World: r3wp

The website for ReBorCon 2011 is now online:

http://reborcon.esperconsultancy.nl

The programme will be fleshed out a bit more

I've upgraded http://tryrebol.esperconsultancy.nlto Alpha 111

This is experimental because the 4.2 Ubuntu variant is not available 
and the 4.3 Fedora build has bombed out in the past. However, that 
and even the new 4.4 GLibC 2.11 variant seem to run on Syllable Server, 
which only has GLibC 2.7

This is another success for R3's attempted isolation from the C library

http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Common_Parse_Patterns

Carl's new page about common parse patterns.

rebol.wik.is site is now here ... http://www.compkarori.co.nz:8000/

Announcing "r3-zmq", a REBOL 3 extension providing a low-level binding 
to the ØMQ library:
https://github.com/earl/r3-zmq


That's right, another zmq binding! This one provides a (mostly complete) 
1:1 mapping of the zmq API (v2.0.10) to R3 commands. Most of the 
zmq API is implemented, the functions still missing are: zmq_setsockopt, 
zmq_getsockopt, zmq_poll.


Examples and bundled distributions are forthcoming in the near future. 
But building it against ZeroMQ 2.0.10 and utilising the official 
zmq API documentation [1], you should be able to follow the ZeroMQ 
Guide [2] quite nicely.

[1] http://api.zeromq.org/2-0-10:_start
[2] http://zguide.zeromq.org/

A simple example illustrating client/server-style interaction is 
now included with r3-zmq:
https://github.com/earl/r3-zmq/blob/78a89d/examples/hwserver.r3
https://github.com/earl/r3-zmq/blob/78a89d/examples/hwclient.r3

Finally, here's a r3-zmq preview package, containing pre-built binaries 
of the extension as well as the 0MQ library for both, _Linux and 
Win32_:
http://bolka.at/2011/rebol3/zmq-20110303-g6446f9.tar.gz


With this package you can conveniently run the examples and play 
around without having to compile or install anything. The included 
README.dist.mkd should get you started with running the examples.

If anyone is interested, I have started work on a REBOL Redis API 
at http://code.google.com/p/disreb/. Redis is a nice no-SQL database 
(see http://redis.io) that I'm using at work to keep various processes 
written in several different languages across multiple computers 
in sync. There didn't seem to be a Redis API for REBOL, so I thought 
I would write one. Although it's still early days and mostly implemented 
for my needs at the moment, someone else might find it useful.

Feedback, suggestions most appreciated! Thanks!

R2 or R3?

Pekr... from the link above: "...Currently developing with REBOL 
v2, may be compatible with REBOL v3..."

http://code.google.com/p/disreb/source/browse/disreb.r

not R3 compatible

Josh, if you're interested, I've got somehow working version for 
R3

New RMA release of R3GUI is available on:


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui-src.zip- this 
is the full source version + docs


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui.r3.zip- this 
is the 'classic' one file release

or just simply type LOAD-GUI in the RMA version of R3.exe


Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any 
feedback is appreciated.


NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. 
You can get it from: http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/rma-r3-build.zip

Release notes:

-updated documentation (though still incomplete)
-complete new set of examples
-new hint based autosizing

-many internal and style related fixes and improvements, for details 
see: http://rm-asset.com/code/level1/r3-gui/#toc1

An evaluation of the compatibility of this new release of R3GUI with 
the standard r3-a111 release (recompiled), and an adaptation of the 
Carl's demo.r to this r3-gui.r3. Result : very good. It's time to 
develop r3 view applications !
http://www.colineau.fr/rebol/r3-gui.html

Rock, paper, scissors that learn from your moves. Requires R3GUI 
(but don't expect any graphics ;)
htto://box.lebeda.ws/~rebolek/rebol/ropas.r3

r3-zmq now also provides bindings for zmq_setsockopt/zmq_getsockopt 
and zmq-poll. The R3 extension thereby _fully_ implements the ØMQ 
library API (as of ØMQ 2.0.10).

The current sources can be found at:
https://github.com/earl/r3-zmq


With zmq_setsockopt implemented, PUB/SUB sockets now work just fine, 
as illustrated by two examples:
https://github.com/earl/r3-zmq/blob/d083b3/examples/wuserver.r3
https://github.com/earl/r3-zmq/blob/d083b3/examples/wuclient.r3


Thanks to Oldes for reporting & helping fix an issue in the build 
system on Win32.


For your convenience, a preview package bundling pre-built binaries 
of the extension and libzmq (2.0.10) for Linux and Win32 can be obtained 
at:
http://bolka.at/2011/rebol3/r3-zmq-20110307-gd083b3.tar.gz

As an appetiser, here's a status report of the wuserver.r3 example 
running on a modest Core 2 Duo 2.6GHz, pushing out messages as fast 
as it can via a TCP endpoint to one wuclient.r3 running on the same 
machine:


1000000 messages sent in 0:00:05.003551 - 199858.060805216 msgs/sec


Yes, that is ~200'000 messages per second. (Or 5 microseconds of 
processing latency per message in the server.)

Andreas, that's amazing. Is that test on Linux or Windows?

(-> Ann-Reply)

Upgraded R2 on http://tryrebol.esperconsultancy.nlto 2.7.8

New update of RMA version of R3 host-kit is available at http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/index.html

This release contains:

-TO-IMAGE fixes
-TEXT rendering related improvements and code cleanup


NOTE: This version is also needed to be able run the latest R3GUI 
from RMA.

