World: r4wp

R3/Saphir OSX Version updated, should now work on OSX from 10.4 on.

R3/Saphir OSX Version updated, should now have working HTTPS scheme.

Announcing changes to Saphirion doc:


Function arity documentation and Argument passing styles documentation 
now adjusted to document both R2 and R3 versions. See

https://github.com/saphirion/documentation

I set up a Youtube account under the name of REBOL Coder using the 
gmail account [RedREBOLs-:-gmail-:-com]. I added a small number of youtube 
Red presentations. http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4UikCida6olTyowsi5JyyA

As it is an extra channel I think about sharing this account with 
interested from the community.

Robert, thank you for the improvements and progress with Android 
(sorry, I've been away from AltMe for a while)

@Arnold What about  http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL595BBBBC4CD91581
?

What a bad choice of color for your name - I just can't read it ... 
is it from Aries ?

I'm happy to announce that we made good progress regarding the Android 
R3 encapper.


A major breakthru in the multiple-app generation has been made (thanks 
to Andreas for ELF format hints). Now it is possible to create encapped 
apps with unique app-id. Such apps can be recognized properly by 
the Android OS and also accepted on the Google Play market.


The cool thing with this approach is one really don't need anything 
more than the Android encapper to produce the apk file. No need for 
android NDK, SDK or even JAVA to be installed ;-)


There are some glitches we are going to fix and than the encapper 
is ready for production.

For an example see http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/encap-demo.apk

Makedoc for Rebol3 from Chris http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/10001554#10001554

My Redis scheme was updated heavily and I hope it's ready for use 
by others. You can find it here: https://github.com/rebolek/prot-redis

I wrote a quick & minimal example illustrating how to use R3-GUI 
together with R3's async HTTP:

https://gist.github.com/earl/447e4e9510a68c308f6b

I changed the Red 0MQ interface to optimise the memory use during 
receiving of messages:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-ZeroMQ-binding/info/2a1541af57


SEND and RECEIVE have been renamed to send-string and receive-string, 
because they currently handle messages as UTF-8 text. When Red gets 
a binary! type, versions for binary messages will be added, and there 
will probably be type agnostic SEND and RECEIVE wrappers again. Previously, 
you used

message: receive socket


to receive a string message. Now you pass a premade string! (similar 
to call/output in R2):

message: ""
receive-string socket message


This means that you can choose between creating new strings for each 
message (with COPY) or reusing the same string. In the latter case, 
some Red/System code in receive-string makes sure that no extra Red 
memory is used, and that all used system and 0MQ memory is freed 
again. By optimising memory use, this also improves performance of 
message throughput.

This work will be paid for by Respectech as part of an assignment 
I'm doing for them. As far as we know, this is the first commercial 
assignment done with Red.


I'm implementing a network server that needs to run for long periods 
and handle relatively large numbers of requests. This is tricky because 
Red has no garbage collector yet, and the memory allocator doesn't 
handle large series yet. We have been testing the memory system to 
scale it, and Doc has fixed an allocator bug so that series can now 
be twice as large. I've also found and reported seven other bugs 
so far.


The results are very encouraging. The memory system is reliable in 
my stress testing. It can use all the memory available in a machine 
for the contents of series. In the default configuration, one series 
can have a maximum content of 2 MB, or 131070 values for a block!. 
This can be enlarged, basically at will, by compiling your program 
with customised allocator settings.


To reduce the amount of memory that currently cannot be reclaimed 
by garbage collection, I am reducing the number of series generated 
during the handling of each server request. This can be done within 
the same Red program, because low level optimised Red/System code 
can be inserted anywhere. I am down to only a few hundred bytes per 
handled request, and the memory budget of the server is a GB, so 
the Red 0MQ server will be able to handle several million requests.

For relevant platforms, I added extra versions of my Red interpreter 
console distributions to my downloads:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


They provide versions that include my 0MQ binding for messaging. 
Previous interpreter distributions didn't include it, because on 
most platforms, you have to install the 0MQ library as an extra. 
Further, people may need 0MQ with the GTK+ GUI binding, or without 
it on servers and embedded systems. So there are two new distributions 
in each platform folder:

*/Red/red-core-message
*/Red/red-message


red-core-message is meant for servers and includes bindings for the 
C library, cURL, SQLite and 0MQ. In addition, red-message also includes 
the GTK binding and is meant for GUI programs. For Windows, most 
of these interpreters are in the MSDOS/Red/ folder, but I also added 
a version that is meant to start scripts for GUI programs, so it 
doesn't open an extra console window:

