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[!RebGUI] A lightweight alternative to VID
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Graham 16-Aug-2010 [8750] | ok, include table into the tabbed block and use the set-focus from the svn works so far |
RickH 21-Aug-2010 [8751] | Hi, Am just moving over here from TCL-land and would like to try RebGUI. However, there seems to be two versions: one downloadable from the Dobeash site (rel #117) and on resident in SVN (#218). Which is the one with which to go; and if the version on SVN, what is the method to down load an use? Any assistance would be appreciated. Rick |
Graham 21-Aug-2010 [8752x2] | Don't use 118 .. the only one working is 117 |
The SVN version is incomplete and was a rewrite which was not finished | |
RickH 21-Aug-2010 [8754] | thanks, again. |
Gregg 21-Aug-2010 [8755x2] | And of course, VID is still valid as well. |
VID is the native REBOL GUI dialect. If you're just getting started, and doing basic UIs, it's worth a look. | |
Graham 22-Aug-2010 [8757x2] | I've posted my lookup-field as per my video here http://rebol.wik.is/RebGUI/Lookup-field It uses a lot of code from the edit-list which I don't quite grok! So, there's a bug which requires you to initialize the field with a backspace first. |
So, I can feed this widget 18,000 entries which I don't think you can with the edit-list. | |
MaxV 26-Aug-2010 [8759] | Hello everybody, I have a problem with Linux: DRAW choose a font that give problem displaying: example: ['text "Hello word!"] view layout [ box 100x100 effect [draw example ]] on linux it gives a blank window. I added: example: ['text "Hello word!"] if (pick system/version 4) = 4 [ fnt1: make face/font [ name: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf" size: 12 ] os: "linux" ] if os = "linux" [ insert example reduce ['font fnt1] ] view layout [ box 100x100 effect [draw example ]] This solution is good, but using REBGUI it doesn't work anymore. What can I do? |
Ladislav 26-Aug-2010 [8760x3] | Actually, this group is inappropriate, you should use View, or Linux |
(I suppose that you are mistaking VID and RebGUI) | |
aha, sorry, I did not find out you actually used RebGUI, sorry | |
Ashley 26-Aug-2010 [8763] | Max, fonts should work the same between View, VID and RebGUI. Please provide a small snippet of RebGUI code that demonstrates the problem. |
MaxV 27-Aug-2010 [8764x4] | Ok |
do %rebgui.r example: ['text "Hello word!"] display "Example" [ aaa_stats: box 50x50 effect [ draw example ] ] do-events | |
It doesn't display anything. | |
Do you know a solution? | |
Graham 27-Aug-2010 [8768x3] | On windows you get a nearly invisible "hello world" |
but your problem is linux isn't it? | |
example: [pen black text "Hello word!"] display "Example" [ aaa_stats: box 50x50 effect [ draw example ] ] do-events | |
Anton 27-Aug-2010 [8771] | No, he solved the problem with Linux by providing an absolute filepath to the font. The problem is trying to use VID's LAYOUT (and maybe also VID's VIEW) after initialising RebGUI. If I remember correctly, RebGUI unsets 'LAYOUT, or redefines it for its own use. So it won't work anymore as you expect with VID. |
MaxV 27-Aug-2010 [8772] | Exactly, any suggestion? |
Anton 27-Aug-2010 [8773x2] | Well, it's not going to be easy to mix them. Ashley made the decision early in RebGUI development to specifically unset (the majority of?) the built-in VID functions. I think primarily to reclaim memory use, but maybe also to avoid mixing code. (I didn't really like this decision, myself.) |
You could probably modify the RebGUI sources so it doesn't do that, or ~maybe~ redefine the VID functions yourself (I think more challenging). Every time there is a RebGUI update, you'd have to remodify the RebGUI sources, so I wouldn't be inclined to do that myself. It depends how badly you want them to coexist. | |
NickA 27-Aug-2010 [8775x3] | You can use VID styles with the 'style word: |
rebol [] do %rg example: "Hello world!" display "Example" [ style 20x20 data [ box blue example ] ] do-events | |
rebol [] do %rebgui.r example: [pen black text "Hello word!"] display "Example" [ style 20x20 data [ box blue effect [draw example] ] ] do-events | |
