World: r3wp

Note that in the first slide, it is simply VID code.  Slides can 
be referenced by their #id -- pres-face/goto #section-1

[OT a bit]

if you look at 'presentation' from the normal usage, like Powerpoint.. 
then there will always be a deficiency (my opinion).


But, presentation on a wider scale... think of your cable provider 
broadcasting 'ads' (or presentation etc) using some rebol based stuffs. 
iTV, STB... content provider will always abuse bandwidth. 


With bandwidth being commoditize, the key problem in the future is 
throughput. Concurrent demand for something some memory hungy content.

yes, but rebol can be efficient here - you do pass only a dialect 
... that is rebol's win

While other talk about semantic web, they talk, but we are there

yes, there is nothing stopping us.

but I do wish on better multimedia engine, and we know View can be 
optimised .... I already asked Carl to blog more on opening rebol, 
he agreed, but he told me first things first, so I expect him to 
do so once rebservices etc. are out ...

All I say, Petr, is don't let technical limitations inhibit your 
imagination...

Once Carl opens View, we need to invite Dave Haynie and Paul Nolan 
;-)

... that could be fun :-) We need to prepare for revolutionary PSX 
3 port ...

There you got it. PSX 3 great hw for what you need. Pekr, if what 
you want is to be able to display some flash and other type of static 
content. I already have a rebol remote controller for Firefox. With 
full screen support. I had work flawlessly for us. So content is 
product traditionally. We just let rebol synchro the files and tell 
the browser to display them.

remote controller for Firefox? How?

Graham: Here are the basic funcs. Enjoy. I had used and tested it 
on unix platforms only.

browser-pid: none
browser-path: %/home/mbaki/MozillaFirebird/
default-url: http://www.linkspot.com/
current-url: none

start-browser: has [command result] [

 command: rejoin [ {./MozillaFirebird -fullscreen -url } default-url 
 { &}]
	result: call/info command
	browser-pid: result/id + 7
	current-url: copy default-url
]

stop-browser: has [command] [
	command: rejoin [ {kill -9 } browser-pid]
	call/info command
	browser-pid: none
	current-url: none
]

visit-site: func [
	"Sets the site displayed by the browser."
	site [url!] 
	/local command result
][
	current-url: copy site

 command: rejoin [ {./MozillaFirebird -remote "openurl(} site {)"} 
 ]
	call/info command
]

active-site?: does [ current-url ]

browser-pid?: does [ browser-pid ]

change-dir browser-path
start-browser

thanks.  I didn't know Firefox took command line arguments

;-) Ssshh... Now you know one of my secrets.

Last night I had 5 gmail invites, now I have 49 gmail invites

invitation spam?  makes me feel googley all over.

Is there a way to type in an expression into Visual-Basic-Editor 
in Excel to get it evaluated? Something like the console in Rebol?

 -- Skipped a lot, may have been answered, but in VB (not VBA you 
 would use the debug window for this; sometimes called the "immediate" 
 window.

Jaime, that is very interesting.

Enter this into the address bar of Mozilla, and hit enter.. 

7 Carl's Blog

(Oh wait, you need to set up the bookmarks in Moz first.. see the 
°7° group)

Here's how to set up the bookmark.. 

1.) Open up Mozzila and under Bookmarks, hit "manage bookmarks"
2.) Click on "New Bookmark", 
	for name put "7"
	for location, enter "http://o7o.org/7=%s"  (without quotes)
	for keyword, use "7"
	click "OK"

Then try this as well. 
 7 Carl's blog : author

Details on how to remote control Firefox can be found here: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html

I've always found DocKimbel's VidBalls amazing.  See Rebol Desktop, 
Sites, DocKimbel, VidBalls.

terry, woa! Why not a 7search box for moz now ? :-)

anyone else have a blog site up with Carl's blog script?

Charles, search will be a predicate.

:-) http://abfhm.free.fr/basket.swf

Charles, I was looking at ConQuery for Mozilla and I'll definitely 
add a 'search plugin' for °7°.. looks handy.

Ok Charles, here's your 7 search plugin for moz...  http://powerofq.com/o7oCGR.zip

Unzip that into your mozilla/searchplugins folder.. restart Moz.


To use it, you can highlight any word, phrase or °7°, right click 
 and choose °7° (you can't miss it :)  This will perform a query 
on what you have highlighted.  For example, if you highlight "Carl 
Sassenrath" you will get all of the details regarding him.  Same 
goes for °Carl Sassenrath°  Of course, the result will be empty if 
there is no matching °7°.. have fun.

seems to have a lot of discussions going on these few days in various 
groups. Having  a hard time catching up ..

I'm skimming and skipping a lot to try and keep up.

Anybody know of a decent SDL-style gaming lib for REBOL?

I think if there was one, Brian, this search would turn up some discussion:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-search.r?q=sdl&mly-all=all
Still, some interesting stuff to read there.

ah, thanks. That gives me a good starting point

switching the search to "opengl" brought this up near the top: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlDHPC

Another score for rebol.org, thanks for the resource, sunanda :-D

well, *that* project link doesn't work, but at least I know stuff 
is out there somewhere

Happy New (Lunar) Year all :)

likewise

cool to see the list is waking up again :-)

Is there an existing Rebol function that will escape ascii from hex 
to char?  ie from %7C to | ?

There is nothing standard when it comes to ascii.. bin version, hex 
version, oct version, binary version, windows 2k version, windows 
XP version, IBM PC version, and many others, no doubt.  I have more 
lines of code dealing with ascii, then all the rest combined :(

(bin = decimal)

Don't think there is a built-in function for that.
Try this:
>> to-char base-convert/from-base "7c" 16
== #"|"
Base-convert.r is in the REBOL.org script library

Javascript has an escape/unescape function  ie  
document.write(unescape("%3C%73%63%72%69));

Sunanda, i need to replace escaped charaters in strings.. "Carl Sassenrath"

You'll probably need a parse pass then.
Or a replace loop.

I have a block of value pairs, and can do a foreach [ascii chara][replace/all 
..] but that seems rather crude

I find it curious that nothing exists in the library for this?  Every 
web page sending a GET request to a Rebol cgi script escapes this 
stuff.  Am i the only one that needs to deal with it?