Windows/Red/red-message.exe

As an example, the interpreter to run messaging scripts on a Raspberry 
Pi without GUI is here:

Linux-ARM/Red/red-core-message


The interpreter to develop GUI scripts on x86 Linux to communicate 
with a Raspberry Pi is here:

Linux/Red/red-message


A similar interpreter to develop GUI scripts on Windows to communicate 
with a Raspberry Pi is here:

MSDOS/Red/red-message.exe


As always, for Windows you also have to download the libraries that 
are included in the repository, according to the instructions here:


http://web.syllable.org/news/2012-11-18-20-47-Red-high-level-programming-language-first-alpha.html

In addition to these added programs, the existing interpreters and 
other programs have been rebuilt with the latest Red enhancements, 
including the doubled maximum size for series.


These new Red interpreters are candidates to be used in filming and 
streaming the presentations on the DevCon in Montreal.

https://github.com/saphirion/includerepository created, containing 
the %include.r and %include.mdp files

Ladislav, couldn't you convert the docs to markdown into a file called 
readme.md so that they are visible by default?

Added 2 more video's to the RedRebols channel http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4UikCida6olTyowsi5JyyA

I forgot to tell about not requiring a specific return, not needed 
to declare types and use of normal naming is encouraged and the automatic 
casting of the return value. Need to make a [3.5] too someday..

Video number 5 posted. This one uses routine to call a Red/System 
function from a Red script.

I'm happy to announce that Doc and I got the first Red/System kernel 
driver working, for Windows. This is Doc's second kernel driver, 
and my first, and also my first real Windows program, so it took 
a few weeks to figure it out. This new ability of Red is sponsored 
by Respectech. Our test driver just loads and prints a Hello World 
style message that a kernel debugger can view, but I will be developing 
the driver into the functionality we need for our Respectech project. 
I will post the code of the test driver in the Red group.

This replaces the Windows Driver Development Kit (WDK) that you normally 
have to install on Windows to compile drivers. The WDK is a full 
CD download, 650MB. You don't need the WDK, but currently, you do 
still need to run the Red/System compiler on Windows (or WINE on 
Linux) to compile Windows drivers. This limitation will be removed 
later, so you will be able to cross-compile Windows drivers from 
all other Red platforms, like you can with other Red programs.

You should be able to compile the test driver with the latest Red/System 
development version, following the normal build procedure but adding 
the following parameter to the Red/System compiler command line:

rsc.r -t WinDRV driver.reds


This effectively replaces a makefile build script that the WDK uses 
that is almost 12,000 lines.


By the way, the WDK is unable to work in a path that contains spaces, 
so for example on older Windows versions such as XP, you can't develop 
drivers in your home directory, because your home path always contains 
spaces. I think Red will now allow you to do that.

You will get a driver.sys file that you can install, start, query 
and remove like this, from a Windows account with administrative 
rights:


sc create hello-Red type= kernel binPath= C:\full\path\to\driver.sys
sc qc hello-Red
sc start hello-Red
sc query hello-Red
sc delete hello-Red

To view the debug message generated by sc start, you need to install 
a (kernel) debug tool such as DebugView, and enable kernel debugging 
in the Windows boot options.


Other than that, you should see sc query showing the driver as running.

Red has a new platform, Android for x86 processors, so I added it 
to the downloads of example programs:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


The Android programs for both ARM and x86 include the recent fixes 
to the Red Android port, so they have a better chance of working 
now. I would still like someone to test them.


All example programs for other platforms have also been rebuilt with 
the latest Red enhancements and fixes.

Remember Doc's instructions for running command line programs on 
Android:

http://www.red-lang.org/2011/12/arm-support-released.html

Now that generation of shared libraries and drivers is available 
in Red's mainline, I have extended my build script to build libraries 
and drivers. I have added examples of a Windows kernel driver and 
libraries for R3 extensions in both Red/System and Red to the downloads 
repository mentioned above. The R3 extensions are available for all 
platforms to test, but the Windows kernel driver is here, as hello-kernel-driver.sys:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip&name=MSDOS/RedSystem


See above how to start the driver. Instructions for using the R3 
extensions are in the headers of the source code:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-REBOL-3/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

I have extended the Red/System null driver for the Windows kernel 
into a null mini-filter driver. It now registers itself as a mini-filter 
and imports functions not only from the kernel, but also from the 
FilterManager driver, so it is now in a hierarchy of drivers. It 
now responds to a stop command, so you can stop running the driver 
like this:

sc stop hello-Red


I will set up a new repository later to publish the Windows kernel 
and FilterManager bindings and examples.

