[REBOL] Re: Cool small program. :)
From: carl::cybercraft::co::nz at: 21-Dec-2002 19:36
On 21-Dec-02, Bruno G. Albuquerque wrote:
> After not doing anything with Rebol for the past months (mostly
> beacuse, as you guys are probably aware, I use BeOS and Rebol is as
> buggy as it can be on this platform), I decided to create something
> fun with it. The result was Daily Strip. You can get it from:
> http://www.bebits.com/app/3187/
> What it does is to fetch some comic strips from the internet and
> display them in a window. It is not the most exciting Rebol program
> ever nor it uses any advanced technique. In fact, I am probably
> doing some dumb stuff in the code and using more code then it is
> necessary, but the main point is that I commented the entire code
> (there are more comments than code in it) to try to help people just
> sarting with Rebol.
> Any comments/suggestions/critics are welcome. I hope you guys like
> it.
Very nice Bruno. It worked without a hitch on Amiga, though I'd
changed the file-name before running it. Excellent commenting, too.
Looks like it'd be very easy to figure out how to add other strips.
Only suggestion I'd make is to add an error-check to capture if
someone's not online when they run it so that it'd shut down
gracefully. Otherwise, well done.
> -Bruno
> Ps: I developed it for BeOS so the script itself is called "Daily
> Strip" with a space in the name adno ".r" extension. Just rename it
> to "DailyStrip.r" or something like that if you're using Windows.
> Also the first line is a she-bang line to make the script
> automatically run with Rebol. It assumes the rebol (view) executable
> is located in the /boot/ home/config/bin directory, so just change
> that to the correct location on your system if you're running Linux.
--
Carl Read
