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That's a frustrating one. It would be so beautiful if that were implemented...

Robert, you can see http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-system.html#section-10
for more insight on how pane functions work.

An iterated face function is there to save memory, so it must be 
executed every time the display is refreshed. It creates the illusion 
of many faces by moving one face around very quickly.
It does not create and position new faces like LAYOUT.

What LAYOUT allows you to do is set up the pane function that will 
be used afterwards when SHOW is used or VIEW is used and events start 
flowing.

Anton, maybe this is to way to do it? It seems to work:

change at image1 5x5 copy/part at image2 10x10 20x20

Using skip here seems to work aswell:

change at image1 5x5 copy/part skip image2 10x10 20x20

Yes, that is the way to do it.

Makes me wonder about the difference between 'at' and 'skip'. Both 
are actions.

1.

say I have: layout [a: tog true of 'panel b: tog of 'panel c: tog 
of 'panel]


what's the correct way for setting b to true so that a, b and c still 
behave as part of 'panel?

b to true = b/state to true

Henrik, this is the engage function for toggles:

engage: func [face action event][
    if find [down alt-down] action [
        if face/related [
            foreach item face/parent-face/pane [

                if all [flag-face? item toggle item/related item/related = face/related 
                item/data] [item/data: item/
state: false show item]
            ]
        ]
        face/data: face/state: not face/state

        either action = 'down [do-face face face/data] [do-face-alt face 
        face/data]
        show face
    ]
]

you should basically do the same thing (the foreach above)

Someone had contacted me a month or so ago and asked for my modified 
text-list and was looking to make some updates.  I don't recall who 
it was but if your here - can you tell me if you improved such.

paul, was that the one which supported custom colors per line?

I remember such a discussion, but that was 3-4 months ago. I didn't 
get anything done with it.

I'm working on a different implementation with a more advanced list 
system instead

pekr, have you any private solution to the face accessor problem 
you mention so often?

gabriele, thanks. it works now :-)

Henrik - no, I don't have any ....

I am more busy implementing some solutions so I only think loud from 
time to time :-)

ok, but I'm anxious for a patch solution right here, mostly so that 
I can access numerous face/text's through a single object

it would be nice to find a working equivalent to:
>>a: make object! [b: 1]
>>c: a/b
>>c: 2
>>a/b
== 2 ; but actually returns 1...

c: in a 'b
set c 2

ah, wonderful

not so wonderful:
>>layout [a: field "rebol" b: field "rules"]


>>fields: make object! [atext: in a 'text btext: in a 'text] ; how 
to bind a/text and b/text correctly?
>>fields/atext
== text ; word! incorrect

or:

>> fields: make object! compose [atext: (in a 'text)  btext: (in 
b 'text)]
>> fields/atext
== "rebol"

but then:
>>set in fields 'atext "test" ; incorrect way, apparently
>>fields/atext
== "test" ; good

>>a/text
=="rebol" ; but it didn't propagate back to the face....

layout [a: field "rebol" b: field "rules"]

fields: make object! [atext: in a 'text btext: in a 'text]

get fields/atext

ok, that works, and if I would want to traverse all textfields in 
one go I started with:

>> set fields/atext "test" ; which works for one field

for multiple fields, I want to set each fields from an object:

>> inserts: make object! [atext: "rebol" btext: "rocks!"]

>> foreach i next first fields [attempt [set get in fields i get 
in inserts i]]
>> show [a b]


Fields are now changed properly in one go. Now I need to show the 
values in the foreach loop. I also need to allow the elements in 
the inserts object to be of arbitrary order.

>> view/new layout [a: text "Hello" b: text "World"]
>> fields: reduce [in a 'text in b 'text]
== [text text]
>> set fields "New" show [a b]

Gabriele, interesting, but if I run

set fields "New" show [a b]

and do it multiple times with different strings, only the last one 
is set

hm... something with string lengths and the size of the textfield. 
:-) forget it.

set [a b c d] 1  ; this sets all of A B C and D to the same value, 
1.

set [a b c d] [1 2 3]   ; this sets A == 1, B == 2, C == 3, D == 
none.

ok, not thoroghly tested but:

set-faces: func [faces data] [
  set

    reduce foreach var faces [insert tail [] compose [in (var) 'text]]
    get data
  show faces
]

view layout [a: field b: field c: field d: field]
faces: copy [a b c d] ; generate this from the layout?

data: make object! [a: "Eeny" b: "Meeny" c: "Miney" d: "Mo"]

set-faces data faces ; whammo!

hmm, i think what your are trying to do is what the panel accessors 
do by default (warning: a bit bugged, but easily fixable)

>> layout [pan: panel [a: field "something" b: field "else"]]
>> print mold get-face pan
[a: "something" b: "else"]
>> set-face pan ["Hello" "World"]
>> print mold get-face pan
[a: "Hello" b: "World"]

set-face does not allow [a: ...] while it should. I have a fix for 
it if you are interested.

ok, I have to read up on 'panel first :-)

if it's documented...

you could set the window accessor object to the default panel accessor 
objects, so that you can do the above with the window directly too.

using panel is useful if you have more than one panel in the window.

hmm... it actually does exactly what I need

basically I'm interested in taking the contents of an object and 
put it in various faces in a layout in one go

what i do exactly.

my-access: make ctx-access/panel [
    set-face*: func [face value /local val][
        if all [block? face/pane block? value][
            either set-word? value/1 [
                foreach [word val] value [
                    set-find-var face/pane to word! word val
                ]
            ] [
                foreach f face/pane [

                    if any [find f/flags 'input find f/flags 'panel] [
                        if not empty? value [
                            set-face f value/1
                            value: next value
                        ]
                    ]
                ]
            ]
        ]
    ]
]

Gabriele should your fix make it to the default distribution ?

then use Panel with [access: my-access]

Jaime: it should. as soon as I get the chance to work on mezz code 
again.

with that you can do:   set-face panel third object