Ashley 27-Aug-2010 [8778] | RebGUI (b117 and later) does *not* redefine layout. It does however redefine alert, confirm and many of the request-* functions. The fact that starting a fresh console session and entering: view layout [box black 100x100 effect [draw [pen white text "Hello"]]] no longer works on the linux and Mac ports of REBOL is I believe a REBOL/VIew bug (despite a workaround that may work for VID but not RebGUI). |
Graham 27-Aug-2010 [8779x2] | It's a bug in that the font directories are unknown in linux |
so it should work in rebgui as well as the draw dialect is unchanged in rebgui | |
Anton 28-Aug-2010 [8781] | Oops, sorry Ashley, I was wrong about RebGUI unsetting LAYOUT. (It's been a long time since I tried RebGUI.) MaxV, tell us the rebol version you are using (system/version) and the RebGUI version. Show us the full code which does not work with RebGUI. I noticed your second example (using RebGUI) did not include the code which sets the font path. Just to be sure, can you confirm you tried it together? |
shadwolf 28-Aug-2010 [8782] | nickA didn't provided a font information in his draw block plus he didn't gived a different color... plus R2 VID sux with fonts and specially under linux. |
MaxV 30-Aug-2010 [8783x3] | I tried Nick code, but I obtain ** Script Error: style has no value |
All my code is: Rebol [] do %rebgui.r fnt1: make face/font [ name: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf" size: 12 ] example: ['text "Hello word!"] insert example ( reduce ['font fnt1 ]) display "Example" [ aaa_stats: box 50x50 effect [ draw example ] ] do-events | |
REBOL/View 2.7.7.4.3 5-Jan-2010 Linux ubuntu 2.6.32-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 08:10:02 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux | |
NickA 4-Sep-2010 [8786] | I haven't tried loading fonts in draw on Linux, but the rest of this works (the color is changed by the draw command "pen red"): Rebol [] do %rebgui.r font1: make face/font [ ; name: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf" size: 11 style: [italic bold] ] example: compose [ font (font1) pen red text "Hello World!" ] display "Example" [ style 20x20 data [ box snow 100x100 effect [ draw example ] ] ] do-events |
MaxV 6-Sep-2010 [8787] | ** Script Error: style has no value ** Where: layout ** Near: style 20x20 data [ box snow 100x100 effect [ draw example ] ] |
NickA 7-Sep-2010 [8788] | MaxV, this works perfectly for me on Ubuntu 10.04.1, using your rebol.deb installer - I ran Ubuntu directly from the CD created using the most recent Ubuntu download, installed REBOL using your Ubuntu package, and ran this script. Perhaps your version of RebGUI is different than mine? This version loads rebgui.r from an http:// link: rebol [] do http://re-bol.com/rebgui.r font1: make face/font [ name: "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf" size: 11 style: [italic bold] ] example: compose [ font (font1) pen red text "Hello World!" ] display "Example" [ style 20x20 data [ box snow 100x100 effect [ draw example ] ] ] do-events quit |
MaxV 10-Sep-2010 [8789x3] | YES! It's the Rebgui version that is different. |
I use Version 218 | |
You use version 117 | |
NickA 10-Sep-2010 [8792] | 117 is the latest stable version |
MaxV 13-Sep-2010 [8793] | Well, 117 has some bugs that 218 hasn't. For example colored buttons turn grey after passing over them. |
Graham 13-Sep-2010 [8794] | and don't change back? |
MaxV 14-Sep-2010 [8795] | NO! :-( |
Maxim 14-Sep-2010 [8796x2] | note that some view faces support the face/colorS which is a block with two colors. if you only set the face/color, when ever a feel looks up the colors block, it will effectively overwrite the color... try it for your specific case (I don't use rebgui, so I can't test) |
same for face/texts, face/fonts, face/images | |
Ashley 14-Sep-2010 [8798] | That's all VID-specific, NA for RebGUI. |
Graham 14-Sep-2010 [8799] | Ashley, given that the last code changes to RebGUi were a year ago .. waiting for R3GUI to appear, do you still feel that there is no point in improving/fixing RebGUI? |
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