Re: [Factor-talk] Desperate UI help

2015-02-21 Thread John Benediktsson
Hi Mark, The UI is a cross-platform interface built on OpenGL and we haven't implemented cross-platform popups or modal dialogs. The current popups are rendered into the window. However, we support on each platform calling any of the native UI's. So basically anything you can create on the

Re: [Factor-talk] Desperate UI help

2015-02-21 Thread Mark Green
Hi, Most problems can render outside of their window if needed for a menu. For example, try shrinking your web browser window vertically so that only one line or so of the web page is visible, then right-clicking in the visible space. Mark

Re: [Factor-talk] ActiveX DLL

2015-02-21 Thread John Benediktsson
The online docs are unfortunately not generated by our builders cross-platform right now. Something our new parser should hopefully fix. I recommend doing: IN: scratchpad windows.com about And looking through those docs on your local Windows install. Best, John. On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at

Re: [Factor-talk] ActiveX DLL

2015-02-21 Thread John Porubek
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Joe Groff arc...@gmail.com wrote: Check out the windows.com vocabulary. The vocabulary reference showed up as a link to somewhere on Microsoft. Here's the link http://docs.factorcode.org/content/vocab-windows.com.html to the Factor online docs for

[Factor-talk] Desperate UI help

2015-02-21 Thread Mark Green
Hi folks, I'm really sorry to have to post about this again but I'm getting flak at this point and having to consider pulling a project off Factor because of the difficulties with the UI library. Is there any way to print or trace the behavior of UI objects so that I can see why a model is

Re: [Factor-talk] Desperate UI help

2015-02-21 Thread Doug Coleman
Hey Mark, Have you tried the ``watch`` word to print the stack before and after calling a word? I would look at your code if you pastebin something that doesn't work. The problem with putting a breakpoint in the UI thread is that it starves the single thread that Factor runs in and the UI can't