[REBOL] Re: Command window or Desktop
From: gregg:pointillistic at: 22-Mar-2007 11:41
Hi Michael,
MC> Is there any way to start up the command window from the desktop and still
MC> leave the Desktop up?
Only if you use something like Cyphre's experimental View Console.
If you do "?? desktop", you'll see that it starts the View event loop,
which affects the console of course, because it's the same instance of
REBOL. Deeper in the viewtop code, this is what it does to go back to
the console:
halt-view: does [
; Close the desktop and open the console:
unview/all
about
halt
]
So you're alternating between running the event loop, and not.
I always thought Cyphre's idea was so cool (a console emulator written
in REBOL), and that you should be able to write a nifty, simple, IDE,
where that virtual console could be an interactive debug window.
-- Gregg