World: r3wp

sorry about the comments....but just take it as a basic face. then 
you want to append my-face/pane layout[ txt: area button "blah" [txt/text: 
"something"]]

Where can I put the handler such that when the layout is clicked 
'my-face also receives a notification.  I was hoping I could put 
the feel in the face declaration, but that doesn't do anything.  
 Also, more than one layout is usually getting added to the pane. 
 I just want to the parent face to receive a message whenever one 
of them are clicked without having to add the handler in each of 
the layouts.

Nevermind.  I got detect to work for me by declaring my-pane/feel. 
 I had not been returning the events correctly.  Thanks for pointing 
me in the right direction.

Glad you got it working!

Graham, your 'grahamchat.r" code is just what I've been looking for. 
Thanks.

hehe .... I don't even know what that is any more!

It has the illusive text layout like what we are looking at now in 
Altme; that is, text boxes with different heights. It's so simple 
when you see someone else do it.

oh .. I'm sure i copied it off someone else :)

Where did you find grahamchat.r. Its not in the library.

The difference between random and random/secure:

img: make image! 512x512 
repeat i 512 [
	repeat j 512 [
		either i < 256 [
			if 2 = random 2 [
				img/(as-pair i - 1 j - 1): 255.255.255
			]			
		][
			if 2 = random/secure 2 [
				img/(as-pair i - 1 j - 1): 255.255.255
			]
		]
	]
]


view layout [image img across text "RANDOM" tab tab tab text "RANDOM/SECURE"]

Awesome Rebolek! You always come up with great visualizations.

Thanks Gregg, actually it's not my idea, it's based on this article 
- http://www.boallen.com/random-numbers.html, I was just curious 
if there's some pattern in REBOL 'random too.

randomize: func [
    "Reseed the random number generator."

    /with seed "date, time, and integer values are used directly; others 
    are converted."
][

    random/seed either find [date! time! integer!] type?/word seed [seed] 
    [
        to-integer checksum/secure form any [seed now/precise]
    ]
]

img: make image! 512x512 
repeat i 512 [
	randomize
	wait .001
	repeat j 512 [
		either i < 256 [
			if 2 = random 2 [
				img/(as-pair i - 1 j - 1): 255.255.255
			]			
		][
			if 2 = random/secure 2 [
				img/(as-pair i - 1 j - 1): 255.255.255
			]
		]
	]
]


view layout [image img across text "RANDOM" tab tab tab text "RANDOM/SECURE"]

great!

Nice view, Rebolek!!! :-)

Nice! By the way, here's the fastest optimization I could come up 
with (about 30% faster):

t0: now/precise
img: make image! 512x512
i: 0
loop 512 [
	loop 256 [i: i + 1 if 2 = random 2 [poke img i 255.255.255]]

 loop 256 [i: i + 1 if 2 = random/secure 2 [poke img i 255.255.255]]
]
print difference now/precise t0

amacleod - I don't know where grahamchat.r is either .. but they 
same should be in synapsechat in the contest entries on viewtop

How does one determine how many lines there are of text in an area 
filled with text?

height-of-area / height-of-font ?

but if the text only partially fills the area?

hmm.. can't you do something with setting the caret to a large position 
and read the position that way?

with offset-to-caret

unless it returns the index of the string and not a pair.

I'll try that ... wonder why the area just doesn't track the number 
of lines

can't remember if the way it formats text is native. it probably 
is.

What I am trying to do as in the video i posted on the rebgui channel 
is to open the area just enough to show all the text .. no less, 
and no more.

if you have fixed width or height, you could make a face of that 
fixed with or height with the text in it with the same font as for 
the area. then you can with SIZE-TEXT get the size back of the required 
size of the area. BTN does this.

the face you are using should be of quite large height or width, 
depending on what you want to size the area on. SIZE-TEXT bases the 
size of the text on the visible amount of text in the face, so if 
the face is too small, it will use the face size and not the text 
size.

I fetch the text asynchronously ie. I don't have the text at the 
time I construct the layout .. oh well...

; You could make the text face dynamically each time:


make-textbox: func [width [integer!] text [string!] /local textbox][
	textbox: make-face/size 'text (width * 1x0)
	textbox/text: :text
	textbox/size/y: second size-text textbox
	textbox
]

Does the line-list facet hold it?

open the area just enough to show all the text
 - size-text ?

Amacleod and Graham, my apologies for the two week delay. I don't 
know where I got it either now though it was written by Didec with 
Notes: "Code abstracted from altme offline reader by Graham Chiu 
and used for this chat client". I just saw the Graham part when I 
first saw it so I thought he had written it. Of course the cool thing 
is the scrollable boxes work great.

Nope, can't find where I got it from. : (

Can you post it again. I would like to have a look.

I recently found this on my HD and as I'm not sure I've ever posted 
it somewhere, I'm posting it here. Do what you want with it.
do http://bolek.techno.cz/reb/request-color.r

Also check this small GUI experiment:
do http://bolek.techno.cz/reb/efflist-complete.r


rearange the effects using drag'n'drop, duplicate effect whit green 
"o", remove them with red "x" (that's not good idea, as you cannot 
add removed effects back) and set their values with knobs, check 
box and color-picker.

nice. could it be simplified?

if we could get that color wheel in along with the sliders and a 
storage for colors, that would be nice.

(I'm considering that colorwheel for R3 VID

)

Thanks, it could be simplified, I've added the preset paletes so 
one can get consistent color shades, but it can be easily removed.

what's the license? BSD?

I think it should be much faster under R3. At least I hope ;)

Yes, BSD

I will post this in the internal VID3 group.

but I may change to MIT or even PD. It's been sleeping on my HD for 
1.5 year without any usage :)

are there any known bugs in it?

Just that the precision of picking color in the triangle is limited. 
You can test it if you try to move the picker to one of the edges 
and you will see that the sliders won't go to min/max values. There's 
some rounding involved, missing decimal pair! and of course, to be 
really precise, the color wheel should be at least 256pixels wide. 
But you can alwas finetune using sliders.