[REBOL] Object Sea - Work in Progress

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Martin
Hi, everyone! I've been working on storing Rebol objects to a file and retrieving them again, which I'm calling a "Object Sea" for want of a better phrase or word. An object sea looks like: [ make object! [ M: 123 Name: "Sea #1" O: make object! [ M:

[REBOL] Re: Speeding up code

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
My sympathies! :-/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm being punished for it now by having to reinstall everything > on the machine from the opsys upwards. I guess it got jealous > too and trashed itself. > Been there. Done that. Don't want to go there again. > > There's some oddity going on

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Charles
>"Use the SOURCE, Luke!" ;-) > > Try copying the following into your interpreter window: > > help context > source context > help does > source does > help has > source has > > Too much thinking in c? ;-) Heh. Actually, it's things like. okay, um... the langua

[REBOL] Re: Student Distribution

2002-02-20 Thread Tom Conlin
numerical recipies online http://www.ma.utexas.edu/documentation/nr/bookfpdf/f6-4.pdf more general discussion http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Studentst-Distribution.html matlab versions http://www.maths.lth.se/matstat/stixbox/stixbox/pt.m hope these help On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Joel Neely wrote:

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Charles
I'm sure someone else has gotten to this already (I only get to my email about once every 24hrs), but in case someone else hasn't mentioned this, there's always the good old method of (I know this isn't all totally proper REBOL, or good code): test: x list: [a b c d ...] idxs: [] i: 0 foreach v

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Charles
Cool. Thanks, everyone, for the info! I've stuck the emails in my 'Snippets' folder for future reference. --Charles - Original Message - From: "Andrew Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 1:46 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: ROUND function (

[REBOL] Re: Multiple Find Function

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Martin
Alan wrote: > out: copy/deep reduce [val []] The above line is better as: out: reduce [val make block! 2] Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><- - Original Message - From: "alan parman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 20

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Martin
Philippe wrote: > Could you explain me this line : > while [all [not tail? series found? series: find/only series value]][ Sometimes it helps to see it like: while [ all [ not tail? series found? series: find/only series value ]

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Jason, Jason Cunliffe wrote: > > That's interesting. Could you expand a little please.. > What do you mean by "non-fall-through exit" ? > A "fall-through" exit is one that "falls" out of the end of the function. A non-fall-through exit terminates the function evaluation prior to reaching

[REBOL] Re: Number of variables used by my program

2002-02-20 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Philippe, > Is the number of variables in memory a big factor for a slow of the > processes. I don't think. > Is there a way to count them ? if memory is not a problem (32 byte at least for every var), the max number of global word is +- 4096 >> length? first system/words --- Ciao Romano

[REBOL] Re: Multiple Find Function

2002-02-20 Thread alan parman
Ooops! I meant multi-find: func [ "Find multiple instances of a value in a series and output their index position" ser [series!] "series to search" val "value to find" /local found out ][ out: copy/deep reduce [val []] parse ser [any [thru val found: (append out/

[REBOL] Re: Number of variables used by my program

2002-02-20 Thread Ryan Cole
[length? first system/words] should do it. It starts off around 2191, and you run out at 4096. According to my tests, size or context of a word does not effect performance. I am pretty sure the number of words has no effect also. --Ryan Philippe Oehler wrote: > Hi all, > > I got a big appli

[REBOL] Multiple Find Function

2002-02-20 Thread alan parman
Is the output of the following what you wanted? Anybody have improvements? To search blocks try multi-find to-string yourblock value. multi-find: func [ "Find multiple instances of a value in a series and output their index position" ser [series!] "series to search" val

[REBOL] Re: Sending mails...

