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Has anyone here worked with OAuth and/or the etzy.com API in REBOL? 
 I'm currently looking through Christopher Ross-Gill's OAuth implementation 
for Twitter, and interested in writing a REBOL app using the etzy.com 
API.  I understand most of it, but don't get the "oauth_signature" 
spec.  Don't have much time for this, so would like to offer some 
$$$ for anyone able to instruct and or provide help implementing 
the etsy API.  Email reverse "g r o  tod  z r a t i u g  ta  codmorf"

I'll finish my new CMS first, or I should say publishing system together 
with the scripts I put on rebol.org lately. Then I will be able to 
publish code and story easier within my pages. I don't want the massive 
make-doc-pro and makedoc2 isn't my flavor. The ancient version from 
Chris Ross-Gill looks good but has some choices I dislike. So I am 
struggling with it too make it easy to use and with it I want to 
be able to generate a pdf version using Gabriele's pdf-maker script.

I wrote a tutorial that makes use of Chris Ross-Gill's Etsy.r module: 
 http://re-bol.com/etsy_api_tutorial.htmlThe focus of this one 
is all about helping the Etsy API developer team, but by necessity, 
it teaches all the REBOL basics, along with all the absolute beginner 
concepts.  I'm hoping the Etsy guys will write a blog post about 
it and help drive some more traffic toward REBOL :)

Thanks to Chris Ross-Gill, HostileFork and Peter Wood for reporting 
this issue.

On the site from Chriss Ross-Gill there is a way to make one bundle

Does anyone know where I can find the '%gui.r' in the 'do %gui.r' 
line of this program?

http://reb4.me/r/arrow-RebGUI-port


I have searched Christopher Ross-Gill's website and don't see it 
or where to find it.

Thank you Geomol. I saw AltXML from Christopher Ross-Gill, I'll try 
both. Thanks.

The structure of MD since v2 is a separation of scanner and emitter. 
'scan-doc will break text into a block of [style content] pairs. 
'gen-doc will take that block and turn it into something, most commonly 
HTML.


The features of your doc - using your ==+, ==#, etc. are in the spec 
of the parser. Loosely explained, the parser's rule 'resets' when 
it encounters a newline.  It defines a few paragraph types that copies 
chunks of text (including 'paragraph that consumes text AND single 
newlines).  The rest of the rule determines the paragraph style and 
expected paragraph type:

  "===" text-line (emit sect1 text)

Could just as easily be:

  "==+" paragraph (emit my-bold-paragraph para)



The way a document is presented is all in the emitter. Seems this 
is where you seem to be yearning for most control. My first motivation 
using MakeDoc was stripping it of any styles - I just wanted a minimum 
of HTML markup that could be embedded and properly moulded by CSS. 
In my script above, I iterate through the [style content] list and 
use 'switch to determine how to handle each, this should be sufficient 
for documents without any complexity. It's really then just a case 
of modifying the HTML that is emitted.



Example of script used in RSP (exposes [escape-html scan-doc gen-doc]):


  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ross-gill.com/styles/anywhere.css">
  <% do http://reb4.me/r/xhtml%>

  <pre><code><%= mold doc: scan-doc some-input-text %></code></pre>
  <%= gen-doc doc %>

How it looks depends on the stylesheet you use.

And if you like -- you can start here: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/anim/

This is a vanilla site heavily customised by Chris

http://www.ross-gill.com/

Gabriele; don't use that loadall, it's broken - badly broken.  Chris 
Ross-Gill posted a link to a much better load-junk, but his version 
does weird things with "$10,000,000.00" and still doesn't handle 
the recursion required by a real REBOL load.  In defense of us both, 
they were quick jobs posted only as examples.   I'm still unclear 
why the addition of foreign! data would break REBOL.  I'm of the 
opinion it would increase REBOL usabilty, by an order of magnitude 
for people not programmers by nature, and open up entirely new fields 
of endeavour, not make it impossible for professionals to write awesome, 
concise code as they do today.   But ... as you can see from that 
hack job of loadall, I'll defer to gurus.

replying to (http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altwebform.r)

As far as I can make out, Google Charts API works in R3 as well. 
 Project page:
http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Google_Charts_and_REBOL


Other marker types: line, arrow, cross, diamond, rectangle, diamond, 
square, horizontal lines, x.


