World: r3wp

Reb Rings Mini (Mouse Gesture Version) has been released get it at 
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebrings-mini-mgv.r-- there are many 
changes PLEASE read the instructions in header.

CureCode : a web-based bugtracking tool released (beta). See !CureCode 
channel for more info.

UTF-8 Validator


check and validate UTF-8 files, convert from USC-2 to UTF-8, convert 
special characters to HTML-entities and vice versa (can ignore selected 
tags).


available from http://bolek.techno.cz/UTF8-Validator/as REBOL script 
and Windows executable.

RebTower (a Magic the Gathering style - strategy card game) has been 
released.  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-0.0.6.zipThis is 
the fully playable version (minus help :P )

RebTower 0.0.7 has been released.
- All art is now completed.

- Card Builder is included with this release so you can make/modify 
your own cards.

- Added turn pause mode so you can get a better look at the cards 
the computer plays.
Get it at: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-0.0.7.zip(657kb)

RebTower 0.0.8 - bugfix for turn-pause on winning.

http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-0.0.8.zip(0.0.7 removed from 
server).

Any "Get out of jail free" cards?

RebTower 0.1.0

 - added spacebar toggle to turn mode after accidentally turning it 
 off on 0.0.9 ;-)


From now on the latest versions will always be found below (its relatively 
stable now).
(Full version)  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.zip

(Update Only version)  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.r(for 
update from versions 0.0.7 and higher)

Wow.  really awesome.  I love the smooth scaling.  however, there's 
no text on linux.  Another special font?

for linux change the fonts inside builder.r and rebtower.r from verdana 
and tahoma to something similar :)

RebTower 0.1.3 released.
Changes:
# Fixed transparency issues with played cards
# Stacks now zoomable

# All new PLAYBACK MODE. (Press p to check out all the stages of 
a completed round)
Full version: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.zip(661kb)

Update version (from 0.0.7 upwards): http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.r
(34kb)

RebTower 0.1.5 - small fix to stop player/ai loops using 100% cpu 
- thanks doc ;)
Full version: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.zip(661kb)

Update version (from 0.0.7 upwards): http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.r
(34kb)

DRAW-based visual Captcha Library : http://softinnov.org/rebol/captcha.shtml

I'm pleased to announce the REBOL user group now has a name.

World meet   user.r


Details in IRUA and IRUA Chat.  Those forums will be retired and 
renamed to  user.r  shortly.

14th August 2007 is the day of release of R3. btiffin is 44 that 
day, so it nice fits. Congratulations!

Draw a surface with 3-D Perspective and allow roation - 
http://peoplecards.ca/rebol/philb/utils/3D-surface.r
& in the Rebol Library

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=surface.r

New version (2.0.0) of Rebol/Flash dialect (RSWF) is available here: 
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/

- this version uses completly new actions parser (thanks to Ladislav 
for his help)

String based Rebol Code colorizer --> http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/code-colorizer.r
using it, Rebol source can look like:
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/code-colorizer.html
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf-main-rules.html
or http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf-main-rules-full-code.html


There is still a lot of things to improve, but it's already quite 
useful.

(at least it does not  suffer with recursion parse limits which I 
reached with good old Carl's %color-code.r script)

Nice, Oldes!

Rebsync - http://www.easybraine.com/index.cfm?content_id=40if anyone 
knows french, perhaps they could explain what it does!

It syncs directories, and apparently also MySQL and SQLite databases 
- or it needs them for functioning

It detects conflicts. But it only seems to work on Windows

Rebol/Flash dialect (RSWF) version 2.5.0 is available!
compressed: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf_latest.r(89kB)

uncompressed: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf_2.5.0.r(331kB) 

as colorized HTML: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf_2.5.0.html
 (885kB) 

What's new:

- New swf-parser included which replaces old exam-swf function (useful 
for importing foreign SWF files)

- Added implementation of Class definitions for SWF versions 6 and 
higher (I have to create some examples)

- Added new 'trace function into actions (which can be use to compile 
swf files with or without trace calls easily)

- 'require and 'include now accepts block of files or urls (I should 
modify my rswf code colorizer to show included files as well)


Here is also new example how to include first of GUI elements: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/example/swf8-cliphandler

In the future I would like to create something like mini Layout dialect 
which will be used for better positioning of the new GUIs I'm working 
on.

GIF parser. At this moment it just prints info and or inserts comment.

do http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/gif_latest.r

        gif/parse http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/bitmaps/chinese.gif

        write/binary %test.gif gif/add-comment http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/bitmaps/chinese.gif
        "test" 
        gif/parse %test.gif

The script is using %stream-io.r script which I use more and more 
for binary manipulations.

To test it with animatedGif you may try:  gif/parse http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Headloss.gif

And if someone would like to know, what is inside AVI files (without 
need to use xMB of dlls or binary utils)... here is another experimental 
script:  http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/avi_latest.r

What does it do?

coffee ?

Not much... just goes thru avi file and prints it's structure. I 
just wanted to know how looks the AVI inside. But if you add part 
for decoding the video chunks, you can for example extract images. 
Or you can easily extract all audio chunks.

String based Rebol's PHP Code Colorizer: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/php-colorizer.r

Here is test ouput of some colorized PHP code: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/test/test-php.html

<-QM-> Version 0.2.1 -- new controllers; file upload; reorganised 
for better console-running mode; (hopefully) better namespace handling; 
user and session handling ready

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/

Tested on Apache.  Tested briefly on Cheyenne.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Carl Sassenrath of REBOL Technologies would 
like to announce that all R3 development has been cancelled and that 
you should all go home and play with Perl instead. Or Python.

Or Ruby

Or Erlang

Or....

Wait a minute. Let me rephrase that:



REBOL3.0 Alpha 1 for Windows is out

You can download it here:


http://www.rebol.net/builds/rebol3/alpha/rebol29904031.zip


Carl has made a blog entry about it here:


http://www.rebol.com/article/0347.html


  Please note that this is alpha software and represents a work in 
  progress! Be nice to the developers. There's no support for you yet, 
  but it will come later. Now play with it and be good.

any chance for a linux alpha?

Not at this time. The Windows version runs well in Wine, though.

From Announce
TimW: any chance for a linux alpha?

Anton: Not at this time. The Windows version runs well in Wine, though.


I may have the version wrong...not at home.  You need Wine 9.14? 
 or greater - released from winehq a few months ago or  REBOL wait 
 will not function properly, pretty much hosing VID.  It was a timer 
call bug in Wine that's been fixed.  It was not an R3 problem, but 
Wine.

Sorry, supposed to be in Ann-Reply.  My bad.

The REBOL 3 public alpha announcement has made PLNews (a programming 
language news wire service).
http://plnews.org/

Windows services support library for REBOL 1.0.0 released. Download 
: http://softinnov.org/rebol/nt-services.shtml

Looks excellent, Doc. (Nice small DLL you have there.)

Very cool Doc!

6502 assembler v. 1.0.0: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/language/asm6502.r

Released under GPL license!

Very cool!  Talk about a flashback...