2002-02-20 Thread G. Scott Jones
From: "G. Scott Jones" ... > system/schemes/smtp/user: "username" > system/schemes/smtp/pass: "password" Whoops, typo. Put wrong scheme name. Should be: system/schemes/esmtp/user: "username" system/schemes/esmtp/pass: "password" --Scott Jones -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send a

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Jason Cunliffe
"Joel Neely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only reason for using RETURN is to force non-fall-through > exit from a function. Putting it at the end of a function is > just a wasted extra word evaluation (and typing) AFAIK. Joel That's interesting. Could you expand a little please.. What do

[REBOL] Re: read daytime://

2002-02-20 Thread Terry Brownell
I would recommend accessing an atomic clock instead, probably more accurate.. Many are available, just do a search. TB - Original Message - From: "Marc L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: [REBOL] Re: read daytime:// The dayt

[REBOL] Number of variables used by my program

2002-02-20 Thread Philippe Oehler
Hi all, I got a big application did with rebol, 131 ko without core and i want to count the variables (words) used by my program. I have a 1.3 ghz pentium so i dont have problem to use the program. It's very fast, but i want to know if having a lots of variables (often not declared as /local to

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Philippe Oehler
Hi Brett, Could you explain me this line : while [all [not tail? series found? series: find/only series value]][ I use ALL like that "all [(first test)(second test)] [consequence]" but here ? and what does the rest of the line ? Philippe - Original Message - From: "Brett Handley" <[EMA

[REBOL] Return of line in a Alert Window

2002-02-20 Thread Philippe Oehler
Hi all, Is it possible to make a return of line in a alert window ? Philippe -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Speeding up code

2002-02-20 Thread SunandaDH
Joel: > > ... I've been offline for most of a week up in the hills ... > Welcome back! I'm jealous! ;-) I'm being punished for it now by having to reinstall everything on the machine from the opsys upwards. I guess it got jealous too and trashed itself. > > ... If you take this object...

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Brett Handley wrote: > > > > > The problem I had with the name is that the concept of "a context" > > is very specific in REBOL, and that concept shows up in multiple > > places. A function has a context, an object has a context, there > > is a global context, and every application of USE crea

[REBOL] Re: Student Distribution

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
The book's at my house. I'll try to check on that this evening. -jn- Ladislav Mecir wrote: > > Thanks, how about the Cumulative Student Distribution function, > do I have to use numerical integration? > > - Original Message - > From: "Joel Neely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROT

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Ladislav Ladislav Mecir wrote: > > <> > ...an object has a context, ... > <> > > I think, that we can safely say: an object *is* a context. > (which is the POV presented by RT too) > Functions have context. Does that mean that functions have objects? I wouldn't even have a problem with th

[REBOL] Re: how to switch between info and field ?

2002-02-20 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Or try this: view layout [f: field "a" button [f/feel: none ][f/feel: ctx-text/edit]] I do not like how the 'info style works (swipe object). --- Ciao Romano -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Philippe, Philippe Oehler wrote: > > Can you explain me something ? Why (result) is a local variable > and then without the RETURN word, you typed (result) at the end > of the function ? > The value returned from a function is the value of the last expression evaluated within the function.

[REBOL] Re: Rugby integration!

2002-02-20 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Maarten Koopmans wrote: >Did two minor bugfixes on rebxr and rugby in hipe. > >I realized that you can do this already: > >do %rugby.r >do %xml-rpc.r > >recho: func [s [string!]][ chain/deliver http:/localhost:8002 reduce ['echo >s] :print] > >which assumes that there is an echo Rugby on 8002 on

[REBOL] Re: More on Tail Recursion / Continuations / REBOL 1.x

2002-02-20 Thread Gregg Irwin
Great post Mark! I've got two new titles I need to add to my shelf now. :) --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Philippe, << Can you explain me something ? Why (result) is a local variable and then without the RETURN word, you typed (result) at the end of the function ? What is the advantage of this ? >> REBOL functions automatically return the last thing they evaluate. It's kind of a REBOL idiom *not*

[REBOL] Re: read daytime://

2002-02-20 Thread Marc L
The daytime protocol is different from NTP. You need to find a server offering the daytime service common on UNIX boxes. If you want to set up a Windows machine as a time server, I would recommend About Time. It is freeware and very simple to set up, just leave it running with the time serv

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Hi Brett, good night to you. My POV is as follows: <> ...an object has a context, ... <> I think, that we can safely say: an object *is* a context. (which is the POV presented by RT too) <> ...IIRC Rebol tech. has not used the word "context" in any official way except for this shortcut funct

[REBOL] Re: Sending mails...

