World: r3wp

So, it used to, but not now?  I'm surprised it ever did.

up till about March 2004 it did.

Then it changed.

Well, that's not good. Is it listed as a bug in RAMBO?

Carl, regarding no longer a one man band...

Anything to announce on the arrangement you have made with these 
members of the community?  Is it a permanent one or temporary, etc?

Just posted it this morning.

We live by RAMBO --- so if it's not there, it's not likely to be 
fixed.

I hear the dinner bell....

By the way... to see you up for air ;-)

I don't.

Before you eat .. when can we see a new SDK?

So... will check back again after dinner....

Parts of the SDK are being posted. More very soon.

BB in a while. Bye!

Great news there.

Is the source for the Rebol text editor available anywhere?

The basic one in Rebol/View Desktop, that is.

for an older version in the published desktop-source.

and you can get the source from console. dont run the editor before, 
save %edi.r ctx-edit IIRC.

ok, am I understanding this correctly?


1. Find and download the older desktop-source (which I guess includes 
edi.r)
2. Start Rebol/View and issue the command 
    %edi.r ctx-edit

Right?

No ;)

oh :-D

with the source you need only that edit.r

but the source is included in the exe too.

so you can basically source it. since it is somewhat long, better 
save ;)

the real source may have some comments more, but more effort to get.

(at least that was the way with the old exes, not tried with the 
new)

hm. Okay, I get lots of code with "source ctx-edit", but I can't 
figure out how to get it into a file. I keep trying stuff like --> 
write %edit.r source ctx-edit

That dumps the source to the console and throws an error about 'write 
missing an arg

No, its just a block. simply save it. dont use 'source.

thats why i said "basically source".

the you need also "source editor". this time really source, because 
it is small. ;)

ah, so it is :-)

'editor looks for ctx-edit and if it a block, it makes it a context 
(saves a bit memory when not used.

so you must dump ctx-edit and call it ctx-edit again.
 save %edi.r compose/only[ ctx-edit: (ctx-edit) ] ; not tested.

Hey, sweet. Who made Rebol highlighting work for Crimson Editor?

Perfect! Thanks, Volker.

Anyone know what happened to all the registry functions in View 1.3?


   create-reg      native!   Creates a registry key and returns TRUE 
   on success...

   delete-reg      native!   Deletes a registry key. Returns TRUE if 
   deleted. (...

   exists-reg?     native!   Returns TRUE if registry key exists. (HKCU 
   is defa...

   get-reg         native!   Returns value of a registry key, else NONE. 
   (HKCU ...

   list-reg        native!   Returns a block of sub-keys for a registry 
   key. (H...

   set-reg         native!   Sets registry key value. Returns value 
   on success,...
   unset-reg-funcs function! []

I hope they aren't gone for good!

registry access wasn't for user REBOL/View - it's a Windows only 
/Command feature. As they are used in installation, these were exposed 
in alpha/beta builds, but "internal" funcs aren't available in official 
release...
You can note the registry access is/was incomplete: 
- only string! datatype is available, not dword

- how one lists the values under a key? 'list-reg only returns sub-keys, 
not values.

Yeah I posted a feedback asking for more support with windows registry 
and especially remote registry capabilities since many of the things 
I do are accessing remote computers in the enterprise.

please could it be done someway, that Desktop (or even upgrade function) 
would include auto-installatiion? If no installation was performed, 
then it would just switch .exes. So - new .exe would be downloaded. 
It would be launched, first running instance ended, new one copied 
to the place of first one, launched, and downloaded version deleted?

It is already nice we are offered new version, but would be even 
cooler if it would offer (we can ask user for that) to install after 
download. btw - change those old buttons on the upgrade dialog box, 
as it is incompatible with new button look we use for Dekstop ...

I think the upgrade utility should drop the acknowledgement "name 
of the file" part as it looks sloppy because I saved the file as 
"view2.exe" because the currently file couldn't be overwritten and 
it said I saved the file as "view.exe".  Just gives a bad impression 
of what else might be buggy.

Paul re: Windows Registry you might want to look up / find Frank 
Sievertsen's RegEdit.  It was dated 21-8-01

http://www.rebol.org/library/scripts-download/registry.r

Make sure any requests for changes get into RAMBO, otherwise they 
may fall through the cracks.

MikeL and Ashley thanks - I have used Frank's registry.r before but 
think that RT should just add those in and expand them a bit as they 
work very well.

Gregg:  I asked for these in a feedback before so I assume its not 
very high on the priority list.

..and probably didn't make it through to RAMBO and may have got lost.

Are there any plans (or capabilities that I don't know about) to 
have menu navigation from the services line of the View Desktop?