They all follow the same basic structure: name, opt color, index, 
opt points, size, z-index.  See the page on Compound Charts for more 
info:


http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/compound_charts.html

I think MacRoman: http://www.ross-gill.com/techniques/entities/mac/

This is one reason I wrote my files:// protocol -- http://www.ross-gill.com/r/sandbox.html
(need to add to the library).

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/btn-style-old.r-- this is an earlier 
version of my xp-themed btn style.

; Yep, 'merge instructs the effects engine to compose effects using 
underlying faces:
dots: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/grid-teal.png
img: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/find-file.png
view center-face layout [
    backtile dots
    image img
    image img effect [blur blur blur]
    image img effect [merge blur blur blur]
]

I use this style sheet for my colour code: http://www.ross-gill.com/styles/rebol-code.css

; Here's a quickie:
ctx-busy: context load http://www.ross-gill.com/r/busy-style.r

view center-face layout [backcolor snow origin 200x150 busy true 
coal]

; Similar idea -- copied the Apple busy style:

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/busy-style.r
view layout [bsy: busy black do [set-face bsy true]]

Chris Ross-Gill might know. He's done a number of color adjustment 
bits.

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/hsv-lab.r

I'm using Christopher Ross-Gill's animation style. I wrote a little 
function to convert an animated gif to an image file that the style 
can use....

Kaj, I thought about doing something like that but how do you kill 
the process from rebol?

When I examine the functions in altjson.r and altwebform.r written 
by Christopher Ross-Gill, I see function definitions like below:


load-json: use [...<lots of words>...] [... <lots of definitions 
etc.> func [...] ]


is this method for hiding details in function body? or to make the 
function body cleaner?

that is not a good thing, to have several incompatible variants imo 
... that is why there is make-doc project, which should produce make-doc3, 
open enough, allowing still the same level of easy of use, why otoh 
providing nicely formatted output ... I like what Chris did at Ross-gill.com, 
you can see output using two different .css files. Well, delete them 
and it will still work, even without .css!

If you want a renderer and text box on the same page, just throw 
a wrapper around http://www.ross-gill.com/make-doc/and have the 
results show in an i-frame. piece of cake

This is a modified version of the outputter (embedded -- no template, 
no toc).  It does a full parse of each line: http://www.ross-gill.com/w/xhtml/xhtml.html

Done -- http://www.ross-gill.com/make-doc/

hmm, I wonder how do you aproach printing .... I use Chris' online 
make-doc version at ross-gill.com, and it has strange metrics with 
IE, not to mention Mozilla - it screwes it up (if I want to have 
it with background) ... but maybe the cause is my pdf printer driver 
...

Petr, I have a copy with some notes here:
http://www.ross-gill.com/techniques/rsp/

I've been toying with this to obtain a very parsable "dialect" -- 
my goal being to scrape live game updates from a certain sports web 
site (for personal use, natch).  It's reliant on 'parse-xml though, 
so ymmv....

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/scrape.r
probe load-xml some-xml

First pass at converting my AltXML to R3: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/r3xml.r
-- almost a literal translation, doesn't yet utilise new  parse features...

rfc: I have a (not so) little function that attempts to match a block 
of values to a given specification.  Example:

	>> probe match [%image.png :red 300x100 /old][
	[	file: file! | url!
	[	size: opt pair!
	[	attributes: any get-word! | refinement!
	[	]
	make object! [
		file: %image.png
		size: 300x100
		attributes: [:red /old]
	]


There's not much to the rules, they are -- one (default), opt (zero 
or one), any (zero or many), some (many).  If they don't match, they 
return an error.  Any suggestions?  Optimizations?

	http://www.ross-gill.com/r/match.r

ross-gill - Chris' site ...