2002-02-20 Thread G. Scott Jones
Hi, Robert, From: "Robert M. Muench" ... > Can the username/password be provided > by the script itself? I need to call it > from a CGI script and can't provide this > information via the command line ;-)) When I hacked these two scripts last year, the person I did it for (Nick) gave me a tempor

[REBOL] Re: Student Distribution

2002-02-20 Thread Ladislav Mecir
Thanks, how about the Cumulative Student Distribution function, do I have to use numerical integration? - Original Message - From: "Joel Neely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: Student Distribution Hi, Ladislav,

[REBOL] Freebell (Open Source / Help needed)

2002-02-20 Thread Frank Sievertsen
Hi! Some of you will know my REB*L for Java Implementation called Freebell. If not, you can find it's website at http://proton.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/Freebell/ Unfortunatly I don't have enough time to finish development by myself. But maybe some of you would like to help making a free java-

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Philippe Oehler
Hi Joel, Yes Joel something like that. Thanks a lot ! I tried with the FIND word but you just did with a IF test. Sometimes the things are more, more simple as you expected 8-) Can you explain me something ? Why (result) is a local variable and then without the RETURN word, you typed (result) at

[REBOL] Re: Student Distribution

2002-02-20 Thread Chris
Ladislav Mecir wrote: > I would like to define a Rebol function, that can compute values of the > Student Distribution. Any pointers? That's probably not to difficult: print "In the pub" would be a good enough approximation of student distribution ;) Chris -- .--{ http://www.starforge

[REBOL] Re: Rugby performance starting to fade ...

2002-02-20 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi Brett, What you are reporting is (IMO) that clients seem to be the limiting factor here (as is also the case when you go though a proxy). Thanks, Maarten On Wednesday 20 February 2002 13:32, you wrote: > Hi Petr, Maarten and other ladies and gentlemen, > > > as there is some problem with t

[REBOL] REBOL/DEMO msg 2

2002-02-20 Thread REBOL/DEMOn
Further guidelines? Demos must be written in REBOL. Graphical or ASCII demos - it's on you. 1st category - 1kB. Limited in size to 1024 bytes. 2nd category - 16kB. Limited in size to 16384 bytes (most REBOL demos will fit here) 3rd category - wild compo. If you've got 5Meg animation running u

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Hi Joel, > Not that I would ever dissent, but... ;-) Hah! :) > > Also, CONTEXT has an educational quality about it - it reminds > > me to think about where/when objects can be used. On this > > basis I was glad for its introduction. > > > > The problem I had with the name is that the concept

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Hi Philippe, You can use find in a loop. Save the result of the previous find so that you do another find after the last one: find-multiple: function [ "Searches the series and returns the positions where the value occurs." series [series!] value [any-type!] ][result][ result: co

[REBOL] Re: Rugby integration (was) Re: Re: ANN: Rugby configurable (with compression)

2002-02-20 Thread Petr Krenzelok
> > What about not reinventing the wheel and implementing my own listening > > loop, and run Rugby server in main-server? What would be needed? Simply to > > teach external environments Rugby protocol. So now few questions - > > > > You are right. But RUgby was Inter-REBOL to now. > Of course, I

[REBOL] Re: Rugby performance starting to fade ...

