[ALLY] View/VID prebeta 5 is worth trying
[1/11] from: carl:rebol at: 30-Aug-2000 21:13
A new REBOL/View is posted in http://www.rebol.com/xpers/xpers.html. This one is quite
interesting because it contains many changes to VID. It also has a test panel built-in
to help you find tests without a hassle. In addition, you can add your own test site
to the panel... so the rest of us can try out your scripts! Links are added on a first
come first serve basis, so reserve your spot in history by adding your site link soon.
Click on the What's Up icon for more info about the release.
CONVERTING SCRIPTS:
------------------
Most VID scripts can be converted by knowing that:
1) STYLIZE has changed. It now takes a line similar to a LAYOUT. Examples:
stylesheet: stylize [
red-btn: button red
big-btn: button 200x40
big-red-img-button: button red 200x40 %bay.jpg
center-txt: txt center font-size 16
]
To quickly convert, you can use STYLIZ (no E)... which is the old function. But, note
that it will be vanishing soon.
2) Use face/data field for accessing the data of a VID face. For instance, to print
the choice made on a rotary button, you would write:
r: rotary "breakfast" "lunch" "dinner" [print first r/data]
This is true with all styles.
Note the multiple facets allowed for rotary here. Try:
r: rotary "go" green "stop" red "yield" yellow
or
r: rotary "go" "stop" "yield" green red yellow
This is good stuff. Makes VID now the most powerful user interface language ever created.
Tell a friend.
3) There are many new styles. For instance, TXT, H1, H2, H3, etc. will give you document
face styles (black text without shadows).
CREATING A TEST SITE
--------------------
I want you to create your own test site, even if you only have one VID script. REBOL
needs you. It's important. And, it's fun too.
Here's how to create a site:
1) Create a file called index.r in the format:
REBOL []
icon "Big Test" %bigtest.r
icon "Image" %photo.jpg
icon "Link" %docs.html
icon "Reply" %replier.r image %myicon.jpg
icon "Files" dir %index2.r ; links to another index file
2) Upload the file and any scripts/images to your website.
3) Publish your test site by using the "Add a Site" icon in View (found on the REBOL
site page in the sites directory). Give the URL for your index.r file. You can provide
an icon for your site as well.
4) Verify that it works, then tell us about it here on the list.
5) Write a lot of scripts and add them to your site.
OTHER DOCS
----------
I have a much better VID document nearly ready. Watch for it to appear in View under
the REBOL site. There are also entirely new CORE chapters to be published very soon.
FEEDBACK
--------
Feedback has never been easier. Click on the feedback icon.
GO FOR IT
---------
I need your help... REBOL needs your help. Now is the time to go for it. Start working
on REBOL view scripts today. Publish them toay on your site or on someone else's site.
Tell your friends about REBOL. Tell your press contacts about REBOL. Get them helping
out.
The time for REBOL is now.
-Carl
[2/11] from: carl:rebol at: 30-Aug-2000 23:57
Looks like the REBOL script on this end did not upload it... let me give it a try...
-Carl
At 8/31/00 02:57 PM +1000, you wrote:
[3/11] from: carl:rebol at: 31-Aug-2000 0:28
>>I couldn't find the "Add a Site" at first, so I deleted the old index.r file
>>in the public/www.rebol.com directory, ran the demo again and the new
>>options were available.
Also... be sure you are running 0.10.27, the latest download. -Carl
[4/11] from: rebol:techscribe at: 31-Aug-2000 1:21
... and click on the up-arrow button on the left of the REBOL panel. That's
cool!
At 12:28 AM 8/31/00 -0700, you wrote:
>>>I couldn't find the "Add a Site" at first, so I deleted the old index.r
file
>>>in the public/www.rebol.com directory, ran the demo again and the new
>>>options were available.
