[REBOL] Re: Function "LAUNCH" - Usage questions

2002-06-13 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the two Rebol programs can't communicate > directly, > > have them write to a .TXT file, and the other > would look > > for keywords do do something, write something else > to > > the file, etc,etc. > > > > I have tried and used Rebol

[REBOL] Re: Function "LAUNCH" - Usage questions

2002-06-13 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think their special $49 pricing on View/Pro is > gone, so it might be $99 > > now, but still not an outrageous fee if you need > those features. > > > > --Gregg > > > > However... in this mailing-list many people ask to > Carl to make > fr

[REBOL] Re: Function "LAUNCH" - Usage questions

2002-06-10 Thread Christopher Dicely
FWIW, my earlier message on this thread represented an incorrect understanding; launch can be used in the console and scripts launched through the console, but not in scripts invoked via the REBOL command line; not sure about using the /View interface. This makes it, as others have noted, less t

[REBOL] Re: Function "LAUNCH" - Usage questions

2002-06-07 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Gregg Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Allesandro, > > << > I was very interested to the function "launch" (I > didn't know it). > > But I didn't find enought documentation about it. > Can someone tell me more about launch refiniments? > (this function could > be used to simulate a mul

[REBOL] Re: utf8-encode

2002-06-07 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- RebOldes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > shift: func [ > "Takes a base-2 binary string and shifts bits" > data [string! binary!] places [integer!] /left > /right > ][ > data: enbase/base data 2 > either right [ > remove/part tail data negate places > data: he

[REBOL] Re: IS REBOL object oriented?

2002-06-06 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Volker Nitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so why should rebol implement a more and more > deprecated feature? ;) I wasn't saying it should, just that it might be a difference that someone whose expectations were formed by C++. __ Do You

[REBOL] Re: IS REBOL object oriented?

2002-06-05 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Volker Nitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 5. Juni 2002 22:14 schrieb Christopher > Dicely: > > --- Abdel Belkasri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anton, > > > > > > 1- Can I create my own cu

[REBOL] Re: IS REBOL object oriented?

2002-06-05 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Abdel Belkasri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anton, > > 1- Can I create my own custom object? Sure. foo: make object! [ . . . ] That'll create an object. It works much like an object in a "real" OO language -- it can have data members, methods, etc. The big thing it misses compared

[REBOL] Re: Rounding

2002-05-30 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Christian Langreiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there such a beast or must one write a function > to do it? > > round: func [x] [to-integer .5 + x] This has results which are probably undesired with negative inputs. Chris Dicely __ Do

[REBOL] Re: Rounding

2002-05-30 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Mat Bettinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, > > >> print to-integer 1.6 > 1 > > I can't for the life of me find a word which does > the same as this but > which actually rounds (so you'd get 2) rather than > just chopping off > the remainder. > > Is there such a beast or must one wri

[REBOL] Re: Limiting Precision of Decimals,

2002-05-25 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Gregg Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Louis, > > << Thanks! But I haven't been able to figure out > how to use it. Would you > please give me a sample usage? >> > > DOH! I was going to post a simple reply, but it > appears you've outsmarted > me. :) If there's only a decimal compone

[REBOL] Re: black hawk down

2002-01-26 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Carl Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I understand it, (ie - probably wrongly:), the > IOS/Morpheus link will enable Morpheus to rightly > claim they're more than just a file-sharing service > because they'll be providing distributed computing > as well. Unless the law is an ass, t

[REBOL] Re: Secure file upload tool design?

2001-12-18 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Jason Cunliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to build a secure client-side tool in > REBOLfor people to upload files > to a remote server. I would like to use REBOL/View > so I can offer an easy > GUI for fiel browsing, selection and transfer. An > option I see using REBOL > are: > > -

[REBOL] Re: What computers are for (was: Perl is to stupid ...)

2001-12-18 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I hope this is a tongue-in-cheek comment! If not, > you are making the fatal error that practically > every computer scientist has made at one point or > another: expecting that human beings will modify > their behaviour to suit the computer rather

[REBOL] Re: Can a script run another script?

2001-12-17 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Andrew Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan wrote: > > The above works as a script unto itself, but > within the larger script, I > get the following error message... > > > > "Launch can only be used by launcher programs" in > a REBOL/View Dialog Box. > > > > Since 'launch is undocumented

[REBOL] Re: Perl is to stupid to understand this 1 liner.

2001-12-14 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #Friday 14 December 2001 18:17# Message from > Christopher Dicely: > > > > I haven't used parse much, but it seems like a > fairly > > trivial application of it. Well, no, it wasn't, and I actually meant to ba

[REBOL] Re: Perl is to stupid to understand this 1 liner.

2001-12-14 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Joel Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Doug, > > "Vos, Doug" wrote: > > > ... > > try this at the prompt. - Test for leap year > > >> 29-Feb-1999 > > ** Syntax Error: Invalid date -- 29-Feb-1999 > > ** Near: (line 1) 29-Feb-1999 > > > > However there is a leap year in 2000, > > so reb

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Been busy this week... still have to catch up on > emails...] > > chaz wrote: > > > Since a Tourist can carry baggage, wouldn't he be > a special case of a Mail > > Agent who can only carry his own objects? > > There are two differences: Mail

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- James Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Petr, > > Problems exist when you want agents to be able to > interact with each other > and their environment - it is the interaction itself > that can be a security > risk as stated earlier, hence the need for some > level of shell which is not

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World

2001-12-07 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Petr Krenzelok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Dicely wrote: > > > > >You could probably do it in /Core or /View with > >a seperate native program to handle launching > >that the REBOL could talk to via TCP/IP, but > >that limits port

[REBOL] Re: A REBOL challenge - The Information World

2001-12-06 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- James Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Gabriele, > > On further consideration REBOL is perhaps not the > safest choice of language for this sort of project > as there are lots of security issues involved due > to its self-modifying abilities. As best I can tell, given REBOL's usu

[REBOL] Re: Depth first search

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher Dicely
I'm pretty much a newbie, but can't you pass a reference using a literal word? I.e., instead of big-block: [ lots of data ] some-random-function big-block do something like: big-block: [ lots of data ] some-random-function 'big-block Chris Dicely --- Nate Haggard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[REBOL] Re: Elegant way to reference a function?

2001-12-04 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Patrick Philipot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be more practical, if I have a button like this > on a window. > > > button "show me" [display] > > I want the function display to be : > - a simple test function when debuging or > - a function that shows a photo or > - a function that dis

[REBOL] Re: Interesting plug-in code

2001-11-14 Thread Christopher Dicely
--- Paul Tretter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.reboltech.com/plugins.html for the REBOL > plugin. Right, but that doesn't tell us about the priority or progress on getting something that works with newer version of IE (which still supports plugin-like functionality via ActiveX, even t