We did a new Saphir / R3 Andoid release.

Changes:
-fixed input text renderin bug

-reworked misc internal threads synchronisation issues to fix possible 
dead locks
-added ACTIVE, INACTIVE events
-added horizontal native scrolling for layouts wider than screen
-fixed screen rotation
-updated demo script (just type DEMO in the console)
-fixed BROWSE bug

-added .r3 suffix to be able open this type of R3 scripts automatically
-other smaller internal fixes


If you want to test it on your phone just run the console and type:

do http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/demo.r


ATTENTION: We changed the directory layout a bit. You find the Andoid 
release here:

http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/builds/android

We added other platforms as well:
http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/builds/

And the root is still:
http://development.saphirion.com/experimental/


Next Wednesday I will give a short talk about our porting efforts 
here via Web-Cast:  http://www.vksi.de/sneak-preview/17072013-android-qs.htm
(German)

In conjunction we did a new R3-GUI release as well.


added DETAB flag support
fixed TEXT-AREA issues
fixed TEXT init-size handling
fixed SIZE-TXT bug
built new R3GUI release (version 4897)
delete "experimental" layout-sizing-independent.r3
improve rouding
move docs/r3-gui/ to documentation/r3/r3-gui/

remove documentation/r3/r3-gui/license/ directory containing obsolete 
license
Copyright notice update
license update
typo fixed
Rounding correction
improved rotate event handling

improved drag handling code (removed duplicate gui-events/drag reference)
improved android text input handling
fixed progress resizing
improved text-able cell font handling
fonts are antialiased by default on android now

http://development.saphirion.com/resources/r3-gui.r

Some additional notes:

-you can run the demo on Saphir / R3 Andoid just by typing DEMO in 
the console

-the Linux, OSX-PPC and OSX-Intel "View" binaries needs 32-bit version 
of freetype2 library (also included in the specific build folders)

-the Linux, OSX-PPC and OSX-Intel "View" binaries are currently able 
to render DRAW dialect to image! (using the DRAW command). We'll 
be working to get full graphics support on the metioned platforms 
in the near future.

I upgraded the 0MQ library for Windows that is included in my Red 
downloads from version 2.0.10 to 2.2.0:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


Timeouts are now available for sending and receiving messages, and 
the OpenPGM library is included for multicast networking. Thanks 
to MikeL for noting the newer binary builds for Windows.

Robert, Cyphre Congratulations !! Correct link for r3-gui is: http://development.saphirion.com/resources/r3-gui.r3
(no .r)

New World alpha release at
https://github.com/Geomol/World


- Added better networking using cURL library, libcurl (OS X and Linux)
- Added tasks incl.:
	- task! datatype
	- task-id! datatype
	- TASKS native function
	- task? and task-id? mezzanines

 - Task support for many functions incl. HELP, SOURCE, FIRST, SECOND, 
 PICK, COMPILED? and DISASM
	- KILL mezzanine to call TASKS/KILL

- Added inter-task communication using SEND and RECEIVE native functions
- Added support for messages to WAIT as: wait 'message

- Added preemptive multitasking using TASKS/TICKS to specify number 
of Virtual Machine instructions per task run (default is 200)

- Added timers for tasks triggered by WAIT native and READ native, 
when reading from url
- Task yield can be achieved by: wait 0
- Changed ;{ } comment syntax to ;( )
- Parens can now span several lines at the prompt
- Added system/console/paren
- Added support for pressing <Esc> to stop execution of main task

- Sending input via pipe to World started with a script will activate 
input without echo and without <tab>-completion etc.. (Not sure how 
and if this works under Windows.)
- Added support for picking 'Re and 'Im of complex numbers
- Better implementation of TRY

- New test versions of IF and EITHER, that can take other than block! 
arguments
- Added more tests

We have pushed our R3-GUI sources to Github. The project was cleaned 
up, old stuff removed etc. So it should be in pretty good shape. 
We keep the GibHub repository in sync with our internal SVN repository. 
We will further take a look at pull requests and take your feedback 
into our main line. You can find the repository here:

https://github.com/saphirion/r3-gui

README adjustments made as Adrian proposed.

Thank you very much Robert and your team members for all of your 
efforts. I'll also contribute to your advancement by sending some 
contributions to you very soon. Just waiting for my next pay cheque 
in about 15 days.