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im not sure that is for faces..

Gregg has some >> ? confine
USAGE:
    CONFINE offset size origin margin

DESCRIPTION:

     Return the correct offset to keep rectangular area in-bounds.
     CONFINE is a function value.

ARGUMENTS:
     offset -- Initial offset (Type: pair)
     size -- Size of area (Type: pair)
     origin -- Lower bound (upper left) (Type: pair)
     margin -- Upper bound (lower right) (Type: pair)

I'm sure it was intended for faces...

:-)

Ill try that one again ..lets see if i can get it working with my 
faces..

I use confine and snapping in my drag-feel this script. though it 
isn't very pretty code example. http://www.rebolforces.com/plugin/gridlock.r

I thought yo might come up with an exmaple ;-) Ill have a look allen 
;-)

nice puzzle BTW !!!

ill check that code if you dont mind me to ;-)

Can someone explain me a little closer the use of  'SPAN inside a 
face. Its not quiet clear to me yet..

I believe that it has been depreciated but the idea was to have the 
face scale to the size of a window so that a large face will display 
similarly on a large display (say, 1024x768) as it does on a smaller 
display setting like 800x600

oke thanks !

Another question

Is it possible to create transparent faces? A face over a face.. 
So not an image!

Yes, set the color of the face to NONE

thats very transparent ;-)

If SAVED-AREA is true then it won't recalculate the transparency 
on redraw...

I just need a little color in it but the backface needs to be visual 
through the front face...

I thought saved-area was for images only ?

Color: none effect: [colorize what-ever-color]

Saved-Area is for saving the transparent area of a face...

Thanks Ammon !!

If you set it to true then it gets replaced (changed from a Logic! 
value to an Image! value) with the background or transparent area 
of the face so that the background doesn't recalculate itself...

You're welcome!

:)

On all things View, the best reference that I have seen yet is http://www.dobeash.com/it/rebgui/

The information I just gave is available there...

heee i dont know that url ;-) Thanks again!

NP

HA !

There it is !! the FormDesigner ...

is was searching for that one for a long time...

Wasnt there an GUI builder too ?

Uhm...  There have been a number of them built but none of them have 
passed Alpha stage if they ever actually hit what could be called 
Alpha...

Yes i think that was 3 years ago...

never heard anything from it again

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=layout-1.8.r

I played a little with a script that Carl wrote to demonstrate how 
to build a GUI builder but ultimately decided to rebuild my own.

I had Bo build me an engine for creating faces for the IDE I'm writing 
but have since decided to use GLayout as my GUI engine which makes 
the engine Bo wrote obsolete.

Glayout ??

Mmmm

http://www.rebol.it/~steel/is the homepage for GLayout...

aaa Right... yes i know that, but i actualy never used it...

It is getting better and better as we improve it for use in Anvil...

lets have a look again then ;-)

Scrollpanes are in the middle of getting a revamp which will include 
an enhancement or two to the layout engine itself but the revamp 
isn't available yet...

the complete website has a new layout too ;-)

ill have a closer look

Mmm still no luck on making 1 face transparent when it moves over 
another face..

I tried different thinks but no result on transparentcy with color.. 
Or its 100% transparent or not ;-)