[REBOL] Re: pair-edit style - desktop url argument
From: carl:cybercraft at: 21-Jun-2002 15:40
Hi Anton! (:
On 21-Jun-02, Anton wrote:
> Yeah, I thought this too. 'desktop should be like 'browse.
> We could probably patch desktop to do this, I reckon.
> Looking in ctx-viewtop:
> desktop ; first go to desktop and then exit to console
> print mold first ctx-viewtop
> I see some interesting looking words:
> load-index
> goto-url
> find-site
> goto-view
>
> but it turns out that the function we want is
> show-folder, which takes a url argument eg.
> ctx-viewtop/show-folder site/index.r
> Now we just need to patch desktop so it takes an
> optional argument. Here's the original desktop:
> desktop: func [][
> if block? ctx-viewtop [ctx-viewtop: context ctx-viewtop]
> ctx-viewtop/init-desktop
> do-events
> ]
> The patched version:
> desktop: func [url [url! file! any-type!]][
> if block? ctx-viewtop [ctx-viewtop: context ctx-viewtop]
> ctx-viewtop/init-desktop
> if value? 'url [ctx-viewtop/show-folder :url]
> do-events
> ]
> Now you can go directly to my site first (:
> desktop http://www.lexicon.net/anton/rebol/gui/index.r
> From there, it's one click to demo-pair-edit.r :)
> Seems to work pretty well, though I thought I noticed it not working
> once in a new rebol. Anyone else notice this, please report it.
It won't work if you're in local mode and the site's not in your local
directory. (Of course:) But the Desktop handles it gracefully and
just shows what we normally get at startup.
> Anton.
That's real cool Anton! Except instead of calling the function
'desktop I've called it 'Antop. (; And added it to my user.r.
It also handles leaving off the index.r too, though the trailing slash
is required. ie...
antop http://www.lexicon.net/anton/rebol/gui/
Now, how do we get everyone to start using Antop and to paste their
rebsite URLs using the above format? ...
>>>> Desktop/REBOL.com/Sites/Anton/gui/demo-pair-edit.r
>> I've been wondering about a better way to go to pages on the
>> Desktop, as often people supply two methods like Anton has above,
>> but the Desktop "URL" isn't usable. It should be as easy as doing
>> an URL from the console. Perhaps something like this...
>> desktop %public/sites/someones-rebsite/
>> to load the desktop and go directly to "someones-rebsite"? Others
>> can no doubt think of a better format, but this is just to start a
>> discussion. Or does IOS already have some method for doing this
>> that will be in future versions of View?
--
Carl Read
