World: r3wp

it might be windows 7 specific since I've never had a problem with 
rebol copy/paste on XP.  
they changed a lot of APIs in vista/7 . 

Altme is a different story though.

one thing to look out for in view (in any face using the caret and 
standard focus mechanism) is that when windows are closed, they do 
not unfocus their fields.  this has bitten me quite a few times which 
made other key handlers seem like they where dead.


this is why you should always call unfocus when you open or close 
a window in view.

How about including a few common parse rules ... such as digit, digits, 
alpha alphanumeric in the standard build.  Adds nothing really.to 
size.

That's a good idea. Should be part of R3 as well.

some of these exist already but they're hidden inside special contexts 
such as the url parser

Well, this is interesting....


I don't have clipboard functionality in 2.7.8 while Prevx is running, 
but I do in 2.7.6.  Turn off Prevx monitoring and my 2.7.8 clipboard 
starts to work again.

Checking the Prevx support forum, it appears that they block pasting 
to applications to prevent clipboard monitoring. R2.7.6 is probably 
in their whitelist. Someone with a Prevx license needs to report 
that they are blocking 2.7.8, so they can add it to their whitelist.

In particular, they block all apps not in their whitelist any time 
a "secured" web browser is open.

a secured web browser??  do you mean a https site is open?

Nice, a tool that prevents you from using your computer, unless you 
tell them that you really want to

I'd already figured out i needed to disable prevx for doing screen 
captures!

Didn't you install it for nailing your clipboard and screen buffer 
shut?

No :)

I installed it because I'm too cheap to buy a virus scanner

No, I mean any web browser that the Prevx plugin is installed in, 
when Prevx is running. That's what they call a "secured browser". 
If Prevx is running, it restricts clipboard use to apps it has whitelisted.

Jeez, I live in my web browser

Why would you buy a virus scanner, when there are so many good free 
ones?

Can't you just live in Chrome with AdBlock? That solves most of your 
browser security problems.

I haven't bought a virus scanner in my life

And i'm forced to use 3 different browsers

Ah. Well, I've found MSE to be good enough, with Malwarebytes as 
a backup. No charge for either.

Or you can camp out in the Prevx forums and make sure that every 
program that you use/make that uses the clipboard gets on their whitelist.

I think I'll just uninstall it ... and use the MSE one

It's too secure for me

Or you can live in Linux without any virus scanners

I haven't installed a virus scanner in my life on my own machines

Well, that's not entirely true; I ran Cerebrus on Windows 2000 :-)

My Cerebrus wasn't really a virus scanner .. if that's what you meant

It did look for  base64 encoded signatures though in the body of 
the mail

My mistake, I was always under the impression that you meant those 
signatures to encode for viruses...

So it wasn't a misspelling of Cerberus?

I guess it's a matter of choice how one spells things and also better 
to avoid other products with the same name but different spelling.

Yes, it was to search for viruses but I think it was because there 
was a particular flurry of some viruses at that time so I thought 
it would be easy enough to add ...

just to scan for those ones

But it was primarily an antispam engine

Good, then my record is clean: I've never run a virus scanner in 
my life :-)

I'm wondering if it would be possible to get the R3 DLL interface 
into R2 without big trouble?

what do you mean by R3 DLL interface? Whole extension stuff? I think 
it might be easier to finish R3 :-) In both cases though, we need 
Carl :-)

Yes, the DLL interface.

well, I don't understand - there is no DLL interface for R3, is there? 
I do remember some related bounty, Max started some work, but it 
was not finished. Anyway - as I said - R2 = only Carl can do it?

is Carl still alive?

Oldes - according to his mendoradio blog, he still is http://mendoradio.wordpress.com/
 .... noone knows though, when and if ever his new linux related 
job ends, and what does it mean for the REBOL future ...

Seems to be complicated: I wonder if the R3 extension interface can 
be brought to R2 to make it simpler to use DLLs. Now clear?

Robert - absolutly .....

Hmm, maybe a reverse question - what is missing in R3 in order to 
use it instead of R2? Just curious ....

Legacy code. Our products are R2 based and I want to use the same 
extensions. At the moment I have to handle code differences on the 
C side which I would like to avoid.

Sounds logical then.

It would be messy. R2 can't be touched, so it would have to be done 
through the Library interface. That's less powerful than the R3 extensions 
interface, so you'd have to develop a separate library in C that 
mimicks R3 extensions. Some functionality such as callbacks would 
still be pretty much impossible

Why can't R2 be touched? R2 version 2.7.8 was released 1-Jan-2011. 
Has something changed?

What you would be developing is already in R3, so It's a lot simpler 
to just interface R2 and R3. Probably the most straightforward option 
for that is 0MQ