[REBOL] Re: Introducing REBOL/Base - FAQ

2002-10-14 Thread Steve Shireman
Seems much faster than Core...have to try a slow machine... Interesting! I was thinking it would need some test for scripts, but can just test with /Base /Pod might be more apropos than /Base for a name (implying more mobility) /Focus, /Gadget or /Scope might be a shrunk-wrapped name for

[REBOL] Re: XML.com Embedded Markup Considered Harmful [Oct. 02, 1997]

2002-10-14 Thread Andrew Martin
Joel wrote: Adding length attribute/value data to the block tag is left as an exercise to the reader. [ Rebol [] XML: func [Block [block!]] [ ML Map Block func [Value] [ reduce any [ if block? Value [ ['block/length length? Value XML Value]

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Good work Gregg, thanks! If you know windows-msg, can you tell us what msg could be useful? And there is something that can be usefule in the Rebol View (not command/pro)? --- Ciao Romano - Original Message - From: Gregg Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

[REBOL] Refresh speed of Rebol/View...WAS:Re: deceleration !

2002-10-14 Thread Cyphre
Hi list, As there was discussion about speed of Rebol/View and I'm still interested how fast View really is so I tried to make a little script which measures(more or less exact ;-)) the framerate of plain rebol face in different sizes. I would like to know how fast is Rebol's framebuffer on

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Romano, If you know windows-msg, can you tell us what msg could be useful? Well, given the volume of Windows messages, you really need to know what it is you want to accomplish because most of them exist for a reason, so they're all useful in some context. :) WM_GETMINMAXINFO - Used to

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread Romano Paolo Tenca
Hi Gregg, thanks again for all your work. An old trick people would use was to post a message to themselves, rather than setting up a timer and state flag, to emulate a notification system, but I never really liked it much. Not being Windows a real time system, it makes no great

[REBOL] Re: XML.com Embedded Markup Considered Harmful [Oct.02, 1997]

2002-10-14 Thread Steven White
You could try: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/welcome.html Yes. Great story Joel :-) I collect this stuff. Any idea of an exact source? thanks ./Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread Gregg Irwin
Structure are also in the plain version of View (and Core i think). But not library! and routine!. I couldn't make a struct! in Core, but I could in View. --Gregg -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Refresh speed of Rebol/View...WAS:Re: deceleration !

2002-10-14 Thread James Marsden
Re: Cyphre's benchmark.r Two things intrigued me from the benchmarks I got - one was the fact that Win2k seems to have been limited intentionally to 50fps and the other was the insane speeds BeOS gave in the 320x240 and 640x480 tests. Results below: All versions below tested on the same

[REBOL] Re: Refresh speed of Rebol/View...WAS:Re: deceleration !

2002-10-14 Thread Carl Read
On 15-Oct-02, Cyphre wrote: Hi list, As there was discussion about speed of Rebol/View and I'm still interested how fast View really is so I tried to make a little script which measures(more or less exact ;-)) the framerate of plain rebol face in different sizes. I would like to know how

[REBOL] Field bug ? (was Re: Pairs in fields...)

2002-10-14 Thread Carl Read
Hi Anton, Thanks - I remember seeing it now. And it's showed me that the problem I was having had nothing to do with my script - as it's in yours too. The problem's with field itself. Enter the following at the console... test-lo: layout [ field aaa 60 field bbb 60 ] view/offset

[REBOL] strange behavior ... (Was) Re: Re: Refresh speed of Rebol/View...

2002-10-14 Thread Petr Krenzelok
James Marsden wrote: Re: Cyphre's benchmark.r Two things intrigued me from the benchmarks I got - one was the fact that Win2k seems to have been limited intentionally to 50fps and the other was the insane speeds BeOS gave in the 320x240 and 640x480 tests. very strange effect is - try to

[REBOL] Re: strange behavior ... (Was) Re: Re: Refresh speed of Rebol/View...

2002-10-14 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Petr, On Monday, October 14, 2002, 11:50:49 PM, you wrote: PK conclusion? Can View refresh rate be faster or not? Why 'move event PK causes faster refresh? Because Window's time events don't come faster than that. I even got higher fps on the larger face... Regards, Gabriele. --

[REBOL] Re: Field bug ? (was Re: Pairs in fields...)

2002-10-14 Thread Gabriele Santilli
Hi Carl, On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, 12:09:35 AM, you wrote: CR test-lo: layout [ CR field aaa 60 CR field bbb 60 CR ] You can fix it with: test-lo: layout [ field aaa 60 para [] field bbb 60 para [] ] To have it fixed globally you could do something like:

[REBOL] dns lookup

2002-10-14 Thread Graham Chiu
How does one do a DNS lookup on one of the blacklisting DNS services? -- Graham Chiu -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without the quotes.

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread atruter
Well, given the volume of Windows messages, you really need to know what it is you want to accomplish because most of them exist for a reason, so they're all useful in some context. :) I don't suppose there is a handy one for create a short-cut on the desktop regardless of what Windows

[REBOL] EWD#1205 = WAS: {Re: Re: XML.com Embedded Markup Considered Harmful [Oct.02, 1997]}

2002-10-14 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Steven White wrote: You could try: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/welcome.html Thanks. What a great treasure. I did not realize he just died this summer. I stumbled onto a wonderful memo describing a seminar he attended at Harvard, on copyright and information law: #1205 A trip to

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread James Marsden
Ashley wrote: I don't suppose there is a handy one for create a short-cut on the desktop regardless of what Windows version it is? ;) The easiest way I know of (which doesn't depend on esoteric fCreateShell dll calls) is to call a windows scripting object file (a *.sh text file) which will get

[REBOL] Re: Exploring System Port

2002-10-14 Thread atruter
a sample script file (sample.sh) could contain: Nice then from rebol its a simple shell call using the ShellExecute API specifying the name of the script to call. Err, this lost me a bit. ;) Could you provide an example of a simple shell call using the ShellExecute API ... Regards,