>
>Also... be sure you are running 0.10.27, the latest download. -Carl
>
;- Elan [ : - ) ]
author of REBOL: THE OFFICIAL GUIDE
REBOL Press: The Official Source for REBOL Books
http://www.REBOLpress.com
visit me at http://www.TechScribe.com
[5/11] from: carl:rebol at: 31-Aug-2000 2:03
Pirate flag.
At 8/31/00 01:21 AM -0700, you wrote:
[6/11] from: ralph:abooks at: 31-Aug-2000 9:48
very neat, Carl!
--Ralph
[7/11] from: allenk:powerup:au at: 31-Aug-2000 14:57
> CREATING A TEST SITE
> --------------------
>
> I want you to create your own test site, even if you only have one VID
script. REBOL needs you. It's important. And, it's fun too.
> Here's how to create a site:
> 1) Create a file called index.r in the format:
<<quoted lines omitted: 6>>
> 2) Upload the file and any scripts/images to your website.
> 3) Publish your test site by using the "Add a Site" icon in View (found on
the REBOL site page in the sites directory). Give the URL for your index.r
file. You can provide an icon for your site as well.
I couldn't find the "Add a Site" at first, so I deleted the old index.r file
in the public/www.rebol.com directory, ran the demo again and the new
options were available.
So I've submitted it now. But I haven't seen it turn up yet, but it works if
I type it directly into the url field
http://www.rebolforces.com/index.r
Cheers,
Allen K
[8/11] from: carl:rebol at: 30-Aug-2000 21:12
A new REBOL/View is posted in http://www.rebol.com/xpers/xpers.html. This one is quite
interesting because it contains many changes to VID. It also has a test panel built-in
to help you find tests without a hassle. In addition, you can add your own test site
to the panel... so the rest of us can try out your scripts! Links are added on a first
come first serve basis, so reserve your spot in history by adding your site link soon.
Click on the What's Up icon for more info about the release.
CONVERTING SCRIPTS:
------------------
Most VID scripts can be converted by knowing that:
1) STYLIZE has changed. It now takes a line similar to a LAYOUT. Examples:
stylesheet: stylize [
red-btn: button red
big-btn: button 200x40
big-red-img-button: button red 200x40 %bay.jpg
center-txt: txt center font-size 16
]
To quickly convert, you can use STYLIZ (no E)... which is the old function. But, note
that it will be vanishing soon.
2) Use face/data field for accessing the data of a VID face. For instance, to print
the choice made on a rotary button, you would write:
r: rotary "breakfast" "lunch" "dinner" [print first r/data]
This is true with all styles.
Note the multiple facets allowed for rotary here. Try:
r: rotary "go" green "stop" red "yield" yellow
or
r: rotary "go" "stop" "yield" green red yellow
This is good stuff. Makes VID now the most powerful user interface language ever created.
Tell a friend.
3) There are many new styles. For instance, TXT, H1, H2, H3, etc. will give you document
face styles (black text without shadows).
CREATING A TEST SITE
--------------------
I want you to create your own test site, even if you only have one VID script. REBOL
needs you. It's important. And, it's fun too.
Here's how to create a site:
1) Create a file called index.r in the format:
REBOL []
icon "Big Test" %bigtest.r
icon "Image" %photo.jpg
icon "Link" %docs.html
icon "Reply" %replier.r image %myicon.jpg
icon "Files" dir %index2.r ; links to another index file
2) Upload the file and any scripts/images to your website.
3) Publish your test site by using the "Add a Site" icon in View (found on the REBOL
site page in the sites directory). Give the URL for your index.r file. You can provide
an icon for your site as well.
4) Verify that it works, then tell us about it here on the list.
5) Write a lot of scripts and add them to your site.
OTHER DOCS
----------
I have a much better VID document nearly ready. Watch for it to appear in View under
the REBOL site. There are also entirely new CORE chapters to be published very soon.
FEEDBACK
--------
Feedback has never been easier. Click on the feedback icon.
GO FOR IT
---------
I need your help... REBOL needs your help. Now is the time to go for it. Start working
on REBOL view scripts today. Publish them toay on your site or on someone else's site.
