World: r3wp

try 

clear head mydropdowndata/data

if using rebgui

Sometimes, not sure with dropdown data, you need to update the line-list 
facet as well. A few styles force you to work with their internals 
this way, when doing more than simple UIs.

In View 2.7.7.3.1, get-net-info function gives the following error:
** Script Error: get-reg has no value
** Where: get-net-info
** Near: def-mailer: get-reg/hkcr "mailto\shell\open\command" ""

I guess GET-NET-INFO is some left over from REBOL's boot and should 
be unset when it finish. It's same as in 2.7.6

I see, thanks.

I'm having trouble changing the scroller size (i.e. width) for the 
text-list style. Changing the font size was easy enough. I'm trying 
to make it bigger to accommdate fat fingers on a touch screen display. 
Has anyone done this before? Thanks.

print mold svv/vid-styles/text-list/init

Note the hardcoded size 16x0.

You just need to patch that.

Anton, that worked great. Thanks.

stylize/master [
	fat-list: text-list with [
		use [blk][
			init: copy init
			blk: copy select init [pane: layout/size]
			replace/all blk 16x0 32x0
			change/only find/tail init [pane: layout/size] blk
		]
	]
]


view center-face layout [fat-list "Is the scroller" "fat enough?"]

Oh, you already did it.

Yes, but yours is more elegant than the crude patch job I just did 
to the actual text-list style. :)

It depends on if you need the original text-list style unmodified 
alongside your patched version. If you intend merging in other code, 
then it's better to derive a new style. If not, then it doesn't matter.

I decided to leave the original style alone and use your fat-list 
definition for the reasons you stated. Thanks.

When writing a spreadsheet/grid, is it better to give each cell a 
name, or work out the location based on  a grid reference?

I would say both of them, but are you talking about the user interface 
of the style or something else ?

accessing cells programmatically .. ie. populating them with data

Both make sense. We use a name generator on our RebGUI grid implementation, 
the nice thing about this is, that it's position independent. If 
the column order etc. changes, the names stay the same.

If you expect to support large, dense, spreadsheets, you may want 
to minimize storage by having a name mapping interface. If the target 
is small/medium/sparse sheets, having the name explicit for each 
cell may be practical. In any case, having a alias system would be 
nice, for named cells and ranges.

>> view layout [
[     box white 327x327 draw [
[          pen logo.gif fill-pen off box 100x100 300x300
[         ]
[    ]
** Script Error: draw expected image argument of type: image pair
** Where: do-facets
** Near: draw [
    pen logo.gif fill-pen off box 100x100 300x300
]

...but this is an example from the Wiki docs : http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Pen

It error out with 2.7.7,  1.3.1, 1.2.8 so whats-up ? Is this just 
R3 Draw capability ?

you are missing the EFFECT facet in your code (the DRAW block is 
inside EFFECT block in R2) so the correct way is:

 view layout [
     box white 327x327 effect [draw [
          pen logo.gif fill-pen off box 100x100 300x300
         ]]
    ]

Oh my god. sorry for the mistake. Jumping from R2 to R3 syntax make 
me dumb.

Is there a way to set focus on a field and then send some characters 
into the keyboard buffer or something to simulate key strokes?

Or, should I be looking at some windows macro programs?

you can in glass ;-)

unfortunately I can't rewrite 1000s of lines to just solve one issue

the standard view doesn't have programmable events.  but you can 
set the field's data after focus...

that doesn't work .. so I'm thinking some key recorder or something

what do you mean it doesnt work?

it's a RebGUi issue

there's a bug in my widget and i have to stuff one character in it, 
delete it and then insert the characters I want

I don't think you can insert a del

or backspace ...

you can't generate events in normal view R2.

though you can call a face's feel if you want.

just build an object with the same fields as an event and it will 
work  :-)

is there a windows key stroke recorder?

yeah it exists.  just google it.

hmm...maybe something else.  just control the mouse and the keyboard 
buffer

I thought Gregg did some Api work with windows... can't find it by 
googling.

Leaving all RebGUI specialities aside, can't you just patch the widgets 
FEEL/ENGAGE to allow objects being passed to it? If there is a point 
where you're in control to FOCUS the face in question, that may be 
possible.

I can't actually get focus to the face either :(

My old send-keys stuff should be around somewhere. If not, let me 
know and I'll zap it to you.

did it not rely on the console being opened to work?

Gregg, please send it to me

Graham, sent.

Thanks .. looks like send-keys solves my problem too :)  I needed 
to send a backspace to a rebgui field to initialize it and this works