With QM, I use QuickTags (integrated into RSP or standalone) to build 
the form elements, and then wrap common constructs in functions.for 
data-driven forms.  It's not as pure as say, Henrik's HTML dialect, 
but perhaps has the flexibility of being at markup level.

http://www.ross-gill.com/page/QuickTags


Alternatively I have a make-doc dialect (somewhat rough) that I use 
for forms on my site wiki.

http://2008.rebolconf.info/on/!Edit_Form?format=raw

Introducing QuarterMaster: Yet Another Web Framework that I'm probably 
going to have to take time to document properly: http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


In short, it is designed around the MVC pattern.  It is open source 
(license tbd).  Tries to be lightweight, but could use some work. 
 Tries to be as thin a wrapper to Rebol (/Core, /Base, whatever) 
while providing key functions for creating web sites/applications. 
 Includes a flat-file dbms out the box, which generally works.  Currently 
coded to work with Apache (needs mod-rewrite and 'request-uri' env 
variable), but should eventually be httpd agnostic.  Please try, 
please test.  I will answer all and every question (within reason). 
 All suggestions considered with an open mind...

Group: !QM

Using QM with Cheyenne -- instructions now included in the documentation:
http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/introduction.html


All mod-QM should do is intercept 404s and redirect the request to 
QM.  I don't think this affects existing setups (please tell me if 
I'm wrong).  QM 404s by default are handled in files://system/views/errors/notfound.rsp

<-QM-> Version 0.2.1 -- new controllers; file upload; reorganised 
for better console-running mode; (hopefully) better namespace handling; 
user and session handling ready

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/

Tested on Apache.  Tested briefly on Cheyenne.

<-QM-> Version 0.3.1

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


After much wrestling with what the Model (M-V-C) should be, I have 
settled on an extensible Model system designed as an intuitive implementation 
of persistent objects.  Also, pagination, some extra helpers and 
some tweaks here and there.  QM grows, but has not yet reached the 
point of optimisation.  More to follow in the !QM group...

< QM > Version 0.3.2

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


This release reworks the Controller engine, giving more flexibility 
in defining the Controller dialect.  The fruit of this is the 'protect 
directive that allows you to evaluate preconditions before executing 
an action.  More to follow in the !QM group...

< QM > Version 0.3.5

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Additions: this release includes a crude search facility within RoughCut. 
 Also included are some minor changes related to the User Management 
and Blog (to be published) patterns.

< QM > Version 0.3.7

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


QuickTags overhaul: now uses 'match dialect parser (this may result 
in incompatibilities).  Also, the 'root' space is dropped in favour 
of 'support' to reference external modules.

< QM > Version 0.3.7

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Fixed some Cheyenne glitches, works now with .exe version (see QuickStart 
guide).

< QM > Version 0.3.9

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Fixes a context issue with QuickTags (bug fix).  Minor change to 
the Cheyenne 'request/content' handling (bug fix).  And thanks to 
Ammon for giving it testdrive, helps greatly in sorting out priorities!

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altwebform.r

[load-webform to-webform]


Loads/serializes data in application/x-www-form-urlencoded format 
allowing for nested values:

	>> load-webform "a.b=c"
	== [a [b "c"]]


Allows more structured data form otherwise 2d web form data  Or can 
simply be used to encode 2d data for 'rest' services.  Extracted 
from QM.

Some core Twitter API functions: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/twitter.html

	? twitter
	tw: twitter/find #REBOL
	twitter/as "rgrebol" "****"
	fr: twitter/friends
	new: twitter/update "Now"


Results are XML objects - see http://bit.ly/xml_rebol(probe result/tree 
for structure).  Will add more at some point.

http://twitter.com/rgrebol

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/color-code.r

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/color-code.html- should now work with 
R3

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/r3webform.html<- R3 version of alt-webform 
(see 9/21)

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=metadb.r- Quick and dirty 
associative database (R2 only):

	write meta/Chris/first "Christopher"
	read meta/Chris/last
	person: [user "Chris" first "Christopher" last "Ross-Gill"]
	write meta/(person/user)/last person/last
	write meta/Chris/added now
	read meta/(person/user)

Hmm, example faulty, should read:

	write meta/Chris/first "Christopher"
	read meta/Chris/first
	person: [user "Chris" first "Christopher" last "Ross-Gill"]
	write meta/(person/user)/last person/last
	write meta/Chris/added now
	read meta/(person/user)

R3 version: http://ross-gill.com/r/r3metadb.r


Only caveat is that you are limited to writing strings, blocks and 
binary, so you can do the following in R2 but not R3:

	write meta/Chris/home http://www.ross-gill.com/

From a suggestion by Christopher Ross-Gill (thanks Chris!):


-- REBOL.org's RSS feed now has the most recent posts from the AltME 
REBOL3 world

-- You can also see the most recent posts on the website, via this 
link:
    http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent


By default, both show the most recent 100 posts. You can set your 
own value between 0 and 255 -- more details below.