New RMA release of R3GUI version 2124 is available on:


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui-src.zip- this 
is the full source version + docs


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui.r3.zip- this 
is the 'classic' one file release

or just simply type LOAD-GUI in the RMA version of R3.exe


Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any 
feedback is appreciated.


NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. 
You can get it from: http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/rma-r3-build.zip

Release notes:

-new set of examples
-many internal and style related fixes and improvements


for more details see r3-gui-changes.txt in the zip archive (the changelog 
will be updated on the RMA webpages soon as well)

r3-gui demo updated. Present version : 0.5.0. New validated tests 
: drawing, clock, scroller, windows, text-list (simple system browser)

Sorry, here is the link :  http://www.colineau.fr/rebol/r3-gui.html

parse-expression.r, a mathematical expression dialect parser that 
translates mathematiclal expressions into rebol code that can be 
evaluated, is available on rebol.org:  http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=parse-expression.r

Please check the documentation: http://www.rebol.org/documentation.r?script=parse-expression.r

New update of RMA version of R3 host-kit is available at http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/index.html

This release contains:

-enhanced GUI-METRIC function


NOTE: This version is also needed to be able run the latest R3GUI 
from RMA.

New RMA release of R3GUI version 2182 is available on:


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui-src.zip- this 
is the full source version + docs


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui.r3.zip- this 
is the 'classic' one file release

or just simply type LOAD-GUI in the RMA version of R3.exe


Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any 
feedback is appreciated.


NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. 
You can get it from: http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/rma-r3-build.zip

Release notes:

-generic box-model presets
-better text sizing
-improved keyboard navigation
-correct handlind of minimal window size
-cleaned up style tags
-many internal and style related fixes and improvements


for more details see r3-gui-changes.txt in the zip archive (the changelog 
will be updated on the RMA webpages soon as well)

We are trying to organize a Rebol (Red ?! ;)) User Group in France 
this Spring (or Summer) 2011 :

http://www.rebol-france.org/sondage-rug-spring-2011

This is a poll (in french) for those who are interesting to come.

I made a website for my 0MQ bindings with preliminary documentation:

http://rebol.esperconsultancy.nl/extensions/0MQ

Nice Kaj!

Your name in lights......

If you don't appear in this collage of REBOL users, drop Massimiliano 
an email with a photo, and he'll add you:

    http://www.rebol.org/view-script-images.r?script-name=rebolusers.r
    http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=rebolusers.r

Right!

:-)

I've added the Hello World request/reply examples to the 0MQ bindings 
site:

http://rebol.esperconsultancy.nl/extensions/0MQ

REBOL 3, REBOL 2 and Red/System

Hello,

I would loke to announce the availability of a new library %plotter.r. 
This library intends to transform any vid face supporting the draw 
effect into a powerfull plotter of mathematical expressions. THis 
library makes use of %parse-expression.r


You can test this new library through a demo I am currenly developping. 
The easiest is to connect with View/Desktop to http://rebol.x10.mx/scripts/plotterdemo.r
. This demo is not yet fully complete, but demonstrate how easy the 
library is to use.

Enjoy

BTW: this library also uses log4reb.r...

This does not work with Linux currently ('cause of the font issue)

New update of RMA version of R3 host-kit is available at http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/index.html

This release contains:


-Windows: reworked keyboard events handling (key-up events support, 
ctrl+tab detection, base for ALT+key handling, etc.)
-text clipping bugfix


NOTE: This version is also needed to be able run the latest R3GUI 
from RMA.

New RMA release of R3GUI version 2338 is available on:


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui-src.zip- this 
is the full source version + docs


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui.r3.zip- this 
is the 'classic' one file release

or just simply type LOAD-GUI in the RMA version of R3.exe


Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any 
feedback is appreciated.


NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. 
You can get it from: http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/rma-r3-build.zip

Release notes:

-new dividers subsystem

-support of application 'shortcut' and 'access' keys (see panels-15.r3 
for details)
-more stable resizing
-improved keyboard handling in some styles
-many internal and style related fixes and improvements


for more details see r3-gui-changes.txt in the zip archive (the changelog 
will be updated on the RMA webpages soon as well)

New RMA release of R3GUI version 2367 is available on:


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui-src.zip- this 
is the full source version + docs


http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui.r3.zip- this 
is the 'classic' one file release

or just simply type LOAD-GUI in the RMA version of R3.exe


Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any 
feedback is appreciated.


NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. 
You can get it from: http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/rma-r3-build.zip

Release notes:


this is just minor update(as previous one has been published only 
2 days ago) so we(RMA) get back up-to-sync with 'Friday release' 
frequency ;-)


for more details see r3-gui-changes.txt in the zip archive (the changelog 
will be updated on the RMA webpages soon as well)

For people who likes colors......... here is updated Scintilla / 
Scite (text editor) source with rewriten and enabled REBOL lexer 
for colorized code in scintilla powered text editors.

https://github.com/Oldes/Scite/commit/cf5ef6b736553f5e6f1e8a801e91e0e3ff4b3373

have you announced this anywhere so that the changes can be incorporated 
into Scintilla/Scite by the project devs?