World: r3wp

What happened to Cyphre?  I thouht he was involved in some of that 
stuff?  He always had the coolest REBOL View apps.

He's working on QTask.

He works with Reichart?

yes, I believe he does.

ahhh, I didn't know that.

Gabriele has worked on QTask as well, but I don't know if he's done 
with his stuff yet.

So who all is working on R3 right now?  What does the team consist 
of?

I'm pretty sure Carl is very deep into VID design now

So VID is the last major hurdle before release?

I think there are many hurdles

Carl is at this very moment the only one working on it, so we're 
waiting for VID3.4. Once the prototype is out and evaluated we can 
move to the next hurdle.

which is probably modules. then tasks.

What other hurdles are we expecting and/or what is the projected 
release timeframe?

There is no ETA

Never did like that type of schedule.

I've heard rumors that it has to be before the end of 2008. But they 
are just rumors. :-)

I'll take that timeframe.

Other hurdles are modules, the open host interface, plug-ins, schemes, 
etcetera

I was thinking the earliest to be at least next summer.

well, we had a ridiculous timeframe set up last year. it did not 
hold up one bit, so usually no deadlines are put up.

(beta period was one month. riight. :-))

I don't see how Carl has time with the ham radio hobby and wine making 
and a ranch to run etc... - let alone the day to day running of RT.

Sometimes things do move a little too slow. We're all little threads 
waiting for that Carl-thread to complete, so we can move on.

heh - yes indeed.

There's plenty to work on in advance

You mean for the team to work on and it sounds like they are busy 
with other stuff.

The problem for me is keeping little human threads scheduled to those 
activities, instead of activities conflicting with R3

No, there's plenty to work on for us in preparation of R3

I've been working with REBOL since 98 and gotten use to their schedules. 
 This is nothing new.

Yeah, unfortunately

We do have some very specific things that need to be done, such as 
FTP and making other protocols and REBOL/Services (which has been 
ported now). I need to get VID3.4 done, so I can work on GUI and 
graphics.

When it finally happens I'm sure it will be very cool.

Speaking of Graphics - Henrik weren't you the one that inquired one 
time about my text-list modification that had the colored text lists?

Was wondering if something like was ever going to be part of standard 
VID.

were you the one that did that text list? that would be about a year 
before I started working on LIST-VIEW.

Yeah it was the one that had different colors that could be changed 
depending on the data.

I personally want to see LIST-VIEW capabilities in R3's list view 
what ever that will be, but it will probably be split up in simple/advanced 
for speed vs. bloat factor.

You if the item in the data was the word red then it would show up 
in the text list on just that line as red same with blue and any 
other color they would show up as their own specified color.

Yeah I remember the need for that was immense back then especially.

have you used LIST-VIEW?

Yes I have - I like it alot.

thanks very much

Your welcome.

I use it in about 50 different places. If I didn't have it, I probably 
wouldn't be working with REBOL today. It's that important to me.

I recall someone (don't recall who) made a REBOL gui that wasn't 
square but oval shaped and based solely on faces (no layout use).

Was very functional and fast.

Maxim has done something alternative, but I haven't used it, so I 
don't know if it was that.

This was so long ago I don't have a clue who it was.

in the mean time, it looks like VID for REBOL/View 2.7.7 might contain 
considerable additions, such as GUI resizing and proper error parsing 
of layouts.

Are we going to do a 2.7.7?