[ALLY] Re: More on Do's and Views
From: pa:russo:perd at: 26-Apr-2001 10:18
>Hi.
>
>The main snag I hit is after ive "viewed" another pane, the parent
>script ceases to function... until the viewed window is closed.
>
>For exampe, a script that continuosly reads a .txt file and pops up
>any text it finds. (below) Now you would think that this script
>would launch one window every second with the contents of the .txt
>file displayed, but it doesn't... not until you close the viewed
>window. How would you get this script to just keep opening windows
>with any new .txt data???
>
>REBOL []
>
>forever [
>wait 1
>a: read %file.txt
>if not empty? a [
>view layout [
>text a
>button "Clear file" [write %file.txt ""]
>]]]
>
>Thanks
>TBrownell
To generate a new window you have to use a refinement. I don't have
my reference here, so I'm not sure, but it seems to me that the right
syntax is VIEW/NEW.
You can easily verify with HELP VIEW from your console.
Anyway it seems to me there is a limit of 8 independent windows.
Again, I'm not sure.
Hope it helps.
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Paolo Russo
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