World: r3wp

Steve; Check out RebGUI.  anim widgets can do multiframe gifs

They can? anim just cycles a block of images. Source is here out 
of interest:

	http://trac.geekisp.com/rebgui/browser/widgets/anim.r

Yeah, just feed the anim data [(first gif) (second gif) (third gif) 
...] for how many frames there are.  :)

I guess I should have mentioned that.

thanks, that is helpful...it is simple and is similar enough.  One 
thing I was wondering was if I have to do a load or not from ram...or 
a copy.   still experimenting.  I was trying a make image! to clone 
each picture..

well, a 1000 frames does show up as 43.2 Megabytes...so it seems 
the size is there in RAM.

So, this should be a valid test.  This SHOULD mean I can play a minute 
videa in less than a second.

My original tests indicated that.

My main question is really how to best assemble gifs to make the 
anim up, rather than how to play.  I am mostly looking at RView 1.3 
at the moment with it's image! datatype.  I thought I saw a bit of 
document which had a simple line of the way to append (or whatever) 
the images into a block or whatever.

If you have an animated GIF, try just using the standard ANIM style 
in VID; I thought it played them. Creating the animated GIF is a 
different story, but if you have a bunch of images, or a motion JPG 
file/stream, it's easy to parse and play.

yes.  but what I am doing is creating one, and REBOL doesn't always 
copy things, so the resultant sequence doesn't play.

It seems like all the image data is just one value of rgb.

Aha! got that warm spot of the exact right words in REBOL to get 
the right things in the right place at the right time.  Whew!  Thanks 
for the ideas.

My animation style was for animated-Gif *level* animations.  You 
still need all frames stacked up on each other in a single image 
file.  Unfortunately not the way anim-gif creation programs work...

I found the silver bullet.  Thanks for all the ideas.  I ended up 
usng append.  Nothing fancy, just it takes me extra time to get the 
data structure so it works, and the code was pretty tense in many 
aspects.  I do remember some doc that had a note about making .gif 
anims from REBOL but still haven't found.

Chris, your code, presentations, examples are alwayts top-notch. 
 I learn a LOT reading through them...and enjoy watching them too.

Some time we gotta catch up.

What is the latest Revision of Rebol/View with async? 2.5.53 or higher?

How do you set the toggle style back to it's initial state ?

toggle/state: false

2.5.53 might have been it Steve.

nope, tried that already.

toggle/state: none?

excluding the question mark of course

Oops ..reading it wrong.  Works.

reset-face should also work

does anyone know how to preset a drop-down inside the layout block?

data: ["1" "2" "3"]


view [drop-down data <something here to set the drop-down to "2">]

sorry, view layout [...

been using R3 too much :-)

figured it out using:
http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/gui/demo-drop-down.r

How do you do it? I was checking anamonitor but these kinds of things 
are mysteries to me.

d: ["1" "2" "3"]

view [drop-down data d with [text: d/2][

should be ], not [

but worse, I need it in a list and the popup is covered by the panel 
size.

Yeah, I had that before.

need an alternate solution

I end up with long windows. : (

has anyone made an alternate drop down using unbordered windows?

For those kinds of things I end up usinga thing call list-view : 
) or just the text-list when I can go lo-tech.

it won't really help here, because I'm still going to be using panels 
which will limit the face size

And you can't scroll?

no. impossible.

Can you split the list up?

it's a big vertical list of dropdowns

can't do anything like that. the drop down has to be independent 
on the restrictions of the layout it's sitting in.

Have you guys tried Ammon's drop down?  It works a little nicer than 
the default.

(this would be very simple in VID3!)

Ammon's uses unbordered windows

ohh, nice. where is it?

atleast I think  the list will span outside of the parent face.

It's in the script library at rebol.org