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but Image Magick is probably more popular, dunno ..

Thumbnailing is very marketable. With what REBOL has, and could have 
without too much effort, we could target the 5% most used ImageMagick 
functions and create an alternative.

the issue being that image magic does things incredibly fast.  its 
a library with its origins in very high-end visual effects, and is 
used massively by that industry.

but for stuff like web sites... an encaped and purposed-build view 
could be viable, if a few filters added a bit more quality/options 
to their mantle.

and a few other image formats too.  (image magic loads/saves more 
than 100)

Pekr: I would like to have that feature, but workarounds exists. 
If Carl has to spend time on R2, I prefer him working on fixes for 
long standing native bugs instead.

We could certainly use a save/jpg option.  That's gotta be a longstanding 
request by many.

Nick, IIRC, /jpg will make REBOL about 100kB larger, that's why it's 
not there. If you know about smaller JPEG saver, I think it may be 
included.

http://rebol.wik.is/Rebol3/Schemes/Imap4
Updated to version 0.0.2 
Logs into Imap server using cram-md5 if available
Switches to inbox
gets inbox status for unseen messages
Retrieves the first 3 messages

ooop ... wrong channel ...

now that we have ssl in view (woot) can we access gmail's api?

What api ?

Rebolek, like many other options, things like save/jpg may not need 
to be included in the default slim installation of REBOL, but I'm 
sure there are many users who would love to have the option of downloading 
a 100k+ library, function, plugin, etc. to easily enable this functionality. 
 I don't care if I have to download and do some code, that's trivial 
- just having the option available would be phenomenal.

I've seen some email stuff somewhere.. here's the google calendar 
api


http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/1.0/developers_guide_php.html

Here's a Gmail notifier app for Firefox, so it must be doable.

libgmail is a Python binding to gmail

http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/

and php script via imap

http://php.net/manual/en/function.imap-open.php


Works with Gmail's new IMAP function for personal and for Google 
Apps.


$mbox = imap_open ("{imap.gmail.com:993/imap/ssl}INBOX", "[username-:-gmail-:-com]", 
"password")
     or die("can't connect: " . imap_last_error());

That's not an API ...

That's just imap

like, whatever

now that we have ssl in view (woot) can we access gmail's via IMAP?

sure if you modify the r2 imap protocol to use ssl

hmm.. sounds like hooking up to another PHP as proxy

can use a ws socket or whatever, and skip opening port 993 on the 
client as well.

Nick, then you use things like ImageMagick, there's a script to support 
it on rebol.org and I have an improved version somewhere on my HDD,if 
you're interested.

I am actually.  :-)

Does 2.7.7.3.1 not have the /async argument for open?

Nevermind


The /async was removed a while ago. If you want to use async, you'll 
have to use Gabriele and others' async protocols

Rebolek, then we need 12 Megs insteac of 100k :(  ... but I am still 
interested in your improved version :)

insteac -> instead

when using the REQUEST-FILE function anyone know how to prevent rebol 
from adding its own filters?


I'm specifying one, and it adds REBOL, *.*, and images... but its 
a stupid setup since I can't manage JPG or GIF images in REBOL.

request-file/filter "*.jpg"

seems to work fine for me on WinXP, show folders and jpgs only.

yes it works, but if you look at the filter box, you will see that 
rebol adds 2 more filters  :-(

who cares about rebol files in an end-user application  >:-(

I don't remember any tricks to do that Max.

maybe we should make a wish for it in the next R2 release?

I see now what the problem is. Those REBOL types are hardcoded into 
view-request sources. 
But you can patch them away with

	remove find/only req-file/filter-list ["*.r" "*.reb" "*.rip"]

 remove skip find req-file/start-out/3 [fp: rty "Normal" "REBOL" "Text" 
 "Images"] 3

After that, request-file should come up without the REBOL types.

That at least seems to work on windows, I don't know what happens 
on other platforms.

Or just use local-request-file directly.

Yes, http://www.mail-archive.com/[rebol-list-:-rebol-:-com]/msg12381.html 
gives some hints on how to do that, but it doesn't seem to be officially 
documented somewhere.

So if an 'area loses focus, the highlighting disappears.  Is that 
correct?

yes

Is there a way to retain highlighting?

that depends on how you unfocus

In standard VID, it's quite a pain to do anything before the unfocus 
action. You have to manipulate the field and area styles to allow 
an action before that.

I was introducing someone to REBOL, and he made a button that modifies 
the highlighted text.   It works fine with the intialized text, but 
if you type more in the 'area and then press the button, the highlight 
variables are set to none, and I can't figure out why there is a 
difference

can you show the code? there are som parts of highlighting that can 
be tricky to use.

return-highlight: func [fac /a b la lb ans] [
	la: length? a: system/view/highlight-start
	lb: length? b: system/view/highlight-end
	either (la > lb)	[
		ans: replace a b ""				
	] [
		ans: replace b a ""
	]	
	return ans
]
view layout [
	size 600x460
	across
	choice "<w pos>" "N" "ADJ" "V" "PRO" "PREP" [
		t: return-highlight textfield
		before: rejoin [{<w pos="} value {">}]
		after: {</w>}
		textfield/text: rejoin [ before t after ]
		show textfield
	]
	
	below
	textfield: area 575x360 "try me out"
	btn "display selected text" [ 
		alert return-highlight textfield
	]
]

ignore the 'choice.  I should have taken that out

if you highlight some of the text, and press the button, the alert 
works, but if you type in the 'area and press the button, it doesn't

I think part of the problem is that the index is not moving for the 
highlight, when you insert text into the string, so you would have 
to manually move the index for highlight start/end.