World: r3wp

So aside from being coded to be "friendly" to any exisiting multi-montor 
display managers, there isn't much REBOL could do...at least not 
cross-platform...in my humble and zero experience opinion.

i think the current behavior is better than many other apps. but 
it can be improved a bit. we'll see...

it could detect monitors ... they are often numbered 1, 2, 3 ... 
and their orientation, resolution :-) Then we could have 1, 2, 3 
etc panes to post our apps to :-) That is my very unexperienced opinion 
too :-)

Gabriele - you mentioned "skinning". Will basic VID3 design be vector 
based, or still bitmap based? And will it be upon "skin" just to 
skin existing element, or will skin include also code of how to draw 
the element?

well, then where is a window which is between two monitors?

it can't be in two panes at the same time.

i think, where windows go should be left to the user. what's important 
is that rebol does not try to center windows incorrectly, or to clip 
them to the first monitor and so on.

skinning is completely abstracted and you can have whatever look 
for the styles. currently we only use draw, not images, but some 
styles may require images. anyway it depends on the skin, vid does 
not care at all what you do.

ah, valid point, I do remember some Delphi app incorrectly centered 
itself between two monitors ...

I'd leave this up to a display manager.  That is until there is an 
R3wm  :)

re skinning - sounds well abstracted. The same goes for your mention 
of layout no caring about actualy rendering anything too ....

source of layout function is like 4 lines ;)

Taunting the bears again huh?  :)

Gabriele - one of your past discussion was also so called two-ways 
functionality. I mean - after you do layout in R2, from the "live" 
state, e.g. by moving UI element, get it back to layout. So once 
you relayout you loose that info. Could that be solved?

ah, so why is there layout at all? :-) Could Rebol code 4 lines be 
any usefull? Scary question with REBOL :-)

hmm, what do you mean exactly?

layout it is useful. you would probably not guess those four lines. 
:)

hmm, not sure - I just remember one discussion ... you have layout 
[button 100x200 "ok" [print ok]] ... then you e.g. programatically 
move or resize the button .... layout simply is here like a template, 
which generates faces. The reverse aproach is not here ... maybe 
it even can't ....

is one of those lines - "; comment - for compatibility reasons ...." 
:-)

so basically, given win: layout [something here]  you want to get 
back the dialect block from win?

not sure I want, not sure it would be usefull. It is just that I 
remember one product which claimed to do something like that ....

I have e.g. screen painter in mind ... but with screen painter you 
can save exact pixel position, not generating dialect at all ....

what if i tell you that it was the main objective of the second prototype? 
:)

:-) well, then I can tell that someone found it usefull. Now what 
is its practical use? :-)

should i tell you? ;)

btw - what did you mean by "new dialecting method of R3"? What is 
new on dialecting itself, if 'parse did not change yet?

there is another function to implement dialects. you will find out 
soon enough.

Just to split your thinking Gabriele, is the Beta going to have a 
REBOL/Core .so for us Linux people?  With enough docs to have a go 
at embedding in something like say a D program?

(i personally prefer parse, but the new one is more efficient and 
so better for simpler dialects like vid etc.)

beta will be windows only.

eh, so we got something else than 'parse? How can dialect be built 
without the parser?

docs on the DLL... i don't think Carl has written them yet.

DOH!  :)

... using new method is the answer probably :-)

Wine capable?

i share your pain, i use wine all the time, and there is actually 
one bug in r3 on wine that forces me to start the other pc with windows 
sometimes.

Rasasfrasa  :)  Vista or XP?  I was just about to completely remove 
my copy of XP.

also about docs... i plan to be available here full time for a couple 
days after release, to answer all questions and provide some kind 
of support.

i don't have vista and i don't even want to get close to it.

but, i assume it works on vista too.

I am on Vista right now ... it is a fine ... useless, mess :-)

Neither do I, but for an R3 beta I'll boot one of the boxes to...windows(tm). 
 Rasafrasa.

Vista is pretty much what I expected MS to come up with, and that's 
a terrifying thought.

hmm, those docs could be really posted, even if not complete .... 
of course we would have to promise not to bother you with question 
before you are ready to release ...

the docs that are available will be posted on release.

You've come to a sad realization...Cancel or Allow

but, i bet you guys will have a thousand questions anyway.

pekr, right now, posting docs would mean all docs, since they are 
all stored in the same wiki

Gabriele, personally I'm of the opinion that releasing VID3 early 
will pose too many questions. If released later, VID3 will speak 
for itself, and people will go "oohh" rather than "oh no! why?". 
:-)

yes, I just meant posting the link to docs could speed-up after-release 
phase, as ppl would at least theoretically know what is coming and 
what is particular design meaning of new things. IMO post-docs-one-week-before-the-release 
could be a good thing to consider ....