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what I want to do is feed date data and let the graph program automatically 
generate the x-axis labels.

Brian and Pekr, you can easily define where your foreign! value (garbage) 
would start, but you cannot define in a *general* way where it should 
end. You can only define that on specific cases and with specific 
rules. That's Gabriele's point. 


For example, let's see how an invalid input could be parsed using 
a theoretical foreign! type (represented below as quoted string for 
easier reading).

Test input string to parse: "123 abc 4c5.6"

Possible alternative outputs from a relaxed LOAD:

[123 abc "4c5.6"]
[123 abc 4 "c5.6"]
[123 abc 4 c5.6]
[123 abc 4 c 5.6]
[123 abc "4c" 5.6]
...

Question: which one is the correct output that LOAD should produce?

Answer: you can't know until you ask me what I wanted to express.


You cannot expect from LOAD to know how to handle invalid data (and 
to determine where it ends), the best thing LOAD can do is to stop 
on syntax error. If you have hints or rules on how should foreign 
be parsed, then write some parse rules and use string! parsing.


LOAD/else is a nice REP, but again it can only work on specific data. 
You cannot feed it with *any* data and expect it to work.

Maybe R can feed it into qtask ... ?

Good progress, then stuck again. I can get one file transferred, 
but I don't know how to transfer the following files. This is the 
server (put it in an empty folder): 

rebol []

print ["This program RECEIVES files sent by send-files-tcp." newline]
port-num: request-text/title/default "Port Number: " "2006"
url: to-url rejoin ["tcp://:" port-num]
received-file: copy first open/binary url
write %file-names decompress received-file
files: load %file-names
foreach file files [

    received-file: copy url ;<======== HOW DO I FEED IN THE NEXT FILE?
    write/binary file received-file
    print ["Successfully received file: " file]
]

ask "The files transfer is complete. Press <Enter> to close."

looks close , but not right though as if i feed it one of the first 
two pairs, it should display one of the second pairs

Ah, I thought you would feed it 0x0 to get, e.g., the UL corner.

I'm not fair using the word "ignorance". I don't think, you are. 
I base my conclusion on the following:


See the password generator as a black box, that you feed with an 
integer, and out come a password. The integer input has 2 ** 32 different 
combinations and is used for the random/seed. Out come a password, 
and there can only be 2 ** 32 different passwords coming out at most. 
It doesn't matter, how the algorithm is constructed, if you put time 
delay in, call random or random/seed more than once, etc, as long 
as you don't get other input as the first integer. This is basic 
in information theory. And it's related to the determinism in digital 
computing.

Why restricting the computer to 32bits input only, when you can feed 
it with gigabits of inputs ? That's not a fair comparaison.

In my password generator, how would you feed it with more input?

if you feed a human a 32 bit int and ask him/her to get you back 
a password, and it has to give you the same password for the same 
int, then how many password would the user give you?

Robert, you're mentioning Excel, so you're probably trying to do 
ALT+RETURN hard line-breaks with Excel thru comlib?

Maybe you can use the actual character code that Excel uses whenever 
one presses Alt+Enter. The web says Excel just inserts a line feed 
#"^/", have you tried that?

If anyone using this language actually cares about communicating 
with other beings - the Rebol tag on Stackoverflow is a feed you 
can add to your reader - http://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=rebol&sort=newest

Think of iterated function as another way of "show". Only that this 
show is called multiple times on a real show. One time for each row. 
so you can feed different data (and offsets!). Looks like multiple 
faces, needs space for one.

I would have thought, that it was something about feeding a new event 
into the system with the face as a target. That is: creating a entirely 
new event and feed it into the event system.

For those that want to set up there own site, OK, but then what they 
should do is feed an RSS to the central site.

But in postscript, it ignores the line feed, carriage returns :(

You've already seen my psd2draw.r script .. I just feed the same 
block thru my ps dialect to get the postsrcript and write that to 
a file.

Yeah, just feed the anim data [(first gif) (second gif) (third gif) 
...] for how many frames there are.  :)

Hmm.. I think the image padding might be outside the responsibility 
of an auto-crop function. Its job is to remove stuff, not add. It's 
probably better to write a small generalised function to do the padding 
(which could be useful elsewhere) and just feed the result of the 
auto-crop to it.

