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[REBOL] Re: Command window or Desktop

From: Michael_Chean:msn at: 22-Mar-2007 12:07

Yes, I agree that it would be a good idea, especially for beginners who might want to reference the scripts thru the desktop, and find it frustrating to restart Rebol desktop each time they exit the Console. ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregg Irwin<mailto:gregg-pointillistic.com> To: Michael Chean<mailto:rebolist-rebol.com> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:41 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Command window or Desktop 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 -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.