Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI fails w/ cairo error

2011-08-27 Thread Slava Pestov
Hi Matt, On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Matt Gushee wrote: > A couple of details that could be important: my desktop computer is > rather [ahem] embarrassingly old ... so it doesn't have SSE2. Therefore > I can't use a prebuilt package. I built factor last Sunday using the > >  ./build-support

[Factor-talk] Factor GUI fails w/ cairo error

2011-08-27 Thread Matt Gushee
Hi, folks-- I'm kind of new here ... I was learning Factor a couple of years ago, then got pulled away by circumstances, and am now trying to get back into it. However, I'm having an issue with the GUI listener. It runs fine on my laptop, but fails on my desktop as follows: $ ./factor cairo-e

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-12 Thread Jim mack
Thank you. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Jon Harper wrote: > > I never have understood the exact difference between dispatcher and > > responder, but somehow still can get things working. > > A responder is any tuple that implements the call-responder* generic word. > A dispatcher is a respon

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-12 Thread Jon Harper
> I never have understood the exact difference between dispatcher and > responder, but somehow still can get things working. A responder is any tuple that implements the call-responder* generic word. A dispatcher is a responder. Its call-responder* implementation is to dispatch the request to its

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-12 Thread Jim mack
s? I need to get more deeply into HTML 5 and > CSS 3, anyway. > > > > > > Shaping > > > > *From:* Jim mack [mailto:j...@less2do.com] > *Sent:* 2010-November-11, 13:29 > *To:* factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI >

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
: Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI Don't ignore the possibility of deploying as a local http server and having a local webapp. The server would be on the box, so it could do things locally, call COM, access clipboard. It's how I'm trying to do things, and works cross-platform, and is

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Jim mack
Don't ignore the possibility of deploying as a local http server and having a local webapp. The server would be on the box, so it could do things locally, call COM, access clipboard. It's how I'm trying to do things, and works cross-platform, and is only limited by your html/css skills. On Thu,

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
> I would still like to convince my sup that Factor is the way to go, and > he'll want the latest and greatest Windows 7 GUI, eventually. So my next > question is: Has anyone undertaken the task of making a more up-to-date > looking set of widgets for Factor to use when creating GUI apps, even

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Joe Groff
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Shaping wrote: > I would still like to convince my sup that Factor is the way to go, and > he'll want the latest and greatest Windows 7 GUI, eventually. So my next > question is:  Has anyone undertaken the task of making a more up-to-date > looking set of widgets f

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
> Incidentally, has it occurred to you that the authors of this program > (not me!) are the most active members of this list? Also, that the > author of a program might take some offence at being told that it "is > not polished visu