On Saturday, 16-July-2005 at 15:59:42 Bernie Schneider wrote,
>For instance, View is supposed to
>have over 40 standard colors available. What are they? By
>digging through the examples, I've discovered about a dozen of
>them. Where can I find out about the rest? And what are the
>standard View fonts, and how do I specify them? Are they in some
>document that I just haven't stumbled upon yet?
To see the available colors, enter...
help tuple!
at the console. It shows all the tuple words, but there's only a few of then
that aren't colors.
As to REBOL's fonts, there's only three "standard" ones - font-fixed,
font-sans-serif and font-serif. And they're all just a string containing a
font name. And I'm sure there's a way to change them, I've just forgotten how.
:-) To change them within a layout is easy enough though...
view layout [text "hello" font [name: "wingdings"]]
None of which is a criticism of your main point - the lack of good View/VID
reference data and general documentation. It's one of the main causes for the
lack of stickyness with REBOL, I'm sure. Another is View's not on OSX yet,
(not good for a cross-platform language), and the occasional things you come
across which are not part of the language yet and hence can stump what you're
doing. Two examples I've had recently is no saving of JPEGs, (I thought I'd
read this would be included with View 1.3, but it's not there), and you can't
change file-modes via FTP with REBOL.
There's possibly good news on the docs' front though - see...
http://www.rebol.net/article/0185.html
-- Carl Read.
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