World: r3wp

it can be fixed by pressing another tab, then going back to Chat 
tab. But each first display of Chat tab seems to be incorrectly drawn 
to the screen ...

that's what the Refresh button is for

and that's what my message above also says

the problem with the chat widget is when I try to fill it in the 
do block of the display

>> display "" [ f: chat data [] do [ f/append-message "system" none 
"test" none 1-Jan-2007 ]] do-events
** Script Error: Cannot use add on none! value
** Where: append-message
** Near: text: form any [row rows: rows + 1]
color:
>>

Uploaded fix to SVN.

Working now :)

I've got a widget named 'outcome defined as 


outcome: make text [
	size: 0x5
]

now this displays incorrectly 


 display "" [ label "HAQ" outcome "HAQ" return text "Test" ] do-events

there is a large vertical gap ( twice normal ? ) between the two 
visible widgets

Ashley, would you provide a working example of using the function 
keys ?  I'm having difficulty getting it working.

I haven't found the on-fkey handler yet, but I am hoping that function 
keys are not defined at the face level.  I use function keys at the 
application level ... and modify their behaviour depending on which 
tab has focus.

do %rebgui.r
ctx-rebgui/on-fkey/f3: make function! [face] [print "Hi"]
...
display ...
...
do-events

The handlers are global, the face argument is the face of the display 
which was active when the key was pressed (see %display.r for the 
processing logic).

I tried this with no luck.

What REBOL version?

>> rebol/version
== 1.3.2.3.1

>> do %rebgui.r
Script: "Untitled" (none)

>> ctx-rebgui/on-fkey/f3: make function! [face] [print "Hi"] display 
"" [ text "hello" ] do-events

nothing happens when I have focus on the window and press f3

Works here, and I'm running the same View version.

ctx-rebgui/build?

hand built :(

A merge of my changes with your latest

checking out a new version now

BTW, would it be okay to add caret support to spinner so that we 
can change a single character?

At present we have to highlight, erase and then type over

Function keys working now :)

Must have screwed up the merge I did

You mean add the 'caret attribute to spinner?

if that is what it takes

OK. In your outcome example change the size to 1x5 and add color: 
red to see what is happening.

text (derived from label) is trying to protect you from:


 text 10 "A really long bit of text that should wrap even though I 
 didn't specify 10x-1"


but the problem is that if you specify 10x5 then it should honor 
that regardless of whether the text fits or not. The solution, I 
think, is to change the default size from -1x5 to -1x-1 but ensure 
that size/y is always a min of sizes/line.

I get a red line, which is deeper than specified

I want to hide the widget so, I really want to set it to 0x0

what about:

	text "blah" false

Hmm.  That works

Can I put that in the widget definition?

show?: false

I'm using these hidden widgets to controll the low, high range of 
acceptable values in a widget, and to provide them with database 
field names

ie.form validation and not field validation

Seems an obscure way of doing it ...

It allows a user to define a template like this:


label "Tender joint count? (0-28)" outcome "tender28" ifield  low-range 
"0" hi-range "28" return

so, outcome refers to the database field, and the user has integer 
field for the data, with a low range of  0, and a high range of 28

I guess I could use a custom widget and use options instead

or a spinner?

takes too many clicks

you have to highlight a spinner and type over it

extra work

then add spinner to hilight-on-focus and they can just type overtype 
the value directly.

I think I created this dialect pre-spinner days :)