2002-02-20 Thread Petr Krenzelok
Thanks Brett, appreciated! One small observation btw: W9x to W9x machine - 40 sec W9x to W2K machine - 20 sec There is really something wrong with W9x, that's my conclusion ... -pekr- -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subje

[REBOL] Re: Speeding up code

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Sunanda, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... I've been offline for most of a week up in the hills ... > Welcome back! I'm jealous! ;-) > > > Just out of curiousity, why? I saw that, but didn't > > understand it. > > Simply because the interface spec says it returns False if you > call it

[REBOL] Re: Student Distribution

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Ladislav, Ladislav Mecir wrote: > > I would like to define a Rebol function, that can compute > values of the Student Distribution. Any pointers? > _Numerical_Recipes__The_Art_of_Scientific_Computation_ by Press, Flannery, Teukolsky, and Vetterling (c) Cambridge University Press, 1986 ISB

[REBOL] Re: Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Philippe, Philippe Oehler wrote: > > I want to make multi-researches on a block of strings. > > The result I want is an array of index of all appereances of a name, > but the 'find word find only the first appereance > Do you mean something like this? >> blort: [1 2 0 3 0 4 5 6 0 7]

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Brett, Not that I would ever dissent, but... ;-) Brett Handley wrote: > > Hi, > > > Well, okay, but for consistancy's sake, why wasn't 'to-object > > chosen as its name? > > Hopefully the language designer will answer definitively, in > between times my purely subjective thoughts.. > >

[REBOL] Java Compatable Compression/Decompression

2002-02-20 Thread er86
I have run into a Java based webcam viewing solution that really stinks. I thought I would implement one in REBOL since the .JPEG files used for the video are stored on a HTTP server. Unfortunately, the .JPEG files on this server apparently use some feature of JAVA to compress the files since

[REBOL] Rugby integration!

2002-02-20 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Did two minor bugfixes on rebxr and rugby in hipe. I realized that you can do this already: do %rugby.r do %xml-rpc.r recho: func [s [string!]][ chain/deliver http:/localhost:8002 reduce ['echo s] :print] which assumes that there is an echo Rugby on 8002 on localhost. Now do: xmlrpc-serve [

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/Demo 2002 Competition

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Hello REBOL/DEMOn, > If there won't be enough demos to open at least one category than I'm afraid > that REBOL's future is not very bright. Please introduce yourself. I'd like to have some idea of who it is that I am considering committing my time to before I commit. Cheers, Brett. -- To uns

[REBOL] Re: Sending mails...

2002-02-20 Thread Robert M. Muench
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Gregg Irwin > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:38 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Sending mails... > The only problems I had was when a provider required SMTP authentication. We

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & printers

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Actually the equivalent can be accomplished in REBOL as well, but you have to implement the conventions yourself (at least until somebody has the time...) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > > Since Rebol is internet-oriented library should be created to > let me insert in my code only the needed funct

[REBOL] Re: Rugby performance starting to fade ...

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Hi Petr, Maarten and other ladies and gentlemen, > as there is some problem with tcp performance on W9x machines (tests for > 100x call to echo function is some 44 sec regardless of machine being > P300 or P650), I gave Rugby a test on W2K, 1.4 Athlon XP machine > > Could some of you, help h

[REBOL] More on Tail Recursion / Continuations / REBOL 1.x

2002-02-20 Thread Robbo1Mark
Hello folks, Further to Joe Marshalls comments about REBOL & tail-call optimisation and continuations here's some more general info, this time >From the PYTHON Mailing List Archive -- SNIP - Thread: Scheme's Infinite Zen Was Python's G

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Charles, Charles wrote: > >I do not believe I've come across these three in my (highly > limited) studies. Is there a decent reference to them in > "REBOL For Dummies" > RfD and RtOG both describe /Core 2.3, and at least two of these were added later. > > , or one of the online guides

[REBOL] Student Distribution

2002-02-20 Thread Ladislav Mecir
I would like to define a Rebol function, that can compute values of the Student Distribution. Any pointers? TIA Ladislav -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Rugby integration (was) Re: Re: ANN: Rugby configurable (with compression)

2002-02-20 Thread Maarten Koopmans
On Wednesday 20 February 2002 09:56, you wrote: > > > Now the question/brainstorming: > > > > > > - Main-server uses chaining to call to one of three (or more) child > > > servers, so it acts as proxy. Each of child servers is allowed to > > > maintain e.g. 20 simultaneous connections to database,