RSS FEED INFO
=============
See the RSS help page for more details:
   http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=rss-help


WEB PAGE
=========

http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent==> most recent 
100 posts by default

http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent:200   ==> most recent 
200 posts

Slightly more information here:
    http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=aga-search-help#toc-3

Please let me know the problems!

AltJSON 0.2.2 - Warning: adds behaviour designed to tame large integers 
and potentially breaks existing serialisation of issue!

http://bit.ly/AltJSON| http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altjson.html

Please let me know of any problems.

S3 access turned R2 protocol: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/s3.html
- and a version using Graham's adapted HTTP protocol: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/s3http.r

Brief article on parse vs. regex for pattern matching.  Includes 
script for matching urls in plain text, and one for overlaying a 
text face with links (adapted from, I think, Allen K's work): http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Beyond_Regular_Expressions

Almost there: Twitter API client using OAuth (Basic Auth is being 
turned off).  Only thing I can't get working is signing a POST request 
with a body (which sucks for sending updates):

	http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL


I've tried using my rest:// protocol and the currently published 
version uses Graham's HTTP modifications (regular HTTP does not work 
as you can't use custom headers with a GET request).


Aside from that, the GET requests work, as does the authorization 
process.  Any observations welcome.

Added markers to my Google Charts script: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/google-charts.r

I feel like the addition is a bit messy, so ymmv.

	chart [data: [1 2 3 4]] ; basic usage
	chart [
		size: 200x200
		data: [
			[10 30 50 70 90]
			[30 40 50 60 70]
			[70 60 50 40 30]
			[90 70 50 30 10]
		]
		offset: 0
		markers: [
			financial 0.0.204 0 1x-1 20
		]
	]

If you use it, let me know how it goes.

'tweet function for posting to Twitter: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/tweet.html

Usage:


 do/args http://www.ross-gill.com/r/tweet.r[... keys/secrets per 
 settings ...]
	tweet "Status Update"


You can either do/args, or download the script and modify the header. 
 Caveat: you'll need the Application Key/Secret (obtained from the 
Twitter Dev Site) and the User Key/Secret (you'd have to do the handshake 
to get these, see my %twitter.r page: http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL).


Use at your own risk, you would not want to share any of the keys/secrets.

OT: the problem with AGG AA on smaller glyphs (not just arrow) is 
that it tends to have an adverse effect on glyph weight.  'course 
it beats bitmaps when it comes to scaling, but even pre-AA Draw gave 
more precise control -- hence the deterioration of the Arrow glyph 
post-AGG.  Illustrated here: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/chevron-test.png

Btw, if they are any use, I still have some UI design guides online: 
http://www.ross-gill.com/r/guides.html

Ashley : Chris made a minimalistic version of the arrow widget based 
on my actual version HERE IS THE LINK:  http://www.ross-gill.com/r/arrow-RebGUI-port.r
about 100 lines  ;)

Does this help ? http://www.ross-gill.com/techniques/rsp/

>> do http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/download-a-script.r?script-name=xml-parse.r
>> parse-xml+ read http://www.ross-gill.com/
** Script Error: Invalid path value: parse-xml
** Where: parse-xml+
** Near: xml-parse/parser/parse-xml code

>> parse-xml read http://www.ross-gill.com

== [document none [["html" ["xmlns" "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
"xml:lang" "en" "lang" "en"] ["^/" ["head" n
one [["title" none [...

This is a quickie -- designed to make 'parse-xml output more parseable:

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qxml.r

Any thoughts, comments?

