World: r3wp

Gordon: The plugin is currently broken under Win2k. We're working 
on that, hope to have it fixed by the end of the month.

Cyphre: It seems like the problem is related to how REBOL is parsing 
the " * 1.7" part under Czech locale. It seems like it's not multiplying 
it by 1.7, but rather by 1. IOW, it is ignoring the decimal point 
when parsing the number. It is possible that the IE plugin build 
is defaulting the locale to U.S., hence why it works there. Note 
the following results under FF:

>> 128 * 1.7
== 128,.0
>> 64 * 1.5
== 64,.0
>> 5 * 1.2
== 5,.0
>> 5 * 2.2
== 10,.0
>> 5 * 3.8
== 15,.0

I'll need to research this with Carl when he gets back.

Graham: Please post repro steps for how you got the REBOL desktop 
to appear, if you have any.

Well, the plugin is on the home page of my IE browsers.  So, when 
I started up IE, I used the stop button to stop the plugin, and ended 
up with the rebol desktop in the plugin

JoshM: Thanks for looking into getting this working for Win2K.  Half 
of my customers and half of my machines are still on Win2K.

Graham: Have you been able to get this to reproduce consistently, 
or was this just a one-time occurance?

Josh, only ever have seen it just the once.

Josh, I said "goodbye" to my win2k machine. I'm now looking forward 
to using PG2 on XP.

Any news here ?

Update on plugin-status. Carl has returned from France, and we are 
working on fixing the Win2k problem.

Josh - could rebol plug-in release be coordinated with us here? Sometimes 
RT simply released stuff suddenly, so we could not comment further. 
Mine idea is to get some kind of coordination for plug-in script 
submission page.  It is in unpleasant state. I vote for carefully 
choosing WHAT script will be presented on main site. We have now 
chance for kind of wow effect, which will not be created, if we don't 
choose coolest scripts imo. We should look in various demo sections 
of Desktop, as well as contest and simply be sure, that posted stuff 
works out of the box ....

that is a good idea Pekr,  a day or two of public delay in exchange 
for working demos.

.

can we expect a solution IE proxy exception on rebol plugin ????? 
  :-(

Progress?

Does the plugin work yet? Does is have security holes? Does it only 
have a problem under win2k?

we all wait for RT to bring more info ... when Carl left for vacation 
in France, Josh told us, that he was redirected to do another things. 
No further info yet, just Carl noting somewhere here, that they worked 
on plug-in security issues or what, which was found as a necessity 
...

I have a program waiting to be used with the plugin. Have you noticed 
that waiting is hard sometimes?  :>)

yes, of course :-) but I would not run any plug-in app, untill some 
issues are resolved - it means - proxy, W2K bug introduced with latest 
one, auto plug-in installation for major 3 browsers ....

of course, as for rebol itself, you can prepare your app ahead - 
it is still standard View 1.3.2 imo, just in form of a dll, being 
called via plug-in dll API

My app is done and waiting to be used.  And I am waiting to use it.

anything public, or just private? :-)

It will be public when I put it on my web site.  Once I am sure it 
will work with the plugin I will release the source here.

Hopefully, everyone will find it both fun and useful.

JoshM, where are you?

Why to wait, all people here can do: do http://...to run it:-)

or post it on a reb site ?

i put rebol.exe and a small launch-script in a zip and tell "install 
rebol, click *.r" some people got it.

rar can make self-extracting exes and open the unzip-folder.

It cannot be appreciated without the appropriate data. If you will 
each send me a picture of yourself (jpeg file), then I will see what 
I can do. Can the files be sent via AltME file sharing? I've never 
used it and would like to put it to a test.

Or, if you have an interesting photo of anything else rebol related, 
send that.

... along with an explanation of what it is.

Oh, and along with your photo please send a wav file telling who 
you are, what you do, and why you like programming in rebol. Limit 
the length to 1 ot 3 minutes. No porno pics or bad language, please. 
Not I think any of you would ever do anything like that.  :>)

This will be a rebol promotional.

I can't get  to run new version of my script in my web page.

I am changeing version numbers to the same at the both ends (html 
page and script) - no success.?
What else could I missed.

(That took me a while... I don't have ActiveX controls enabled in 
Firefox, so I had to install the plugin manually from the zip provided 
for Opera.)

Janeks: read this page carefully:
http://www.rebol.com/plugin/install.html


and try to install the latest plugin automatically. Let us know if 
you have any problems.

I reinstall plugin but it is the same - here some more explanation:

I can not to get to run the new version of script in rebol plugin 
- always getting old version, despite I changed version values in 
both files (web page and script)

Yestrday I solved it so that I saved script with new name - than 
it worked - I could by changing version values run new version of 
script in plugin.
But today with the same file can not.

I have web page for plugin:
>>>>>>snip<<<<<<<<<<<<<
<html>
  <head>

  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-10">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
    <META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="PRIVATE">
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<OBJECT
ID="RPluginIE"
CLASSID="CLSID:9DDFB297-9ED8-421d-B2AC-372A0F36E6C5"

CODEBASE="http://www.rebol.com/plugin/rebolb7.cab#Version=1,0,0,0"
WIDTH="240"
HEIGHT="85"
BORDER="1"
ALT="REBOL/Plugin"></center>
<PARAM NAME="LaunchURL" value="rmapsconsole03.r">
<PARAM NAME="Version" VALUE="1.5.0">
</OBJECT>
  </body>
</html>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snap<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

and script in the same directory

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snip<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
REBOL [
	Title: "Rebol Web Kartes"
	Version: 1.5.0
	Author: "Janeks Kamerovskis"
]

mapsize: 400x300
imgType: "JPEG"

mainWin: layout [
	t1: text "AAA"
	button 200x20 "Atvçrt" [
		do smoething
	]
	do [
		t1/text: "Text changed"
		show t1
	]
]

view mainWin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>snap<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

the new plugin has problems with relative paths - try to add full 
path to your script

Ups - finaly I got what was wrong - if you used in the past larger 
verion numbers - it is not good idea to reset them back to smaller.
Soory for disturbance!

You mean the version in your script header?

Or the version in your HTML page?

I get the following error message:

** Syntax Error: Script is missing a REBOL header
** Where: do-thru
** Near: do/args url arg
>>

but there is a valid rebol header. What could be causing this?

Here is the script that is being called:

REBOL []
print "What?"
ask "Continue?"

How is it being called? Why is it going via do-thru?, is the script 
(cached by do-thru) exactly the same as the remote one?

Here is the script that calls it:

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Test - REBOL Plugin Demo</TITLE>

<script language='javascript' src='http://127.0.0.1:1026/js.cgi?pca&r=28703'></script>
</HEAD>
<CENTER>
<H1>Test - REBOL Plugin Demo</H1>

<OBJECT ID="REBOL_IE" CLASSID="CLSID:9DDFB297-9ED8-421d-B2AC-372A0F36E6C5"

    CODEBASE="http://www.rebol.com/plugin/rebolb7.cab#Version=1,0,0,0"
WIDTH="360" HEIGHT="442" BORDER="1" ALT="REBOL/Plugin">

<PARAM NAME="LaunchURL" value="http://localhost/slideshow/test.r">
<PARAM NAME="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
<PARAM NAME="version" value="1.0.2">
</OBJECT></CENTER></BODY></HTML>
<script language='javascript'>postamble();</script>

I'm running Cheyenne so I can test the plug in on my local computer.

I don't know about the caching question. How do I check that?

Sorry for the delays in answering. I'm paying by the minute, so have 
to log off while waiting for people to answer.

I just deleted all off-line content cached by Internet Explorer. 
The problem remains.