Tell your friends about REBOL. Tell your press contacts about REBOL. Get them helping
out.
The time for REBOL is now.
-Carl
[9/11] from: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 31-Aug-2000 9:28
Carl,
new /View is not good - it's much more, it's fantastic. Very nice design. Still can't
believe the change.
few comments (should I send them to feedback?):
- when moving in rebol editor by keyboard, it doesn't update slider ....
- typing 'demo in console quits rebol ...
My thanks go to the whole RT team ... :-)
-pekr-
[10/11] from: carl:rebol at: 31-Aug-2000 2:17
Thanks.
It would be best to start with VID functions first... and not the control panel.
There are various bugs in the control panel, but my priorities are VID first (because
everything else is built on it, including our Express product).
At this time, many VID styles are done, and should work fine. They are the simpler functions...
and should be the focus for testing right now. See the VID test posted in the panel.
The more complex VID styles, like text boxes, lists, panels, are still in progress, so
don't spend time on them for a few days. I know the problems.
I'll publish a short list of what to test and how it should work....
-Carl
At 8/31/00 09:28 AM +0200, you wrote:
[11/11] from: carlos::lorenz::net at: 31-Aug-2000 21:26
Just can't believe this is happening! Thank you Carl and others! Great job
is prebeta 5. Congratulations!
Carlos Lorenz
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Subject: [REBOL] View/VID prebeta 5 is worth trying
> A new REBOL/View is posted in http://www.rebol.com/xpers/xpers.html. This
one is quite interesting because it contains many changes to VID. It also
has a test panel built-in to help you find tests without a hassle. In
addition, you can add your own test site to the panel... so the rest of us
can try out your scripts! Links are added on a first come first serve
basis, so reserve your spot in history by adding your site link soon.
> Click on the What's Up icon for more info about the release.
>
> CONVERTING SCRIPTS:
> ------------------
>
> Most VID scripts can be converted by knowing that:
>
> 1) STYLIZE has changed. It now takes a line similar to a LAYOUT.
Examples:
> stylesheet: stylize [
> red-btn: button red
<<quoted lines omitted: 3>>
> ]
> To quickly convert, you can use STYLIZ (no E)... which is the old
function. But, note that it will be vanishing soon.
> 2) Use face/data field for accessing the data of a VID face. For
instance, to print the choice made on a rotary button, you would write:
> r: rotary "breakfast" "lunch" "dinner" [print first r/data]
> This is true with all styles.
<<quoted lines omitted: 3>>
> r: rotary "go" "stop" "yield" green red yellow
> This is good stuff. Makes VID now the most powerful user interface
language ever created. Tell a friend.
> 3) There are many new styles. For instance, TXT, H1, H2, H3, etc. will
give you document face styles (black text without shadows).
>
> CREATING A TEST SITE
> --------------------
>
> I want you to create your own test site, even if you only have one VID
script. REBOL needs you. It's important. And, it's fun too.
> Here's how to create a site:
> 1) Create a file called index.r in the format:
<<quoted lines omitted: 6>>
> 2) Upload the file and any scripts/images to your website.
> 3) Publish your test site by using the "Add a Site" icon in View (found on
the REBOL site page in the sites directory). Give the URL for your index.r
file. You can provide an icon for your site as well.
> 4) Verify that it works, then tell us about it here on the list.
>
> 5) Write a lot of scripts and add them to your site.
>
> OTHER DOCS
> ----------
>
> I have a much better VID document nearly ready. Watch for it to appear in
View under the REBOL site. There are also entirely new CORE chapters to be
published very soon.
>
> FEEDBACK
> --------
>
> Feedback has never been easier. Click on the feedback icon.
>
> GO FOR IT
> ---------
>
> I need your help... REBOL needs your help. Now is the time to go for it.
Start working on REBOL view scripts today. Publish them toay on your site
or on someone else's site. Tell your friends about REBOL. Tell your press
contacts about REBOL. Get them helping out.
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