[REBOL] Re: steel... update... of the week (for more advanced rebolers)
From: maximo:meteorstudios at: 27-Jun-2003 18:43
Hi list,
thanks to Gabrielle I created a liquid-metal skin its a superset to the metal skin that
is currently in the steel toolset.
here is a snippet of code I have at home which works now!
note that code size has been cut in half wrt last example!
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rebol []
liquid: open-library 'liquid 1.0.0
;----
; create a liquid pipe network (the master)
pipe: liquify liquid/pipe [] ;liquify replaces make
;----
; create a vid layout
vidblk: layout [
stylize liquid-metal
below
sheet-metal ; the default steel backdrop
text-str: text pipe
field 200 attach pipe fill "START NAME:"
button [view/new layout [button [unview] attach text-str]]]
]
recipient: liquify liquid/recipient [
; recipient has an init function which checks
; if --valve-- was set and attaches to it automatically.
--valve--: text-string/pipe-obj
fill-action: function [data user-data][
write %./save.txt data
]
]
evrything updates without one action func.
further replies below:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gabriele Santilli [mailto:[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:49 AM
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> For example, wrt face/init, it's not casual that it is a block.
> This way, when creating a new style from an old one, we can write:
ok, but layout still has to call face/init ... so the vid dialect handles "dynamic"
init, not the object system itself...
in glass I must also call some sort of face/init after creating. I know its not a big
deal... :-) it just an extra line of code I don't write anymore. It also means initialisation
remains private at the object level so I don't need to think about always copying empty
blocks and strings or whatever... directly on objects.
I love the fact that there are no classes in rebol and that objects aren't instances.
But I sorely miss some aspects like private methods and members which, are most usefull
(I find) when developping frameworks, api, and tools. I also understand that all this
comes at a price that isn't always used by the mass...
(that's why python is more flexible wrt rebol objects BUT that's also why its 10 times
slower)
I do agree with you that rebol thinks differently and the package as a whole is exceptional.
Its just a little tough to customize the stuff when the internals aren't overly documented...
THAT'S WHY I LIKE THIS LIST... we all have little secrets and I find it cool that people,
here aren't affraid to share them :-)
> Another approach would be that of creating a custom type and then
> defining your TO action for that type, so that basically you use
> TO instead of MAKE to create your values. (If this was supported
> by REBOL natively, MAKE would do it for you...)
aren't custom types just in the sdk?
> MOA> does the value at the end of "make block!" really matter i.e.
> MOA> could it be 1? is it similar to: [words: copy []]
>
> It doesn't, except for the fact that the interpreter won't have to
> reallocate the space when you'll be inserting values in it.
thanks... didn't know that
> MOA> I guess args points to the word block at the first
> argument word (ptr to a notifer, for example),
>
> If your VID code is:
>
> Text attach pipe
>
> ARGS will be set to:
>
> args: reduce ['attach pipe]
ok, so then when back in layout it does something like?:
last-arg-used: my-facet-word-function args
new-offset: find vid-spec last-arg-used?
> MOA> and this return the list past all arguments you need... :-)
>
> Actually, one position back, because LAYOUT is already applying next
[...]
weird...I am using:
return tail args
And it works fine... Am I just lucky?
-Max