This is not obvious with VID, because you might build such a layout 
in a special setup, but in the VID Extension Kit, you have face constructs. 
A face construct is simply a style that accepts a particular dialect 
as input. The dialect is parsed into VID which then in turn generates 
an internal face tree. This means you can build styles that do something 
like:

view layout [
	paper [
		size a4
		dpi 300
		at 20x20 image bay.jpg
	]
]


The point is that every time you feed the paper new data, using SET-FACE, 
it's re-rendered from scratch using VID.


You can also build very complicated list views that dramatically 
change appearance and number of faces, every time you feed it new 
data.

this may bot be a well formed thought but ... the ability to directly 
feed a port into parse

Would someone please give me an example of how to feed data from 
a sqlite db into a rebgui table?

there were somethings I could not do in rebgui so I would switch 
to using ViD in the same application

 ... there shouldn't be any. Both VID are RebGUI are just "face factories" 
 ... feed them a spec and they produce a face object. All other functionality 
 is neither VID nor RebGUI specific. I get a lot of emails asking 
 "how do I do x in RebGUI", but 99% of them are really "how do I do 
 x in REBOL", or, "how do I use the SDK to do x" type questions.

I use VID to do a print preview ... using a draw dialect

 ...RebGUI's use of the effect facet (and hence draw) is no different 
 to VID's. Also note that 'draw is available as a native from the 
 console (i.e. you don't event need VID or RebGUI to use it).

better to feed the table from a sql query, or another function that 
holds all the data

So, I can feed this widget 18,000 entries which I don't think you 
can with the edit-list.

Shame about no feed from Italy ...


Petr .... webcam in Rebol may be a bit ambitious .... we cant even 
get access to real time sound. !

I wish you had the feed,  it is a real shame this is so hard to make 
happen!

may thanks reichart for this feed !

Is there an easy way to suppress a carriage return and line feed 
when hitting the enter button?

For example:  I'd like to be able to do this:
Guess # 1:  XXX <enter> "  Nope, too high, guess lower"
Guess # 2: YYY <enter> "  Nope, too low, guess higher" ...

Can this be done with the ASK somehow?

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/13/google-buzz-privacy-update/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Techcrunch+(TechCrunch)&utm_content=FaceBook

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/10/13/0328230/Dennis-Ritchie-Creator-of-C-Programming-Language-Passed-Away?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29

WebOS goes open source:


http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/09/1857254/hp-making-webos-open-source?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkuser&utm_medium=feed

Any one wishing to monitor the advancement of orca on a daily basis 
can suscribe to this RSS feed.

http://trac.geekisp.com/orca/timeline?milestone=on&ticket=on&changeset=on&wiki=on&max=50&daysback=90&format=rss

I'm personally more interested in using Windows printing directly 
and feed data to that. I don't know yet though how that works, but 
I'll be working on a solution for that for R3.

More screenshots: http://www.rebol.net/wiki/GUI_Basics


Carl write, it's a prototype skin, and he uses jpeg (with artefacs), 
so those are probably just to feed the hungry ones.

Some status (not much since Pekr told most of this):


- Improved console presentation (sounds so Windows-like, doesn't 
it? :-)) in the latest R3 alpha. http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/r3/gui/178.png

- Carl wants to do a larger release of R3 "soon". This involves a 
merge of my skin or parts of it. I'm not sure everything you see 
in screenshots can go in, because those parts are not clean enough.
- Still working on RebDev.

- Carl noted that RebDev helped him find many bugs in R3. Some of 
those are fixed.

- GUI has not progressed for a couple of weeks as I'm working on 
a big R2 project. I will get a few days in January to help, but I 
won't get more time until mid-March at best.
- Some Devbase submitted changes and fixes are added to R3.

The intended priority for RebDev front-ends is:

1. R3 Shell (doing this now)
2. HTML mobile (doing this now)
3. R3 GUI
4. HTML pretty
5. R2 Shell
6. RSS feed
7. Whatever people want to do.

besides that - line feed is pretty common delimiter, whereas blocks 
are only REBOL facility. I think it belongs to higher level parsers 
(decoders)

Feed.

This proposed datatype looks quite complex. Are you sure it's wise 
to add it to Rebol? Doesn't this just feed into lobbying for the 
user datatype? I might first implement your counter as mezzanine, 
solve the problem you have at hand, then maybe try to imagine how 
it could be specified using a user datatype...

maybe the RSS feed should be HTML?

