[REBOL] Re: docs.rip 'bug'?

2002-07-05 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Charles, << ? What am I missing? Does this have to be run in /View? I haven't had need of /View yet, so I haven't downloaded it. It doesn't say anything about needing /View.. Thanks. >> Short answer: Yes, you have to run it under View. Long Answer: We all need to keep in mind that some

[REBOL] build-lib.r - global variable space

2002-07-05 Thread Charles
Greetings folks. Downloaded the library.rip, extracted it, went to execute library/build-lib.r like the webpage says to do, and I get this: Build REBOL Library - Version 2.4.1 Building library as of 6-Jul-2002/0:21:53-4:00 Analyzing all script files... * ellipse.r is missing its purpose *

[REBOL] docs.rip 'bug'?

2002-07-05 Thread Charles
Greets folks. Me again. I was running docs.rip in /Core 2.5.0.3.1 (that's what my previous problem was in), and got this: Script: "REBOL Self-extracting Binary Archive (RIP)" (25-Mar-2001/23:55:29-8:00) ** Script Error: request has no value ** Where: do-boot ** Near: if any [ not exists?

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]

2002-07-05 Thread Joanna Kurki
At 02:00 6.7.2002 +0200, you wrote: >Hi Joanna, Hi >On Friday, July 05, 2002, 9:01:23 PM, you wrote: > >JK> The way I see it, free Player should not have any interactive programing >JK> capability, just minimal ability to run exsting (compiled with decently >JK> priced Rebol/Compiler) scripts.

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]

2002-07-05 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Joanna, On Friday, July 05, 2002, 9:01:23 PM, you wrote: JK> The way I see it, free Player should not have any interactive programing JK> capability, just minimal ability to run exsting (compiled with decently JK> priced Rebol/Compiler) scripts. Mmm. A binary script format? You're basical

[REBOL] Re: speed up view

2002-07-05 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Anton, On Friday, July 05, 2002, 7:30:48 PM, you wrote: A> I think the 'up event gets filtered away sometimes? Ah! AWAKE is not recursive, but Romano's use of EAT requires it to be. :-) Changing events: clear [] to events: copy [] should fix it... but there are still some thing

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & XML encoding

2002-07-05 Thread Andrew Martin
bryan wrote: > Has anyone confirmed that Rebol won't write Unicode? I don't know about writing, but it's definite that Rebol can't read Unicode scripts. I wrote a Hello World program in Windows XP notepad and successively saved it with each of the four encodings: ANSI Unicode

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]

2002-07-05 Thread Joanna Kurki
At 19:41 5.7.2002 +0200, you wrote: >Hi Alessandro, > >On Friday, July 05, 2002, 2:54:14 PM, you wrote: > >rei> 1) Rebol development kit (an example): >rei> 1a) Rebol/Core - FREE >rei> 1b) Rebol/View - FREE >rei> 1c) Rebol/View/Pro - $99 >rei> 1d) Rebol/Command - $5

[REBOL] Re: speed up view

2002-07-05 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Thank for your bug! 1) it does not happens with /forever 2) the correction should be this: change the line events: clear [] with events: copy [] please, tell me if it fixes, it is not easy to replicate that bug. --- Ciao Romano -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Email question!

2002-07-05 Thread SunandaDH
Matthew: > Oops, found the problem. I used "first" as a variable... A big no no... Banish this sort of error forever, by putting protect-system in your user.r (or at least after any rebol word you do want to redefine). A slight warning on this though, it may make you version-dependant, for

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Email question!