; Usage:

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qxml.r
load-xml {<some xml="to">Try</some>}

; Next, Quick DOM:

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qdom.r

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qdom.r

doc: load-dom {<some><xml>to try</xml></some>}
values: doc/get-by-tagname <xml>
values/1/value = "to try"

Ok, another revision.  This has a few more methods, I may strip them 
down to read-only, as I don't need to manipulate the object though 
I left them in for completeness.

>> do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qdom.r
connecting to: www.ross-gill.com
Script: "QuickDOM" (none)
>> doc: load-dom {<some><xml id="foo">to try</xml></some>}
>> foo: doc/get-by-id "foo"
>> foo/name
== <xml>
>> foo/value
== [
    /id "foo" 
    # "to try"
]
>> kids: foo/children
== [make object! [
        name: #
        value: "to try"
        tree: [
            # "to try"
        ]
        position: [
   ...
>> kids/1/value
== "to try"
>> doc/tree/<some>/<xml>/(#)           
== "to try"

>> do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altxml.r
connecting to: www.ross-gill.com
Script: "AltXML" (7-Jun-2009)
>> all-stats: load-xml/dom your-xml-data 
>> player: stats/get-by-id "b.11965"                        
>> his-stats: first player/get-by-tag <stats-baseball-offensive>
>> his-stats/get #hits                                          
== "1"


>> remove-each code codes: all-stats/get-by-tag <sports-content-code> 
["league" <> code/get #code-type]
== [make object! [
        name: <sports-content-code>
        space: none
        value: [
            #code-type "league" 
      ...
>> foreach code codes [probe code/get #code-name]
Major ^/      League Baseball
== "Major ^/      League Baseball"

Doesn't go into much detail, but: http://www.ross-gill.com/page/XML+and+REBOL

re: websites down. I think the culprit in both cases is Chris's site 
(http://www.ross-gill.com/) where the CSS files reside.

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rebcon-map.r

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rebcon-map.r
; or 'where' on my rebsite

launch http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rebcon-map.r
; or 'where' on my rebsite
; an overview of virtual conference attendees...

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rebcon-map.r

Possibly too little too late -- but here is an open DevCon wiki for 
any info we have from the DevCon -- http://www.ross-gill.com/devcon05/
-- you can edit as soon as you register (for a short time)

I played with the TextMate bundle at one point (when I had a mac 
running here), and I think Will Arp or Chris Ross-Gill have also 
done some work on it.

http://www.ross-gill.com/images/GrabAir.jpg(I'm in orange, btw)

Hmm, DOM (ok, not really what he means, but still vaguely similar):

	http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=xml-dom.r
	http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qxml.html(slightly newer)

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/s3.html

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/vid-css.html

Quick 'n' dirty 'load-junk (cvts: for R2; junk! is string!; blocks 
mess things up): http://www.ross-gill.com/r/load-junk.r

Hmm, that'd be http://www.ross-gill.com/r/junk.r

Janko;  It you are diving into Cheyenne RSP, make sure you give QuarterMaster 
a look see.  http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/

Chris, like Nenad, is counted among the unsung heroes of the world, 
in my humble opinion.

http://ross-gill.com/r/daylight/map.jpg
http://ross-gill.com/r/daylight/map-zones.png

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altxml.r

r3tweets: load-xml/dom http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/45953552.rss
                     
foreach tweet r3tweets/get-by-tag <item> [
	print ""
	print tweet/get <pubDate>
	print tweet/get <title>
]

2) Past disussion mid-November in 'Advocacy' group.  Mockup here: 
http://www.ross-gill.com/arran.html

I think this is for an older version of the plugin: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/tile-test/
 Need to look into bringing it up to date...

Ok, try this:
http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/mod_qm.html

I've updated the QM source also to be Cheyenne friendly (still needs 
CGI query/post support):
http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/qm.html

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM

; requires QM
do http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/qm.r
context load http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rest.r

http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Atom+in+a+Hurry

Robert, write a few helper functions and use http://www.ross-gill.com/techniques/rsp/

I wrote this before HSV functions were added to /View, but it still 
works: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/hsv-lab.r

http://ross-gill.com/r/arrow-style.r

There was a world map at one point, maybe done by Chriss Ross-Gill 
on an old IOS world.

Graham -- needs an update: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rebcon-map.r

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/rebcon-map.r