I have no knowledge of how the reader interprets the rss, but its 
the only feed of 20 which shows up this way, which is not very conducive 
or complementary

I was going to compare the output of his feed to that of Monologue, 
and make it match. Monologue works in Google Reader.

you forget that many of us actually use REBOL to feed our families 
 ;-)


R3 won't allow that for me until at least 6 months... and that's 
if the extension get extended enough.  otherwise, I have *Absolutely* 
no incentive to move to R3 right now.

c: so the modules in rebol will works like the external libraries 
in c langagues or java ? require "thismodule" and then it works? 
but then how i'm sure the modules i need are loaded when i script?

one of the good point in rebol was anything was available anytime 
and you didn't had to care about what module is load in your context 
or not...  that was a good thing at least for people like that starts 
projet  with a bare skeleton and then feed the skeleton to make it 
grow

Btw, a RSS feed is available for the Cheyenne blog.

basically not enough food to feed other indians.

is there any solution or idea for multiple feeding a running console 
app
started via call/wait/input/output ?
have tried a pass a open port but no luck. the console needs more
than one command to work properly. the ideal solution would be to

hold the console app permanently open, feed it via write-io or (something
like this) and parse the output. any hint?

If you feed a url to a function, the only thing you really need to 
dehex is the username and password... nothing else

Personaly I think putting out some test builds is always a good thing, 
 and the prudent thing to to is to make them available for the most 
popular platforms, best chance of someone doing something that results 
in useful feed back. unfortunatly as a unpopular platform user that 
means I am out.

an RSS feed per bug

I'm planning to add a customizable RSS feed for each ticket for managing 
notifications. I would like also to remind everyone of the CureCode 
API that enable any REBOL coder to easily build any kind of clients 
(making a tool that checks on some tickets changes should be trivial). 
See http://rebol.net/wiki/CureCode#API_documentation

Btw, I've also thought about adding a XMPP interface for sending 
notifications directly to your favorite Jabber-compatible instant 
messenger. Maybe better than a RSS feed, I guess more people are 
using an IM client than a RSS client.

I made the following changes on my dev instance of CureCode:

	o FEAT: Added the ability to move tickets between projects.
	o FEAT: New search field: "User".
	o FEAT: New isolated search field: "Commented by".
	o FEAT: RSS feed added for projects changes.
	
	o FIX: double line breaks in PRE tags in comments removed.
	o FIX: stats bar graphs were never displaying per-project stats.


I'll put it online tomorrow. If I missed an important bug to fix, 
let me know.

Btw, RSS notifications can be accessed from the RSS icon on the upper-right 
corner of tickets list and tickets details page. Default polling 
delays are provided in the RSS feeds, but if your looking for long-term 
changes on a given ticket, I recommend you to set your RSS reader 
polling delay to 24h for the tickets feed.

Yeah, we better get the event queue working, we have a lot of little 
mouths to feed :)

and in that hundred of fanatics you have only 10 to 20 guys participating 
to the REBOL project actively ... personally i don't feel motivated 
to help apporting my know how to a project that will feed someone 
else without retribution i think as american you understand my point 
buissness is buissness ... I don't work for free for a project that 
will bring money to someone else.. that's plain and simple ... And 
it will be different if it was organised as a foundation people give 
the money they want and then the monney is splitted to remunerate 
the contributions according to their importance ...

let's take an example could a video stream be displayed by a rebol/moonlight 
thing ? using rebol natural easy network  layer to feed the moonlight 
extension for displyaing at screen ?

wasn't carl some moth ago that was saying the rebol was a commercial 
faillure and that he needed tto get a real work to feed his familly 
?

rebol shrink  this is a fact too look how much brillant things were 
abandonned in those past 5 years sacrificed on the altar of progress 
to feed r3. But r3 is it really a progress ... I like some of the 
things in it ... as much as I could see them when Carl presented 
them  like the new trace function but sincerely I never used it ... 
and sincerely I never used r3 ... I don't even understand why the 
r2 console was abandonned ... and replaced by the cheapest possible 
less elegant solution ...

Is there a live feed ?

The live feed is here

In fact, support for incremental compilation is almost done, just 
needs testing/debugging. With that, you could feed the compiler with 
several sources while preserving its internal states and ask to "finalize" 
the job on the last one (means link the project).

Doc - thanks for adding Twitter feed directly to RED website :-)

I think that it would be possible to have the following:
	
	print value   				 ;; automatic line feed
	print [value value lf]			;; no autmatic line feed

Problem is it would confuse newcomers no end.

FEAT: added `print-line` function to runtime, with `??` as alias. 
Works like `print`, but adds a line-feed character at end.
 

https://github.com/dockimbel/Red/commit/82099d117e790859606697c33f90c35ef87cf5b6