[REBOL] World Wide Rabbit - and what can be done to fix it?

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Hi After playing with Java Web Start, it is clear that REBOL better get its View/Desktop act together fast or else be run over by a fleet of snarling coffee-cups. http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/webstart.html I ran View/Desktop -first time for a while as my default is shell mode]. gee: There

[REBOL] Java Web Start

2002-10-19 Thread Jason Cunliffe
Java got mangled on my system as it often does [Win98se]. I de-installed it and some suspect apps [a few times], then downloaded a fresh JAVA from sun. Reboot and voila java-based apps work again. Now I see a fresh coffee icon on my desktop: Java Web Start Look like the sensible thin sharp end of

[REBOL] Re: Help function for contracts

2002-10-19 Thread Jan Skibinski
Hi Gregg, > << One question: How to programmatically insert line breaks into > a series of blocks? >> > > That's a tricky one. If you use a layout in your code, the line hints are > preserved, but I haven't found a way to simulate them. Actually, I found reasonable solution: use 'compose/de

[REBOL] Re: Help function for contracts

2002-10-19 Thread Gregg Irwin
Hi Jan, << One question: How to programmatically insert line breaks into a series of blocks? >> That's a tricky one. If you use a layout in your code, the line hints are preserved, but I haven't found a way to simulate them. If you're using objects, you can MOLD them to make REBOL do the lay

[REBOL] Re: HTTP-Post Error

2002-10-19 Thread Matthew Kim
To be quite honest, I'm still a newbie at REBOL and I find the code you posted, very difficult to understand! I wish I were a REBOL genious! =) From: RebOldes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham Chiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [REBOL] Re: HTTP-Post Error Date: Sat, 19 Oct

[REBOL] Re: using struct! to convert values to binary! datatype

2002-10-19 Thread RebOldes
Hello Gregg, Wednesday, October 16, 2002, 11:20:49 PM, you wrote: GI> Hi Oldes, GI> Excellent! Do you need to use COPY in cases where you're returning the GI> entire element, as in: GI> int-to-ui32-st: func[i][ui32-struct/value: i copy third ui32-struct] GI> Eliminating COPY, if you can, sho

[REBOL] Re: HTTP-Post Error

2002-10-19 Thread RebOldes
Hello Graham, Thursday, October 17, 2002, 9:25:00 AM, you wrote: >>It's been working beautifully in the past with some help >>from you REBOL genious' but now occasionally I seem to >>get a "HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error". >> >>http://216.129.53.44:8080/cgi-bin/send_sm_rogers.new? GC> Perh

[REBOL] Re: using struct! to convert values to binary! datatype

2002-10-19 Thread RebOldes
Hello Brett, Thursday, October 17, 2002, 12:03:59 AM, you wrote: >> thanks to discussion about the system-port I just found that the struct! BH> is free in Rebol, BH> It does not work Core or in Base - so don't throw away your functions just BH> yet. BH> Still your findings are very handy to