World: r3wp

It is. It's much more flexible and thanks to the much lighter View 
engine in R3, it eats much less memory and is much faster.

Sounds good! Flexible, less memory and faster. It's like x-mas! :-)

Paul - there is more to the View engine. It is sometimes reported 
being 10 or more times being faster. Whole R2 View compositing engine 
was scrapped, and replaced by AGG one. AGG is our main engine now 
...

Still REBCODE would be cool for some effects ;-)

Henrik, I need to go change my shirt, I drooled all over myself looking 
at all of your styles.

hmm, maybe I should post short script of how to download all the 
files at once to your hd :-)

Brock - do you like Henrik's work? Me too. Although I hope we move 
away from 80, 90ties grey coloring. I initially did not like Carl's 
skin, but now I think it looks cool too :-) I hope it stays as an 
alternative :-)

For me the buttons are too heavy and I don't have a small resolution 
screen at all. But I believe it's easy to change it.

What do you mean by heavy? Too large?

and bold

It's probably the font that does it.

Henrik - does GUI only resize, or does it also scale? E.g. when I 
go for bigger display resolution, if all elements are scaled accordingly?

Oldes: http://rebol.hmkdesign.dk/files/r3/gui/104.png

Brock, I hope my best work is yet to come. :-)

uh, those in the middle are ugly beasts :-) It seems to me that antialiasing 
on small, 1px thick lines is creating kind of smears. Is that what 
is hinting for?

Pekr, in principle it can scale, as it's a matter of inserting scaling 
factors in each draw block, but I don't know how well it will look.

Pekr, that's the font renderer settings, which we can't alter yet.

yet
 means we do plan on altering it?

I really hope so. I believe AGG offers a lot of font hinting options 
that we are not using at all.

From what I can tell, the renderer displays fonts similar to what 
Freetype could produce around 10 years ago. We can do much better 
today.

eh .... not good then. Due to AA fonts are now much better than in 
R2, but it seems like some small final touch is always needed ...

It is perhaps also because I'm used to OSX' (IMHO) superior font 
rendering.

Pekr: http://www.antigrain.com/research/font_rasterization/index.html

oh, seems like AGG is really a cool engine. So we are not utilising 
it full-force, right?

As far as I can tell, we are not using it 100%.

In any case, I think we all really appreciate and admire your work 
Henrik. The slider screenshots are simply awesome.

You're doing some really beautiful work.

Thanks :-)

I see it as how I would want it to work and look myself. That's the 
best motivation.

Absolutely. We're fortunate that you have not only technical ability, 
but aesthetic sense.

:-)

The ticks on the slider are generated by a function, and I can freely 
choose how many total ticks, how big and how many levels there are 
supposed to be. I expect to use this a great deal more.

The above font rendering article is great work, but unfinished. It 
requires further work on both AGG and FreeType

It would be great if that could be done in R3

It's one of the things I have been eying for Syllable

anyone know the status of the developer? it looks pretty quiet on 
the site.

(The AGG site, that is)

Status of AGG is not good for us. First, - we are using AGG 2.4, 
which was really free. From AGG 2.5, it changed to GPL, and as we 
know, GPL sux :-)

Currently AGG is at version 2.6 IIRC. It is not much developed, as 
Maxim Shemanarev (author) took some job oportunity.

But as Cyphre stated - 1) maybe we could get special licence, as 
there was good relation of RT and Maxim 2) we are far from fully 
utilising even 2.4 version ...

Henrik, do you also have "tree" lists?

I think no more styles are defined. Dunno if even general list is 
in there ...

Not that I am a super fan of the "+" and "-" but they are a very 
popular way to organize and present data.

There is no tree style yet.

I know.. what's with me and the "list" fixation? I wonder if it has 
to do with always trying to order my life. Actually, I thought that 
this is the first thing that my .Net friends are going to ask to 
see.

james - your request is along of mine request and another blog posters 
- we should not even dare to release without at least simple table, 
tree, tabs. I have two friends, who use REBOL for quick prototyping 
and connection to DB. One of them works with MS SQL. He creates quick 
tools to help him manage some jobs and some of his colleagues already 
asked about the tool. I really hope that for such guys (who are not 
interested to create widget themselves, but to use some ready-to-gon 
ones) we can come up with some data friendly widgets ...

Pekr, I'm pretty sure it's possible, just a little time consuming 
to build them.

Perhaps this is a good topic for a list of gadgets that are needed.

AGG is still at 2.5, a bugfix release. He never got as far as 2.6 
and hasn't updated in 2+ years.

pity AGG is no more developed. There is no other option currently. 
Everybody else uses Cairo, but this is crap with more than 1MB size. 
Amanith seems interesting too, but commercial. Hopefully Maxim updates 
AGG at least to keep the trends. But so far - AGG is very high quality, 
so nothing to worry about for quite some time....