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Ok. Thanks! I had forgotten that.

Thank Socrates :)

Socrates wasn't a very good rebol programmer and could not have helped. 
Besides, he is dead and you are alive. At least I hope you're still 
alive since I still need more help.

refresh: func [/local amount total][ ;Anton's function
    total: 0
    foreach face out/pane [
        if face/style = 'monfld [ ; only money fields
            amount: any [attempt [to-money face/text] $0.00]
            if any [
                amount <> $0.00
                not empty? face/text
            ][
                face/text: form amount
            ]
            total: total + amount
        ]
    ]
    total-debits/text: form total
    show out ; updates all sub-faces at once
]

Hold on, more code to come.

style monfld field [refresh] 80x24
        style monfld2 field [refresh2] 80x24

        D0-amount: monfld 
        C0-amount: monfld2

the refresh2 function is just like refresh except 'monfld is replaced 
by 'monfld2

Now, how can D0-amount be copied into C0-amount automatically?

you can use the feel / engage events to detect key presses and call 
an update function..

or do you mean at init?

I mean that upon manually enter a dollar amount into the D0-amount 
field I want the same amount automatically entered into the C0-amount 
field.

enter = entering

use the feel/engage: func [f a e][if a = 'key [ ....]]

most people wait for the enter key then call an update to set the 
value in appropriate fields

I wouldn't use the style and just stick the function in the action 
block and do the copy there.

makes it too complicated, and then you don't remember what's going 
on.

D0-amount: monfld feel [engage: func [f a e][if a = 'key [if e/key 
= #"^M" [Co-amount/text: f/text ....

i reall y should avoid shorthand :(

But James, most people tab out of a field :)

lol

rebol/view is my refuge from the evils of Oracle and SQL Server development 
:)

what's the freebie oracle like?

Louis, I would add a refinement to the refresh function, which refers 
to a face.  And on that refinement, copy the data to the other face.

dunno.. use 10g Enterprise at work... now if only view had some fast 
professional looking widgets to act as a front end.. :(

Graham, this sentence can have two meanings: "I wouldn't use the 
style and just stick the function in the action block and do the 
copy there." Would you please reword it?

perhaps that won't work.

Anyway, I don't use styles myself ... too lazy.

Anyway, ICarii's solution doesn't catch tabs ( you can add that ), 
and also clicking to get out of the field.

now that we have rebcode, are we going to see your editor reborn?

I think styles are necessary in this case.  I have two colums of 
field (a debit column and a credit column). As data is entered into 
a column it has to be added to a total field at the bottom.

Was it Terakahi or flounder or something...s

ICarii and Graham, I need an example. I don't know much about view.

ICarii, please replace "...." with the rest of what you had in mind.

As Graham Point out, its not good to use 'style facet because you 
can have several faces of the same style.

What you want is to "link" style together : this is the role of the 
'related facet.
You usually use it with check/radio/toggle to group them.
To specifie a group, you use the 'of keyword in VID :

 View layout [radio of 'one radio of 'one radio of 'two radio of 'two 
 radio of 'two]

So just change your refesh function to test the face/related facet 
instead of style.

This way you can have some fileds in the 'debit group and others 
in the 'credit group

DideC, thanks. I'll do some studying and see if I can figure out 
what you mean. Problem is that I haven't been getting to do much 
programming during this past year, and I have forgotten much of what 
litte I knew.  :>(

When scaling an image, other than using the "effect: [aspect]", are 
there other controls for the anti-aliasing?

AA scaling currently only works with DRAW, afaik

Thanks. Now I need to check out Draw.

Louis: an example of what I say. I hope its what you need:

refresh: has [amount credit debit][
    debit: credit: 0
    foreach face out/pane [
        if find [credit debit] face/related [ ; only money fields
            amount: any [attempt [to-money face/text] $0.00]

            if any [amount <> $0.00  not empty? face/text] [face/text: form amount]
            if face/related = 'credit [credit: credit + amount]
            if face/related = 'debit [debit: debit + amount]
        ]
    ]
    total-debits/text: form debit
    total-credits/text: form credit
    show out
]

view out: layout [
	style c-field field [refresh] of 'credit
	style d-field c-field of 'debit
	style lab text 200 bold
	across
	lab "Credit" lab "Debit" return
	c-field d-field return
	c-field d-field return
	c-field d-field return
	lab "Total credit" lab "Total debit" return
	total-credits: field total-debits: field
]

Henrik, the answer was to use Draw as it really accomplishes what 
I originally wanted.
 Thanks.

DideC, many many thanks.  I try that and let you know how it works. 
 It may be a day or so, however, as I am traveling in a motorhome, 
and don't always have internet access.  Again thanks!

Has anyone run into a problem with "save" as in save/png where it 
sometimes doesn't want to overwrite a file? THe old file contents 
(in this case an image) is still there.

James, I sometime have problems with cache, I think. Try closing 
your rebol window and then look at the saved file. Sometime I reboot 
my machine to be 100% sure. At most times, I have no problem, so 
I haven't investigated it.

Henrik, can you show us the code (or a cut down demo) of your list 
?

I threw the code out. It's been replaced by the standard LIST function 
in layout

it was way too memory hungry and the code was about 800 lines. it 
also took about 25 lines to initialize one list.

That's the spirit! Only use the past to learn from. If use've made 
bad decisions, change them the second you realize, they're wrong. 
Cut the crap and throw out the garbage.
We're real rebels! ;-)

Or as Carl put it in the "Tech News" group on the 19-Sep: 

I say: Push forward and ignore the noise, recruit newbies, use the 
great ideas, dump the rest.