yrs(?) now and we have certainly gone through periods of isolating key weaknesses, but we all have a tendency to have had starry-eyed visions for what VID should be. The practical gets mixed in with the possibility when it's time for action. I think the community would be better served with a strong VID alternative (not as a slight to RebGUI which does very well acheiving its stated aims) not bound by Carl's constraints for the entry level language, and open (as in open) source with very clear aims. It has to be independent and perhaps needs to span R2 and R3, at least initially. We have the capabilities, resources and talent to do it, but instead try to hammer these ideas into VID. This isn't intended to be a rallying cry -- it's just my assessment based on observation and involvement. Such an undertaking would have inevitable difficulty overcoming the differing visions of interested parties. Conversely, it's within us to create an enduring, enviable framework... | |
Chris: 24-Jul-2008 | My goal with QM is to deliver a high-level entry point for developing web applications (and a fledgling sister project in app development) that gets you started quickly, reduces the quirk quotient, structures the environment, and is above all expressive. I see this as the hook. Depth comes with initial success... | |
shadwolf: 8-Aug-2008 | the formula I use in the patch is (font-size of the last entry in the char table / 2) -1 | |
PeterWood: 14-Aug-2008 | No Rebol3 Frontline blog entry for 57 days No Rebol3 updates to Docbase for 70 days Grape picking season approaching | |
BrettH: 17-Aug-2008 | Having a play with REBOL3, and after modifying the sliding cat example to display data entry areas instead in the scroll-panel, I find that I cannot move to the 'next' field either by using TAB or CR What the 'secret' keystroke required ??? ;; =============================== rebol ["field-scroller.r"] view [ h1 "Modified Scrolling (SCROLL-PANEL and SCROLLER)" group 2 [ tight bottom right ; stick the panel to the scrollers scroll-panel 150x200 [ datain: group 2 [ label "fld 1 " area fld1: label "fld 2 " area fld2: label "fld 11 " area fld1: label "fld 21 " area fld2: label "fld 12 " area fld1: label "fld 22 " area fld2: label "fld 13 " area fld1: label "fld 23 " area fld2: label "fld 14 " area fld1: label "fld 24 " area fld2: ] ] tight only bottom right scroller 20x200 attach ; attach scroller and scroll-panel tight only top right scroller 150x20 attach -3 ; attach with scroll-panel ] ] ;;================================================= | |
BrettH: 17-Aug-2008 | So I can't make any data-entry type forms yet ! When is Tab/Shigt Tab expected to be implemented ? Thanks | |
PeterWood: 18-Oct-2008 | From re-reading the Docbase page, it seems that both panels and groups may be visible as they have styles: Panels are implemented with the panel and group styles. You will use these two styles together to create a wide range of layouts. I don't think that I'll try to clarify the DocBase entry just yet though. |
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