2002-07-05 Thread Anton
Have you tried using the /subject refinement of send ? Anton. > I tested the exact same code in a new REBOL command window, and it > seemed to work fine. > > It's only in my program (which has grown quite convoluted) where it > won't work. But it's such a simple line of code, I have no idea

[REBOL] Re: [REBOL]

2002-07-05 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Alessandro, On Friday, July 05, 2002, 2:54:14 PM, you wrote: rei> 1) Rebol development kit (an example): rei> 1a) Rebol/Core - FREE rei> 1b) Rebol/View - FREE rei> 1c) Rebol/View/Pro - $99 rei> 1d) Rebol/Command - $500 (maybe included a Rebol editor, rei>

[REBOL] Re: speed up view

2002-07-05 Thread Anton
Hi Romano, Did you notice that it is possible to move the right slider without having the mouse button pressed? If you click, drag & release quickly, I think the 'up event gets filtered away sometimes? Anton. > This little hack to speed up view. > > I think that something like this should be pr

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-05 Thread Anton
I made a little demo which may help understanding series a bit easier for beginners. do http://www.lexicon.net/anton/rebol/demo/demo-series.r or through the Rebol desktop: Rebol.com/Sites/Anton/Demo/demo-series.r (the arrow looks a bit strange on the last full release of rebol,

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Email question!

2002-07-05 Thread Matthew Kim
Oops, found the problem. I used "first" as a variable... A big no no... -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & XML encoding; use encoding="windows-1252"

2002-07-05 Thread Andrew Martin
Also (for MS Internet Explorer), be sure to turn *OFF* the menu option: View Encoding Auto-Select. Andrew Martin ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/ -><- - Original Message - From: "Andrew Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 12:31 PM

[REBOL] Re: How to...? Convert Date of Birth to Age

2002-07-05 Thread Andrew Martin
Ladislav wrote: > you probably missed my suggested change. I did too! Sorry. > AFAICT your function can yield negative days sometimes. You're right! I tried out comparing date with date from 1/1/1900 to 1/1/2000 and discovered that: Age 30/01/1900 01/03/1900; My 'Age NOT Ladislav's

[REBOL] speed up view

2002-07-05 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
This little hack to speed up view. I think that something like this should be present at native level in View. --- Ciao Romano -- rebol [ Title: "Eat" Author: "Italian Connexion (Gabriele Santilli - Romano Paolo Tenca)" Purpose: "Event filtering --- speeds up view!" ] context [

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Q: Cropping text

2002-07-05 Thread Brett Handley
To Matt: There is also: >> parse/all "asdfghjkl" [copy text 3 skip to end] == true >> probe text "asd" == "asd" To Charles: copy/part at series 2 next at series 5 copy at series 3 remove/part at series 2 next at series 5 remove at series 3 > Persona

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Email question!

2002-07-05 Thread Matthew Kim
Just to add to my list of problems.. I think this might be related. My program loops to check my inbox... After successfully cycling through it once, the second time it tries to open it, I get this message: ** Throw Error: ** User Error: header not correctly parsed ** Near: throw make error! i

[REBOL] Re: Newbie Email question!

2002-07-05 Thread Matthew Kim
I tested the exact same code in a new REBOL command window, and it seemed to work fine. It's only in my program (which has grown quite convoluted) where it won't work. But it's such a simple line of code, I have no idea why it wouldn't work. Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -Ma

[REBOL] Newbie Email question!

2002-07-05 Thread Matthew Kim
Hi, I used to have this working... But now for some reason it doesn't seem to work. The problem I'm having is that when I try and send an email, the subject won't be sent, only the message is sent. My code is: message: "This is a message" subj: "This is the subject" header: make system/standa

[REBOL]

2002-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I send this email to everybody, but in expecially to Rebol creators, Rebol administrators, etc... Why? I wish to let you thinking it over Rebol licences, Macromedia Flash MX licences, software features, etc... These 2 programs are quite different, but for some software categories I can u

[REBOL] tag editor

2002-07-05 Thread Jim Clatfelter
http://www.clatfelter.net/a-a-edit.r I've posted the most recent version of the editor. The buttons and keyboard work together perfectly now. I ran into a problem with request-file. I couldn't use the keyboard in SaveAs. It wouldn't recognize what I had typed. So I added back what I had remov

[REBOL] Re: Rebol & XML encoding; use encoding="windows-1252"

2002-07-05 Thread bryan
Some questions: when you replace "-" with a space what did you replace it in, I mean where you using a text editor to look at output from your program, cause then it can be that the text editor is saving as US-ASCII instead of Unicode. Has anyone confirmed that Rebol won't write Unicode? Can you