World: r3wp

I would like to participate but an not sure what to turn to: for 
now I am using 2.7.6 and only have a couple of quirks.  Is there 
a link to dev base?

Are you on the R2-Beta world? That is where the work is happening.

not at altme

I am working most every day in R 276 now ...

Is Font redering involved for Linux in the  testings?  Latest news 
on AGG fonts for linux was that it was not working, although I had 
it working once in a special /view version.. Looks now its not fixed 
yet.. No problem, but would be nice to have some kind of official 
statement in the docs for /view /sdk how that works/is fixed/not 
works.

Fonts work on Debian distros.  I tested on Ubuntu.

On distros where it is not working, we are waiting on Cyphre to fix 
this.

Yes Graham it works here too ;-) but must be explicit defined with 
make font:
rebol []

fnt1: make face/font [
        name: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/VeraMono.ttf"
        size: 32
]
fnt2: make face/font [
        name: "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf"
        size: 32]

view layout [
        origin 0
        box 400x100 effect [
                draw [
                        pen black
                        font fnt1
                        text anti-aliased 0x0 "Rebol Rulez!"
                        pen blue silver
                        fill-pen red
                        line-pattern 10 10
                        line-width 2
                        font fnt2
                        text vectorial 0x30 "Rebol Rulez!"
                ]
        ]
]



I took me some time to find this Issue again...

Yes, you have to specify the path to the font.

[Cyphre example]..other applications dont work because of the font 
path issue ..indeed ;-)

Which other applications?

If they're Rebol source .. they can be fixed correct?

this "path" is not documented anywehere...

;-) Thats the issue... the source ;-)

Perhaps we need a font map ?

Isn't there a standard way on Linux to specify the font cache?  Perhaps 
Rebol could read this...

[mmmm..think....think...]

I could emagine parsing the xorg.conf and look for the font paths...

fonts.cache ?

but thats only for X11

fonts.cache?.. Mmmm..checking..

Yes then you have indeed a font map...

And what about the system fonts for rebol? Will these be ttf one 
day...or is that moved to R3 finaly?

Graham... Is your Synapse-char project still active?

The chat?  No, that has died.

For reasons I don't understand .. it stopped working and I didn't 
have time to debug it.

The source is still downloadable if anyone wants to figure out why 
it no longer works.

aa pitty.. because there is quiet some code in there.. but i still 
have it here..for examples ;-)

I'm sure it will run again with a new database ...

Maybe the amount of data it was transferring was killing Beer .. 
not sure.

because its a nice competitor for altme..(its code is open and adjustable 
;-)

All it needs is to work!

Since it uses the LNS syntax, it should be possible to port it to 
LNS.

But LNS at present can't act as client and server whereas some of 
the things I was doing was using exactly that .. acting as both client 
and server.

For peer to peer file transfer.

Can you tell me how to get to the R2 beta world as I am currently 
spending more time in 276 than I do in the alpha ?

there's no activity now on the R2 beta world

But I thought there was (somewhere) for View quirks under 2.7.6

there are preparations going there for 2.7.7. I can get you in.

I'm trying to use Cypher's drop-down style but it seems to conflict 
with list-view widget. I keep getting: "dragger does not exist"

Anyone know a quick fix to drop-down so that it does not conflict?

skin-slider.r used by drop-down seems to redefine "dragger". I tried 
to rename all references but that did not work.

sorry the actual error is:

** Script Error: dragger has no value
** Where: init-code
** Near: make dragger [
    edge: make edge []
    feel: make svvf/drag bind [
        engage: func [face action event] [
      ...

If there is no easy fix can anyone suggest an editable drop-down-like 
widget? not REBGUI...this project is vid

hmm... it might be a bug in my code.

I'll carry this on in LIST-VIEW.

Hello... I have a general question about the relationship between 
REBOL/View and the ever-evolving-and-ubiquitous HTML-browser...

shoot ...

REBOL/View targets the native widget set of the host and tries to 
provide a platform-independent experience, based on a more abstract 
definition of interface.  This seems to be somewhat redundant with 
efforts like Firefox, Opera, etc.  I curious if REBOL/View would 
be better implemented by targeting an Ajax-like browser that already 
lives on the machine... or if there is a compelling reason not to 
do it that way.

I haven't programmed in REBOL/View but I had experience with Tcl's 
"Tk" back in the day

And they seem analogous.

First - REBOL does NOT link to native OS widget set. We have general 
gfx objects (faces in R2, gob! in R3), and their events. View builds 
complete gfx engine upon it. Kind of XUL for Mozilla, before they 
gave up and linked to native widgetset?