[REBOL] Re: An object by another name

2002-02-20 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Charles, Charles wrote: > > Joel's solution is the one which came to me first, too. But, > I was thinking in C. > I wasn't, I can assure you. > > Basically, an array which contains .. well, it's not the > same as pointers in C, but basically close. > Not from my perspective. A REBOL blo

[REBOL] Re: Speeding up code

2002-02-20 Thread SunandaDH
Hi Joel, Thanks for your long and thoughtful reply, I've been offline for most of a week up in the hills, so I haven't had a chance to comment. Just a few minor addendums: > > I say _almost_ no difference for two reasons: > > > > 01 -- In the original code, an invocation without a refineme

[REBOL] Re: REBOL/Demo 2002 Competition

2002-02-20 Thread Cyphre
Hello REBOL/DEMOn, What about tell us more detailed info regarding competition rules, prices (if there will be any ;-) ) etc. Who will be in jury? Who is arranging the competition? Regards, Cyphre - Original Message - From: "Rebol Demo Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[REBOL] Re: Deeper documentation...

2002-02-20 Thread Philippe Oehler
I totally agree with you. To start learning rebol, specially VID dialect, you has to ask to other rebollers a lots of questions. Those information that couldnt be found somewhere else. I think that without this elist you couldnt advance the way you should. That's shoudn't happen. WE (this elist)

[REBOL] Re: Deeper documentation...

2002-02-20 Thread Carl Read
On 20-Feb-02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, I'm deeply studying rebol, since I'm trying to persuade my > company to adopt Rebol to create some client applications > (internet/intranet based). The biggest problem I found is > documentation. Yes, Rebol has much documentation, but if I wish som

[REBOL] Re: A bit OT: CGI question

2002-02-20 Thread Tom Conlin
Hi Robert, I also have such a script, mine is a functional replacement for the old standard 'cgiemail I also have the same problem with funky relative to the cgi-bin urls. I tried a few things mainly to get the clients browser to see a 307 redirect code, but that angle does not pan out since

[REBOL] Multi-searches

2002-02-20 Thread Philippe Oehler
Hi all, I want to make multi-researches on a block of strings. The result I want is an array of index of all appereances of a name, but the 'find word find only the first appereance and to find the second appereance I have to find the index, then 'skip the list to index + 1 and so on.. Is there

[REBOL] Re: About CONTINUATIONS

2002-02-20 Thread Robbo1Mark
Chaz, What point are you making in relation to REBOL? Icon's Goal Directed Evaluation is based on backtracking which requires every part of the expression to have a success or failure continuation, so the continuation model *IS* there in ICON. ICON also has generators & co-expressions which ar

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & printers

2002-02-20 Thread Cassani Mario
Hallo Olivier, > Someone knows a TCP protocol for Rebol to print a document > on a server NT/2000 ? Start from this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=lpd+windows+printer+daemon Mario -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in

[REBOL] Rugby integration (was) Re: Re: ANN: Rugby configurable (with compression)

2002-02-20 Thread Petr Krenzelok
> > Now the question/brainstorming: > > > > - Main-server uses chaining to call to one of three (or more) child > > servers, so it acts as proxy. Each of child servers is allowed to > > maintain e.g. 20 simultaneous connections to database, or just accept 20 > > request from main-server. Each data

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Hi, > Well, okay, but for consistancy's sake, why wasn't 'to-object chosen > as its name? Hopefully the language designer will answer definitively, in between times my purely subjective thoughts.. I'd sort of assumed that it was a forward looking change. Also, CONTEXT has an educational qualit

[REBOL] Re: Confirmed - Rugby proxy "problem" ...

