World: r3wp

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?

Most of us just need to do it the other way around -- and that's 
automatic:
>> to-url "carl S"
== carl S

Terry  --forget all that.
Try
  dehex

hmm :)

I need to read the Rebol dictionary more often ;)

So do I :-)

It's not a perfect solution, I still need a block of values to handle 
odd browser escaping.. for example, when you add a © to  a url, Mozilla 
escapes it with "%C2%A9"  .. adding that extra ascii character for 
some reason.

Add to that mess things like html forms replacing spaces with  "+" 
 .. "Carl+Sassenrath"  .. what a mess.

Take a look at 'dehex

>> dehex {%41%42%43}
== "ABC"

Terry, for want of a better way to handle this -- if you add the 
'accept-charset' attribute to the <form> tag, it will encode the 
way you want it:
accept-charset="windows-1252,iso-8859-1"

Otherwise, it defaults to what I assume is a Unicode pair for extended 
characters.

This just in .. Prince Charles to Marry Camilla Parker Bowles.. remember 
.. you heard it here first.

hmm.. and if Prince Charles ascends the throne in due course, he 
will head of the church of england?

That's the big debate at the moment.

The news is almost as big as http://maps.google.com/