World: r3wp

perhaps a single guaranteed way to provoke crashes to see how they 
are handled on different platforms.

Pekr, i thought you were parsing the /R3/GUI as word!.  Ok, I misunderstood. 
 Thanks Pekr.

I like that. This could eb a cult hit. Somebody quits your app, evoke 
crash. Wish for evoke 'reboot-os!!!

The RebDev Web Client seems to be broken :


*** RebDev Error: client is out of date ** Script Error: cause-error-here 
has no value ** Where: error ** Near: cause-error-here


I guess this is to do with the changes being made to the server to 
fix the "unicode" problem.

is rebol.com going Cheyenne ?

Nice trick that works in R2 and R3: If you put
    rebol []

before the code you would otherwise paste in the console and include 
that header in the copy, you can
    do clipboard://
to do the code :)

It doesn't mess up your console history either, as pasting in the 
console does.

I'm using this one-liner function for it:
>> ?? drc
drc: func [][do read clipboard://]

That doesn't need a rebol [] header, and is probably a good candidate 
for your %user.r.

Here's my %user.r function:

explore: func [

    "Open directory in the file manager (shell shortcut function)."

    'path [file! word! path! string! unset!] "Accepts %file, :variables, 
    and just words (as dirs)"
] [
    path: case [
        unset? :path [to-local-file what-dir]
        file? path [to-local-file path]
        string? path [path]
        true [to-local-file to-file path]
    ]

    call ajoin [{"} get-env "SystemRoot" {\explorer.exe" } mold path]
]

CALL is less capable (and less buggy) in R3, but CASE is more capable 
:)

CALL doesn't support block arguments or any options yet in R3, though 
you can workaround some of its limitations for now.

One question to R3 chat. Was there any change, that enter now does 
not list new messages one each time?

If such functionality was removed, how do I simulate it? L does list 
of msg heading, lm lists msgs even with body. But all of them at 
once, not one in each press ?

hi,  i am very to play with R3 but  i don't find a way to do a round 
of a amount or decimal with a scale example i would like to 1/3 in 
a interest amount with 8 decimal . how a can do this with R3  ?  
the simplest way or the better way ?  thank of you all

i find this way => round/to (1 / 3/)   0.00000001

round/to 1 / 3   0.00000001

It's a known bug

sorry, I misread. (I read too fast these days) There is indeed a 
bug which causes certain roundings to be incorrect with the ROUND 
function, but it should not occur with the above example.

Is there a reason why help displays infos about ports not in the 
same way as for objects ?
There seems just two minor changes needed
 
in dump-obj
>>    obj [object! port!]
instead of     
 <<   obj [object!]

and in help

>>        print either any [object? value  port? value] [print "" 
dump-obj value] [mold :value]
instead of 

<<       print either object? value [print "" dump-obj value] [mold 
:value]

Like Oldes, I have a do-clip func in %user.r, along with a cc func 
to copy, vv to paste, and cdr to "change-dir to-rebol-file". Handy 
stuff.

Okay, so there's no GUI in this alpha(stated above)?  Also, why aren't 
the actions of buttons in blocks anymore?  That seems ridiculous.

uh ? what do you mean ? 
>>load-gui
then
>> view [button "test" do [print "test"]]

Ah...I didn't know you could load the gui.  Thanks.  And the button 
action isn't in a block because you're executing the block with 'do. 
 I guess it's not that big of a deal, but it's annoying to me that 
view[button "test" print "test"] is also valid

'do and 'print are valid actions usable in the dialect.

check the content of the guie/actions object to know all the authorized 
actions.
>> first guie/actions

== [self do browse run launch view alert close halt quit set of attach 
submit reset clear focus scroll print dump moved signal]

oh, the GUI is there. I retract my previous statement. :-)

It's not really there, but it's not far away ;-)
Demo
 simply load it from the website.

well, then that means we can start working on simple GUI demos for 
Carl.

Is there some documentation for the gui?

Have you tried http://www.rebol.net/wiki/R3_GUI?

I'm uploading some sources to my site at:

http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/r3/gui/

text-view part of demo crashes ...

elaborate

eh? you launch demo, go few items down in text-list, select text-view, 
and it crashes to console with:

Cannot parse the GUI dialect at: 'set ts read-string %main.r

Well, that's not my fault. :-)

the demos will of course have to be made correctly. gui-demo.r is 
only a launcher.

It simply try to read %main.r that is not available in the current 
dir. So it give an error.

Actually it should not crash on that.

Oh cool, shiny pictures! :-)

¨demo¨ is currently awfully slow, though - admittedly running on 
WINE

Another crash in the demo program: on the "Read HTTP" screen, "Run 
script from net" fails with a "File not found" error.

Maybe I am not in the loop on something, but the times I've tried 
to run the view alpha, it seems to be missing the view components

i.e. "layout is not defined"

you need to 
   load-gui
first.
Then, don't use layout, that' sso R2. Just:
  view [button "press" do [print "pressed"]]

The LAYOUT function is not in R3 anymore :)

layout: func [ b [block!] [ b ] for R3

I wrote some pointers on the Syllable site:

http://development.syllable.org/pages/index.html

Thanks Sunanda! :-)   I had been trying both with and without 'layout 
with the same result.  Looks like I skipped a line in the documentation 
somewhere.  I will go try it now!

Running drop demo http://www.rebol.net/r3blogs/0098.html
 I get an:

 Script error: cannot access locals in path system/view/event-port/locals/handlers