World: r3wp

Aha, so Red/System is just a general REBOL/C like language. We still 
need to wrap native functionality/libraries, to get tasking, events, 
etc. Btw - do you plan to utilise liboop, libevent, pthreads libraries, 
or will you write everything from scratch/your (REBOL) way?

Tasking

 will be brought by actor! datatype which will use a pool of OS threads 
 underneath. I am not sure what you mean precisely by "events". Liboop 
 and libevent are nice libraries, but probably overkill for Red, so 
 I will implement similar low-level OS bindings specifically for Red 
 (probably merged in the actor abstraction). For OS threads, I will 
 pick up the API provided natively by each OS.

Kaj, do you have already some gfx demo to show using Red/System + 
SDL or are you preparing something for the Software Freedom Day?

Just a lame gradient, but I'm preparing for SylCon, September 3

Do you need one?

For the Software Freedom Day, any Red/System cool demo is welcome.

I'll definitely have more then, that you can show

I'm programming redshift now and I've already found fault with the 
first SDL example ;-)

You mean Redshift in Red/System?

No, in SDL in 24 bits modes

I can finally paint a pixel in any video mode, but the SDL example 
for 24 bits is broken, and I've also hit another bug in Red

Nice! Waiting for your bug report...

Got to analyse it first

I can't analyse them as fast as you fix them :-)

Fortunately for me ;-)

It's up. This was the hardest to trace until now

All video modes also work on Syllable

I'm happy to report that raw SDL performance is almost twice as fast 
on Syllable as on Linux: a rendering that takes five seconds on Linux 
with X11 takes three on Syllable

This is on the same machine, in the same resolution, with hardware 
specific drivers installed on each

Also, dragging the window during the rendering doesn't visibly slow 
down the rendering on Syllable, while it clearly stutters on Linux

That's fantastic Kaj.

I can read a bitmap image now and blit it to the screen

http://web.syllable.org/images/screenshots/Desktop/0.6.6/Red-SDL-binding-on-SyllableDesktop-0.6.6.png

Impressive

That's cool!

http://www.colineau.fr/rebol/downloads/demoTTS_Red.zip


Demo of a dialog, using the Google TTS api.

a custom dll has been 
written, based on the reference :
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/audio-video/GoogleTTS-Ebook-Reader.aspx

This demo is only executable under windows, and requests an Internet 
link

Tested with Windows XP and red/system 0.2.1

compilation: do/args 
%rsc.r 
%demoTTS.reds -t Windows"

Nice little demo and works very well.

I've tested that my bindings are still compatible with the new release

Good to know.

Ooh, Text To Speech. Nice!

Yeah, good complement to your gfx binding to make a nice demo for 
the SFD 201. :-)

2011

I assume it's Windows code? I wouldn't be interested in it, but you 
can

The DLL is compiled for Windows, but maybe jocko could build it for 
Linux or Syllable too.

Or you can just make a wrapper on Google's TTS service using the 
cURL binding.

If he ported that C++ code, it's bound to Windows. But yes, it could 
be done with cURL. Leaves the small matters of binding sound in SDL 
and MP3 decoding :-)

From the Windows article:

Unknown languages are not played but you can make a lot of substitutions 
like let's say 

nl" do "de" etc. Mix sentences in different languages just for fun 
;)"

If you want to make Dutch people angry, you should do that...

Cross-posting jocko's reply from RebelBB french forum: 

There are two steps in this DLL: 


- first send a request to the Google api, for instance : http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=en&q=hello+world
Google returns an audio file : translate_tts.mp3


- second, automatically open this file and play it. I use a DirectXShow 
filter (windows only), directly able to render the url. In the case 
of Linux, cUrl could do the first step, and, for instance VLC the 
second

As Nenad allready mentioned, he will give a presentation about Red 
during Software Freedom Day 2011, wednesday 14th september, at the 
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Science Park Amsterdam: http://www.softwarefreedomday.eu/

TTS ...  nice.

Actually, my bindings don't work anymore with 0.2.1; they only compile

keep the good work :)

/me adds pixels too :P

Thanks.

Kaj: it seems I have introduced a regression on logic! handling in 
last commits. I will fix that asap.

Kaj: issue should be fixed now, I have added a couple new tests to 
avoid new regressions for such returned values.

Thanks! Logic! returns work again, but now I have another problem

I'm on it.