2002-02-20 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi, I think I now what is going on. The proxy (stub) code uses the external IP address in the current version. Ideally you want to be able to specify the IP address in the tcp://: part. I'll look into it, but it maytake some time to get it right. Thanks, Maarten On Wednesday 20 February 20

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Carl Read
On 20-Feb-02, Gregg Irwin wrote: > Hi Charles, > CONTEXT is a shortcut for MAKE OBJECT! >>> o: context [a: 1 b: 2] >>> o/a > == 1 >>> type? o > == object! Well, okay, but for consistancy's sake, why wasn't 'to-object chosen as its name? -- Carl Read -- To unsubscribe from this list, please

[REBOL] Re: A bit OT: CGI question

2002-02-20 Thread Cassani Mario
Hallo Robert, > cgi-bin/ directory the web pages are located in a html/ directory. If you mean: websitepath/ websitepath/cgi-bin/ websitepath/html/ > The problem is that the references inside the confirmation > page a now all > relative to the cgi-bin/ directory and not to the html/ > dir

[REBOL] Re: how to switch between info and field ?

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Hi, Try this: view layout [ across label "enabled: " check true [ either value [ fld/feel: ctx-text/edit fld/color: svvc/field ] [ fld/feel: ctx-text/swipe fld/color: 180.180.180 ] show fld/parent-face

[REBOL] Re: A bit OT: CGI question

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Martin
Robert wrote: > Hi, Hi, Robert! > I use a Rebol script that takes the input from a form and sends an email and returns a confirmation page to the client. The rebol script is located in cgi-bin/ directory the web pages are located in a html/ directory. > > The problem is that the references insid

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & printers

2002-02-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good! You wish some suggestions? I say my suggestion... Since Rebol is internet-oriented library should be created to let me insert in my code only the needed functions, not the whole library. If you create a rebol script, I can import it with "do ..." but I import all the libraries... not only t

[REBOL] Deeper documentation...

2002-02-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I'm deeply studying rebol, since I'm trying to persuade my company to adopt Rebol to create some client applications (internet/intranet based). The biggest problem I found is documentation. Yes, Rebol has much documentation, but if I wish some explanations about a particular argument the s

[REBOL] Re: About CONTINUATIONS

2002-02-20 Thread chaz
On 17-Jun-2000 Brian Hawley had this to say about Continuations http://www.rebol.org/userlist/archive/205/393.html "Continuations: Scheme has them (base of its execution model); REBOL dropped these too when it switched to a stack engine. Continuations don't make much sense with a stack engine -

[REBOL] how to switch between info and field ?

2002-02-20 Thread Stéphane Didierjean
Hi, All is in the title, I would like to make a field no-editable and after switch it editable, how can I do this in Rebol in a simple way ? Thanks in advance Stephane ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Y

[REBOL] Re: A bit OT: CGI question

2002-02-20 Thread Hallvard Ystad
Dixit Robert M. Muench (20.58 19.02.2002): >Hi, I use a Rebol script that takes the input from a form and sends an email and >returns a confirmation page to the client. The rebol script is located in >cgi-bin/ directory the web pages are located in a html/ directory. > >The problem is that the ref

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Andrew Martin
Charles wrote: > I do not believe I've come across these three in my (highly limited)studies. Is there a decent reference to them in "REBOL For Dummies", or one of the online guides? (Preferrably a non-PDF guide.) Thanks. >> source context context: func [ "Defines a unique (underived) objec

[REBOL] Re: specific position in area

2002-02-20 Thread Brett Handley
Certainly, you just needed to mention the word "cursor" ;-) view layout [ a: area "place your cursor then click button" button "insert" [ insert system/view/caret "" show a] ] A few other insights are available if you are "game enough" to sift through the ctx-text object. Regards, Brett

[REBOL] Re: ROUND function (like TRUNC, FLOOR, etc...)

2002-02-20 Thread Carl Read
On 20-Feb-02, Charles wrote: > I do not believe I've come across these three in my (highly > limited) studies. Is there a decent reference to them in "REBOL For > Dummies", or one of the online guides? (Preferrably a non-PDF > guide.) Thanks. > --Charles Others can have a go at 'context, but