[REBOL] Re: Portability - song of the past?

2002-08-03 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Carl, particular platform, and you want it now, you will have to pay for it, because there are other ppl paying for other things to be done. So, what's it cost to have RT port REBOL or View to a platform? Maybe users without could have a whip-round. Just a reprise of my old woe:

[REBOL] Re: The big idea of Rebol

2002-06-02 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Andrew, Everything is a dialect. It was my Zen Moment from 1/June/2002. Other big ideas are: LISP: Everything is a list. Everything is an object (should be communicated purely by messages): Smalltalk. Although it is not a typed language, its interactive graphic environment (full GUI

[REBOL] Re: Strange array behavior

2002-05-23 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Joel, Ingo, Nenad, Gregg and Andrew Thank you all for your feedback and the different solutions to the problem. Now I see that this was really a bug in 'array but the circumvention of this problem is rather easy! -- Bye, Gezamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[REBOL] Strange array behavior

2002-05-21 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hi REBOL-fellows! Why does not properly work this code segment: a: array/initial [3 2] [[]] == [[[] []] [[] []] [[] []]] append a/1/2 3 == [3] a == [[[3] [3]] [[3] [3]] [[3] [3]]] Hmmm, I' ve expected at querying 'a : == [[[] [3]] [[] []] [[] []]] Maybe the prototype initial value is a

[REBOL] Re: Hungarian Alphabet Sort (was Re: Collation sequence -proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?)

2002-05-17 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Scott In this case, the pattern has a bit more information: a=ábccsde=éfggyhi=í...zzs where a can be told to sort the same as a with acute, both of these sort before b ... and zs sorts after z Actually aá and eé ... more clearly aá and eé. In some relaxed situtations the equivalence

[REBOL] Re: Hungarian Alphabet Sort (was Re: Collation sequence -proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?)

2002-05-13 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Scott! The right order for Hungarian vowels: actually the diaresis characters This was easy to fix. ... as you have prospectively pointed it out in your first post :-) Time to go back to the drawing board. I already have an idea, but it may take a while before I have some time to

[REBOL] Re: Collation sequence - proper and efficient sorting ofnational accented chars?

2002-05-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello G., Let me know if you have any questions. Good luck. Huhh, pretty scary task NOT to be a REBOLer Englishman ;-) I will try some mapping - it seems the most obvious way to me. Besides I would like to sort first names: as a loose (lousy, lazy etc ;-) ) solution it would suffice to map the

[REBOL] Re: Hungarian Alphabet Sort (was Re: Collation sequence -proper and efficient sorting of national accented chars?)

2002-05-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Scott, Thanx, cute solution! Though my critical comments :-) : The right order for Hungarian vowels: actually the diaresis characters come first and then the double acute ones (only o and u have double accents in the Hungarian alphabet): oOóÓöÖõÕ uUúÚüÜûÛ Unfortunately the

[REBOL] Collation sequence - proper and efficient sorting of national accentedchars?

2002-05-11 Thread Geza Lakner MD
national accented characters (which would be otherwise at the very end of the English alphabet :-( ) ? -- Best regards, Geza Lakner MD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject

[REBOL] Re: Iterated check box anomaly (resend) - now, the ROTARY!

2002-05-06 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Anton, Title: Iterated Rotarys File: %iterated-rotarys.r Nice idea nevertheless, thank you! This way also changing (state, face text stc.) iterated items are easily implementable! Although the iterated list seems to be more than a bit awkward than any others found in streamlined

[REBOL] Re: Iterated check box anomaly (resend) - now, the ROTARY!

2002-05-05 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Anton, Don't listen to that negative stuff. Here seems to be a solution. Tell me if it works. Thank you, it really works! But ... :-)) Now I am stuck with a more complex structure, namely the rotary. I tried several initialization strategies, some of them even did not let to rotate

[REBOL] VID List 'supply function and dynamic widget reinitialization

2002-04-23 Thread Geza Lakner MD
widget in a list could be used to store its state, and the supply routine could read this state and redraw the screen element accordingly. I thought, the kind of reinitialization I used int the above is useful, but it seems, it is not :-( -- Best regards, Geza Lakner MD

[REBOL] Re: Rebol : The Official Guide

2002-04-16 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Gawain, Other good documentation is unfortunately rare. There only are 4 books ... Olivier Auverlot: Programmation REBOL. A french book from Edition Eyrolles. From the Eyrolles site you can download some sample chapters and the source code of the examples. I've just bought it in

[REBOL] Re: Iterated check box anomaly

2002-04-13 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Romano, First I tried toggles instead of check boxes, but selecting one of them caused to redraw all toggles below the selected one in selected Should be the same, never tryed, but you must think that, when supply is called, all the changed field are in an unknown state: you must

