World: r3wp

I tried to download the LIbc6 View 2.7.7 from the main download page 
to check. The file name is http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v277/rebol-view-277-4-2.tar.gz
but it contained this :
REBOL/View 2.7.6.4.2 15-Mar-2008
Copyright 2000-2008 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies. WWW.REBOL.COM

Carl should be notified on R3 chat about that.

What's wrong?

wrong View version packaged.

I thought it might have been done in response to the error Gabriele 
posted.

I post a message to Carl on R3 when I'm back at the Linux machine.

Hi Gabriele, thats working for me. No segmentation fault. Open a 
window, with a white box and a blak triangle. Kubuntu 9.10, Rebol 
View 2.7.7.4.3

blak --> black

Manu, thanks, so it's probably not a "simple" bug.

(I must say though that I'm using the 4.2 version here, as the 4.3 
did not work. Maybe the 4.2 only has the bug?)

REBOL/View 2.7.7.4.2 6-Jan-2010
Copyright 2000-2010 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies. WWW.REBOL.COM

REBOL/View 2.7.7.4.3 5-Jan-2010
Copyright 2000-2010 REBOL Technologies.  All rights reserved.
REBOL is a trademark of REBOL Technologies. WWW.REBOL.COM

That's funny, 5-Jan-2010 --> 2.7.7.4.3, 6-Jan-2010 --> 2.7.7.4.2

Why funny? the third number means OS and the fifth some OS subtype.

Sorry, I was thinking the fourth and fifth number were subrelease 
number

Some Plug-computer experience: I use one as the replacement for DroboShare 
(which is crap and damn slow). So I have set it up to be my file-server 
where a Drobo Storage Array is attached too. All conected via Giga-Ethernet, 
using AFP and Bonjoure.

DroboShare speed was between 5-10 MB/s. Now I have 30MB/s for read 
& write over the network. So this thing flies!

How long did it take to arrive?

And what version of rebol can you run on it?

I ordered mine in UK. 3-4 days.

Rebol: It's ARM based... so not yet. But waiting to get R3 running 
on it. It's running Linux so porting should be pretty straight forward.

There is an version of rebol that runs on Arm.

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything (i.e.): text font-size 30 "Hello". 
Any advice or tips?

Using REBOL 2 with vid on Linux (CentOS 5.4 / GNOME). Doesn't seem 
like the font-size does anything.

Oh boy, didn't mean to do that. Looks like AltME in VMWare on CentOS 
had some initial weirdness as well. Sorry about that!

If you click on the send button N times, it will submit the message 
N times. Not a great feature.

Yeah, I hit enter and nothing happened, so I thought it was stuck. 
Looks like it was just busy doing something in the background and 
queueing up my enters.

I prefer enabling the little pencil. That moves sending to Ctrl-S 
and allows you to enter multiple lines of text.

About your font problem: It's been a while, but do you have the correct 
fonts installed? I'm not sure which ones are needed.

This is a stock CentOS 5.4 install running GNOME. Not sure which 
fonts are needed. However, things like h1, h2 in vid do change the 
font size of the text, but using font-size with say the text command 
does nothing.

Same simple script on Windows works just fine.

do the fonts look pixellated when using large fonts?

Yes.

ok, some fonts are missing, then. I think you need to install the 
default X11 fonts for it to work.

If it doesn't work, then I have no solution.

I have X11 fonts installed (I think):  xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2.1.el5, 
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5, etc..

ok

it may help if you switch to a particular font. the X11 fonts are 
bitmapped fonts AFAIK and if there are no fonts in between in a particular 
size, it will look bad.

For example, using font-name?

Any way to see within REBOL which fonts it does see?

if you look at face/font, you can see the specs for the font

I'm not sure. It makes a distinction between sans, serif and mono 
fonts, but beyond that it uses some built-in default names, if the 
font requested, can't be found.

Interesting. On Windows I get Arial by the default, in Linux it looks 
like it picked Helvetica.

Where is the default specified and how is it obtained?

I don't know, but:

? font

and:

source set-font

look a little interesting

? face/font

IIRC, 'face is a generic face used for creating the others in VID