[REBOL] Re: Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-08-27 Thread Andrew Martin
> And curiously, not only does Print fail, but so does Write. And that is a function that I need error trapping on, if ever there was one. >> type? try [print "The Force will be with you; always."] The Force will be with you; always. == unset! >> type? try [write %Force.txt "The Force will be wit

[REBOL] Re: Fixed (width) dialect

2002-08-27 Thread Andrew Martin
Gregg wrote: > Cool Andrew! Thanks! > Since the logic! definition doesnt' take a size, it's limited to single char values? Boolean/logic values are something that always give me a headache because it seems like nobobdy could agree on what chars or strings to map to. Currently, the DOS/Windows

[REBOL] Help me, Obi Reb Kenobi, you're my only hope!

2002-08-27 Thread Ed Dana
OK, so what's going on here. I'm trying to put a little error handling around my application. If it fails, I need it to send out an alarm. But, depending on the statement, I get an error when trying to trap the error. For example, this works as expected: >> If Error? Fred: Try [ 1 / 0 ] [ Pr

[REBOL] Re: Iterators & Functionids

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Robert, On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 8:20:56 PM, you wrote: RMM> forall list [ RMM> object: first list RMM> if (do bind copy predicate 'list) [do bind copy action RMM> 'list] RMM> ] This way you are copying and rebinding the blocks at each cy

[REBOL] Re: Fixed (width) dialect

2002-08-27 Thread Gregg Irwin
Cool Andrew! I had thought about something similar, as an old client of mine has lots of COBOL data and some enticement would be good. Since the logic! definition doesnt' take a size, it's limited to single char values? Boolean/logic values are something that always give me a headache because it

[REBOL] Re: Protecting web images : Rebol/flash , other ?

2002-08-27 Thread jose
I was thinking the best solution would be to embed the image in some component and have a scrolling text effect to make it difficult for people to take screenshots but you're saying that someone can disassemble SWF easily, right ? I will be using JPG and I imagine this can be called by the SWF co

[REBOL] Why not a new ML framework dev? - was Re: Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Gerard Cote
Hi everybody, Teh temptation is great for me to answer to this question by : Isn't all that we want to have in common to start with ? If eachone is intimately answering -YES - for himself, then I think this MUST be proposed and acted upon by a group of talented people that I know of that exists

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Graham Chiu
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:39:05 -0700 (PDT) "Ed O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bake your own cookie management system >Negotiate POST/GET transactions >Trap/manage redirects >Set the USER-AGENT, encoding types, etc. >Handle http uploads >Https and ftp > >The list of needs are pretty attaina

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Reffy, Not an application framework, just a critical piece of infrastructure that can be factored completely out of the application. -jn- - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:30 pm Subject: [REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support? > >

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread G. Scott Jones
Hi, Gabriele, From: "Gabriele Santilli" > GSJ> Is this the REBOL object that you seek? > GSJ> system/options/cgi > GS> Doesn't that work for CGI only? I don't seem to be able to read an GS> arbitrary environment variable out of that. I evidently misunderstood Joel's query. I thought he *was

[REBOL] Re: Iterators & Functionids

2002-08-27 Thread Robert M. Muench
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Gabriele Santilli > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 12:39 PM > To: Robert M. Muench > Subject: [REBOL] Re: Iterators & Functionids > What about: > > foreach-record: func ['word records predicate

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Scott, On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 3:24:47 PM, you wrote: GSJ> Is this the REBOL object that you seek? GSJ> system/options/cgi Doesn't that work for CGI only? I don't seem to be able to read an arbitrary environment variable out of that. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[EM

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Ed O'Connor
Rebol would be very attractive if it could easily transact with webservers exactly like a command-line web browser (minus rendering and JavaScript, etc.). I know that the protocols, the bits and pieces are already there; I'm talking about out-of-the-box support. Currently, you need to know many

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Joel, On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 1:44:50 PM, you wrote: JN> The other thing that is severly missing is any ability to get JN> to the environment (and I really hope somebody can show me that JN> I've missed something here!) It's likely that REBOL has such a thing internally, but it is not

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread Paweł Gawroński
Hi RebOldes, Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:02:06PM +0200, RebOldes napisał(a): > Hello Paweł, > The archive seems to be corrupted:( >1 arbiter.rar: Unknown method in arbiter\arbiter.r Try the zip version: http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~pg23193/corewars/arbiter.zip - ~200KB (with skins) http://akson.

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread G. Scott Jones
Hi, Joel, From: "Joel Neely" > The other thing that is severly missing is any ability to get > to the environment (and I really hope somebody can show me that > I've missed something here!) Is this the REBOL object that you seek? system/options/cgi Sample script: #!/path/to/rebol --cgi -s

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread reffy
ahh the application framework rears its ugly head ?? > For example, there is a widely-used security product that handles > userlogin/authentication as a plug-in to the web server. It > offers very sophisticated, fine-grained management of resources, > including distributed management of use

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Graham Chiu
I would like to know if there's a simple way to send and receive cookies under https ... -- Graham Chiu -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread Boleslav Brezovsky
No, archive is OK, I've downloaded WinRAR from winrar.com and it dearchives it OK but the script is buggy as I wrote. Maybe you've got old version of unrar. Bye, Bolek -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of RebOldes Sent: Tuesday, August 27,