[REBOL] Iterated check box anomaly

2002-04-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello REBOLers! I have a question upon a strange behavior of an iterated check box. The list contains a checkbox and an explanatory text per row. Here is the code snippet: a: copy [] q: [ [1 Setup] [2 Install] [3 Post-install] [4 Run] ] view layout [

[REBOL] Re: Info on 'list style

2002-04-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Alan, Here is a quite simple simple solution: rebol [] m-l-c: [ [from1 subject1 contents1] [from2 subject2 contents2] [from3 subject3 contents3] ] view layout [ below list 550x180 [ btn: button [probe reform [btn/text fld1/text

[REBOL] Re: Iterated check box anomaly

2002-04-12 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Romano, you must re-initialize the check data field: if index = 1 [face/data: find a face/text] Hmmm, tricky ;-) Thank you very much, it is a great idea! BTW What is the exact timing of the 'supply function, i.e. on what occasion (event) will it be launched? As far as I

[REBOL] Re: Size of Rebol binary?

2002-04-10 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello rebolinth, I see.., rebol is remarkeble small, but I think we forget that it is realy is just a fine compressed binary, wich expands in memory like a baloon. Maybe it is compressed (actually I don't think so - it doesn't look like a compressed binary), but God, not with a remarkable

[REBOL] Re: Strange crash upon SECOND SYSTEM/WORDS

2002-01-28 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Gabriele, Actually, the problem is with the hidden MOLD that the console code does; i.e. when you type SECOND SYSTEM/WORDS at the console, the result gets molded and printed out. And FIRST SYSTEM/WORDS doesn't use a hidden MOLD ? It should ... the can be no such a big difference between

[REBOL] Re: Strange crash upon SECOND SYSTEM/WORDS

2002-01-28 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Romano, a: copy second system/words 1 == 1 Which keep only a fraction of second (my slow system can make 50-100 of them in a second). ... and when you next enter a - THEN crashes! The strangeness esclates IMHO, because it seems that although the binding of 'a happens in the first

[REBOL] Strange crash upon SECOND SYSTEM/WORDS

2002-01-26 Thread Geza Lakner MD
system/words [ (snip) How else could I extract the 'type? information of all words ? -- Best regards, Geza Lakner MD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the subject, without

[REBOL] Re: Strange crash upon SECOND SYSTEM/WORDS

2002-01-26 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Larry, foreach word first system/words [ print [form word type? get/any in system/words word] ] Very nice and compact solution - really the REBOLish way ... :-) Thanx, this was what I've been looking for! -- Best regards, Gezamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[REBOL] Global/local strangenesses - Was: Crash upon SECOND SYSTEM/WORDS

2002-01-26 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Larry, however I have noticed a few other cases of things working inside functions but not globally. Could you share with us these strange experiences? -- Best regards, Gezamailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to

[REBOL] Re: Using a printer in Windows

2002-01-15 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Andrew, you found the solution of the problem of printing 1 year ago, using javascript and html. Here's your code. I didn't test it but it sounds good. REBOL [ Title: Auto printing via Browser. File: %HTML Print.r It is really a very elegant way - but what about page breaks? In

[REBOL] BNF grammar of REBOL for code obfuscator

2001-12-17 Thread Geza Lakner MD
spartanian and does not destructure a REBOL script this way (although its syntax coloring purpose might have suggested so). Thanx for your commitment of ideas! -- Best regards, Geza Lakner MD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send

[REBOL] Text list - re-showing widget with PICKED at the top position

2001-11-27 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello REBOLers, A very undocumented feature, again ;-) : How can I arrange that after programatically selecting the PICKED element from the text list, the widget redraws itself with the PICKED element at the top of the list? More generally, how can I set the slider of a text-list in a way that

[REBOL] REP #2 - multiple set - usefulness (was:Re: REBOLEnhancement Proposals (REPs))

2001-09-28 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello Joel, The logical and straightforward way unfortunately does not work: set [a/b/c d/e] [1 2] Just for clarification... Could you explain why you would prefer the above SET expression to the following? a/b/c: 1 d/e: 2 When I have a screen form and I have a database I

[REBOL] Making new infix operators ?

2001-04-20 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hello, REBOLers ! Just for a bit of "syntactic sugar" :-): Is it possible to define new infix operators ? I tried : ||: make op! ... etc. ** Script Error: Cannot use make on datatype! value It would be a very nice feature ( la Prolog, or C++) to define (or "overload") some operators.

[REBOL] REBOL/View text list refresh from code

2001-01-29 Thread Geza Lakner MD
Hi to All ! My problem is the following: In a same layout I have two text lists. If someone points an item in the first list I want to trigger a change of the contents of the second text list. Unfortunately neither the /text nor /data refinements don't work for dynamically setting a text list