World: r3wp

BTW, in chat.r, in a multi line text message, the blue divider cuts 
across the first line of text

It fixes when you risize

resize

If there is a lot of text, it won't display all the text in a message

It preserves the formatting of the original size and needs to reflow 
the text

Got it. I've been thinking that the following accessors would probably 
cover most usage cases:

	add-message
	add-message/top
	delete-message
	delete-message/top
	set-user-color
	set-message-color
	redraw

edit-message ??

sometimes one has to do these things !!

Do you mean change-message (i.e. replace message 24 of 50 with the 
following ...)

yes

So a 'set-message-text accessor?

yes

http://www.compkarori.com/reb/chatlo.png

this is my rebgui interface to the rebelBB.cgi script

if you resize, and the messages don't fill the screen, the offset 
needs to be reset to 0

for the main pane .. otherwise, the messages start mid screen.

vertically

Does the data structure meet your needs? Note that, like AltME, if 
the date is today then the time component is shown instead. You can 
insert abbreviated date/time's with:

	to date! reform [now/date now/time]

I think it's nice to have an addition column for a message id.

Otherwise , if you try and refer to a particular message .. you can't.. 
except by pointing to a datestamp which may be different depending 
upon which time zone you're in.

Preceeding the User column?

Yes.

I think with Altme, each message is followed by a font block etc.

so, each colum of data is then followed by a block that specifies 
the font, background etc.

Which might be a bit of overkill ...

In my chat client, I use Allen's parser to create active links for 
http/s ftp etc.

Allen and Gabriele's

Is it safe to assume that messages will always be in ascending age 
order? i.e. Do we need to cater for message insertion at top? Or 
message numbers that are in descending order? I want to avoid having 
sortable columns. Simple but functional is good.

Allen and Gabriele's
 ... rebol.org link?

http://www.compkarori.com/reb/download-manager.r

Click on the Synapse EMR client button, and then GSView

And you'll see this link ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/ghostgum/gsv48w64.exe
appear .. you can right click on it to copy to the clipboard

Remember we are in a public group. You may want to take this private?

No, that's free software

Just chceking.

I announced that on rebolweek in May 2006 :)

I basically wrapped a gui around other peoples' code :)

commented out are links to lib:// ( rebol.org scripts ) and # ( to 
rambo ) as they were not needed for this script.

I'll look at incorporating this.

great

I think there's no need to sort messages

unncessary complexity

spellchecker is a must though :(

Although not ideal, you can always force a spellcheck with:

	...
	button "Submit" [
		request-spellcheck my-area
		...
	]

But check-as-you-go is where it needs to be.

yep

and in a chat screen, you don't normally need to scroll the text 
in the reply area ..

which might make it easier to mark the text that is thought to be 
incorrect.

How do you make a display stay on top without making it modal ?

ie. on top of the parent window

Odd, just noticed that the latest View beta is registering fkeys 
as 'console, 'icmp, 'oracle, etc. Wierd. I vagually recollect someone 
else mentioning this before in another group though.