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread Carl Read
On 27-Aug-02, Kemp Watson wrote: > WinRAR from RARsoft if you are in Wintel. Shareware - send me an > email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need it - the product's > website is down. -Kemp No - not Wintel. Remembered - Rip - that's the REBOL script compressor, isn't it? Note to the corewars

[REBOL] Re: locale

2002-08-27 Thread Francesco De Napoli
Hello Andrew On 26-Ago-02, Andrew Martin wrote: > script written in English, and wants the display in Czech. And so they use > a English to Czech translator script that uses, say, Babelfish or other Babelfish and other automatic translator are funny toys, nothing more. They work fine for words

[REBOL] Re: locale

2002-08-27 Thread Francesco De Napoli
Hello Petr On 25-Ago-02, Petr Krenzelok wrote: >> I think to put %app-name.r & %catalog/ in the same directory, so they >> maybe installed, copied, removed together :) >> > OK, then remember the directory can contain more than one app (script) > just a note :-) Ok! I'll use selective d

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread RebOldes
Hello Paweł, Monday, August 26, 2002, 9:27:00 PM, you wrote: >> > So how about doing a Corewars simulator in Rebol? Anyone interested? >> > Robert >> >> I'd be interested, though I'm not sure I've much time for the coding. >> Definately up as a beta-tester though. PG> That's pretty what I h

[REBOL] Re: Event transparent faces

2002-08-27 Thread Anton
I want this too. Does anyone know if it has been posted as feedback request? If not, let's do it. Anton. > It has a number of problems, but should get you going. Also, of > course the "right" solution would be for RT to provide event > transparency in some way. > > Regards, >Gabrie

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Andrew and Petr, Andrew Martin wrote: > > pekr wrote: > > ...could something be done about better POST, GET, cookie > > support in Rebol? > I'd like to second (third?) that sentiment. REBOL made such great strides in unifying 'Net protocols by allowing READ to operate transparently across

[REBOL] Re: Can't double-click rebol scripts on iMac

2002-08-27 Thread Joel Neely
Hi, Volker, Volker Nitsch wrote: > > Know only oold macs. there each file knows its programm, > there is no distinction by type... > Both creator and type information have been in the MacOS file system at least since the mid-80's, if not from the very beginning. I did Mac development in that

[REBOL] Re: Event transparent faces

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi RebOldes, On Monday, August 26, 2002, 1:41:44 PM, you wrote: R> view layout [ R>button "my button" 100 [print now] R>at 80x0 box 20x50 effect [merge colorize 200.0.0] R> ] Well, a rough approximation would be: view layout [ btn: button "my button" 100 [print now

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread Kemp Watson
WinRAR from RARsoft if you are in Wintel. Shareware - send me an email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need it - the product's website is down. -Kemp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Boleslav Brezovsky Sent: August 27, 2002 5:43 AM To: [

[REBOL] Re: Event transparent faces

2002-08-27 Thread Cyphre
Hi Oldes, AFAIKView currently doesn't support event-transparent faces, but you can try this little workaround(not much tested but it looks it should work): view layout [ but: button "my button" 100 [print now] at 80x0 box 20x50 effect [merge colorize 200.0.0] with [ feel: make feel [ ovr?

[REBOL] Re: Iterators & Functionids

2002-08-27 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Robert, On Tuesday, August 27, 2002, 11:24:11 AM, you wrote: RMM> Hi, I try to get the following behaviour: [...] What about: foreach-record: func ['word records predicate action] [ predicate: func reduce [word] predicate action: func reduce [word] action foreach

[REBOL] Fixed (width) dialect

2002-08-27 Thread Andrew Martin
Here's the Fixed dialect I've been working on. It's a dialect for pulling apart fixed width data files and translating the strings into appropriate Rebol values. With the use of my Associate functions (included), the dialect can even combine split up values. Here's an example of the dialect (with

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread Boleslav Brezovsky
> That's pretty what I have been thinking of! > Here's my first attempt: > http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~pg23193/corewars/arbiter.rar (~200KB) I take it that's compressed? .rar - I seem to remember there's a REBOL de-compressor. Umm, how do we use it - find it? - Hi, If I remeber, ther

[REBOL] Iterators & Functionids

2002-08-27 Thread Robert M. Muench
Hi, I try to get the following behaviour: test-action: [print "---" probe first iterator] test-predicate: [print type? list] forall-records object-list test-predicate test-action forall-records: func [list predicate action][ do predicate ; just fo

[REBOL] Re: Corewars?

2002-08-27 Thread Carl Read
On 27-Aug-02, Pawe³ Gawroñski wrote: > >> > So how about doing a Corewars simulator in Rebol? Anyone >> > interested? Robert >> I'd be interested, though I'm not sure I've much time for the >> coding. Definately up as a beta-tester though. > That's pretty what I have been thinking of! > Here's

[REBOL] Re: better post, get, cookie support?

2002-08-27 Thread Andrew Martin
pekr wrote: > ...could something be done about better POST, GET, cookie support in Rebol? I don't know. My GET software is becoming a special purpose dialect. One dialect for my Rebol/Wiki, and another dialect for my other CGI scripts. I haven't yet got enough experience with them to say to peopl