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indonesian?

yes :-)

another minor bug in rebgui, I just mentioned it here so it's not 
lost:
REBOL []

do %rebgui.r
counter: 0
muline: copy ""
display "button color not reset" [	
	btn "start timer" [
		if tgl/text = "wait" [wait 0]
		print "hi"
	]
	tgl: toggle data ["wait" "no-wait"]
]
do-events

when a button does some activities, in this case 'wait', the button's 
color changed to the pushed state, but never gets back to it's original 
color.

it's b218

calling WAIT inside a vid face action is not really supported by 
REBOL. In practice, there are cases where you may need to do this, 
but it is always a bit tricky.

Thanks for the information Gabriele, I've been using this inside 
vid face action to wait for a data from serial port. Until now I 
have not encountered any issue. But maybe I'm just lucky.

What I needed is actually only the timer action of a face to process 
an internal command queue, and while doing this I read some data 
from serial port. If rebol had a timer object, I don't need the face 
anymore. But afaik there is no timer in rebol, since it does not 
support multithreading yet, with exception of the face timer.

Timers are not really related to multithreading. If you only need 
a timer, you can just use WAIT with a time! or integer! value. Also, 
one way to work around problems that may happen when using WAIT inside 
a face action is to disable the event port, then WAIT, then enable 
it again. Eg, in your above code, replace the WAIT 0 with:

    saved: system/ports/wait-list
    system/ports/wait-list: []
    wait 0
    system/ports/wait-list: saved


It may be better though to add the serial port to the wait list and 
handle things differently - I can't say without knowing more about 
your program.

That solved this issue, thanks for the hint.

On the timer topic, I needed a recurring event that fires every second, 
where I can do some processing, without blocking the main thread 
while waiting until the next event. In .Net I can achieve that using 
a timer object.

Ashley, any suggestions on how to detect inactivity so that I can 
log a user out of the application?

Do I have to track every event?

How about checking stats/evals periodically (accounting for the calls 
that this in itself generates)?

I'll give that a go ...

is there a simple/proper way to resize a rebgui window?

build#218:

display "test" [
	box red #HW
	return
	button #Y "resize" [
		var: face/parent-face
		var/size: 300x300
		show var
	]
]

thanks

I need to copy the entire state of a rebgui table for an undo system. 
Any idea how to do that? Deep copying the face object is far too 
slow, so I guess I need to access particuar values in the table that 
will then update the table properly when calling REDRAW.

table/data
table/widths
table/aligns

Thanks

build#218:
do %rebgui.r
display "test scroll panel" [

 mytable: table options ["id" left .2 "name" right .8  ] data [1 "A" 
 2 "B" 3 "C"] [alert "see me?"]
]
do-events

I tried to fix the bug that selecting the third row brings up an 
empty alert window (no text). I've played with face-iterator and 
table widget source code, but don't know where to look further. If 
anyone can give a hint I would really appreciate it.

I found the bug, it's in the rebgui-widgets.r -> face-iterator

    font: either 'left = aligns/:i [default-font] [make default-font 
    [align: aligns/:i]]
should be replaced with

    font: either 'left = aligns/:i [make default-font []] [make default-font 
    [align: aligns/:i]]

otherwise, selecting a line will change default-font/color to white, 
thus any widgets using default-font shown thereafter will appear 
blank

Ashley, if you give me access, I would be more than glad to submit 
the changes back to the repository (including some other widgets 
that I might have fixed along the way)

Awi ... I started that repository.  Join up and I'll see if I can 
grant you write access.

Ok, I already following the project in codeplex

Ok, made you a developer .. hope that works

Awi ... do you now have write access to the repo?

Sorry Graham, I was in vacation recently. Yes, now I have write access 
to the repo. I will need to clean up a bit before posting my changes 
though.

GrahamC "Are the RebGUI widgets being released?" - No, as our internal 
RebGUI is a fork long time ago and I think it developed quite far 
away from the official version of RebGUI. So, not sure if it's useful 
for others.

When I add rows to a TABLE using the following code works well:
append my-table/data a-block
my-table/redraw


But when I make a block of data then set my-table/data to it, it 
doesn't work (nothing appears in my-table)
b: []
append b a-block
my-table/data: b
my-table/redraw

and the using my-table/add-row is also doesn't work.
Am I doing something wrong?

This shows the problem more clear:

gui-table/add-row ["a" "b" "c"]
gui-table/redraw ;works ok

b: copy gui-table/data

clear gui-table/data
gui-table/redraw ;clears the table

gui-table/data: copy b
gui-table/redraw ;shows nothing


There is something related directly to the DATA block inside TABLE 
functions I think.

you have to do this:

insert clear head gui-table/data a-block
gui-table/redraw

as there is a reference to the data block elsewhere

Where to download the latest RebGUI source codes? Sorry I found it 
a few days ago but cannot find now.

codeplex

Got it, thanks.

I downloaded the source codes for RebGUI but it looks it is not the 
latest version.

Many of the functions & styles are totally different in rebgui-92396.zip 
(source from codeplex) and in B117 (from dobeash website).
Is there any more recent version somewhere?

b117 is the latest stable release. The b2xx series is a rewrite that 
is 95% complete.

Thank you. New UI looks very nice. It would be nice if table widget 
supports mouse wheel scrolling.

This line give error when you select an item in drop-list, I tested 
on latest svn version (218): Is it a known bug? (same error for edit-list)

do %rebgui.r display "Test" [drop-list "Black" data ["Red" "Green" 
"Blue"]] do-events

I normally specify a size for the drop-list

Doesn't change the result, still crash.

display "Test" [drop-list 30x4 "Black" data ["Red" "Green" "Blue"] 
box 40x40] do-events
Should I report this as a bug on codeplex?

display "Test" [d: drop-list 30x4 "Black" data ["Red" "Green" "Blue"] 
box 40x40] do-events

after crash when I type d/picked into console, it gives the error.

error happens in on-click, on the line "result: .... first picked"

Hello everybody, I can't reach http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/dictionary/
 , is it normal?

I get "Forbidden".

What page has that link on it?

the RebGUI doc says to download the dictioanries from that page. 
What is the correct page for RebGUI dictionaries?

http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/functions.html

http://www.dobeash.com/RebGUI/widgets.html