announce: slashdot-viewer
[1/15] from: nitsch-lists::netcologne::de at: 13-Jul-2002 21:42
Gregg, Chris and Volker proudly presents Slashdot-viewer :):)
Now we have various skins running!!
Whoever would like to host it, do! The more mirrors, the less death links :)
Comments welcome.
Is it ready for http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ? Or to good ? ;)
Temporary url:
* desktop/goto-button:
http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/index.r
* other tools:
http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/slashdot-viewer.r
===Credits:
: Gregg - initial sample, the simplest parser, lots of gui-samples.
: Chris - a very good looking sample, design-tips.
: Volker - gui-chooser, rebification (packer, version-checking), another
version of Chris gui (with list), an unused to complex parse-xml based
parser..
: Andrew - an dtd-based auto-generated parser which we try to understand ;)
(Volkers and Andrews more complex parsers are not currently included.)
announced by
-Volker
[2/15] from: carl:cybercraft at: 14-Jul-2002 10:49
On 14-Jul-02, Volker Nitsch wrote:
> Gregg, Chris and Volker proudly presents Slashdot-viewer :):)
> Now we have various skins running!!
> Whoever would like to host it, do! The more mirrors, the less death
> links :) Comments welcome.
> Is it ready for http://slashdot.org/code.shtml ? Or to good ? ;)
Not good enough, since I couldn't get it to do anything useful...
> Temporary url:
> * desktop/goto-button:
> http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/index.r
Entered it in the Goto URL, the icon appeared, I clicked on it, but
all I got was a: "Downloading http://slashdot.org/slashdot.xml
failed. Bye."
> * other tools:
> http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/slashdot-viewer.r
do
ne that URL from the Console and got the same error as above.
Should this work?
Of course, it may just be that it's overloaded I guess. Will try
again later...
> ===Credits:
> : Gregg - initial sample, the simplest parser, lots of gui-samples.
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> announced by
> -Volker
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Carl Read
[3/15] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 14-Jul-2002 1:48
Hi Carl,
On Sunday, July 14, 2002, 12:49:26 AM, you wrote:
CR> Not good enough, since I couldn't get it to do anything useful...
It worked here. Very cool, IMHO. :-)
Regards,
Gabriele.
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Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer
Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r
[4/15] from: cybarite:sympatico:ca at: 13-Jul-2002 18:26
Worked for me too
do http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/slashdot-viewer.r
[5/15] from: belymt:saunalahti:fi at: 14-Jul-2002 5:56
> > Temporary url:
> > * desktop/goto-button:
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>Of course, it may just be that it's overloaded I guess. Will try
>again later...
I had to try couple of times before I got it working. There is something
broken on Internet connections right now and it seems to be gotten much
worse on today...Web browsing is much slower than usually. I think this
might be related to KPNQwest shutdown?
Pity, that software itself looks nice.
Joanna
[6/15] from: dada:gecko:verizon at: 13-Jul-2002 23:16
And me.
Great work! Just what I've always envisioned the shared-work space of
the internet looking like: blurred screenshots that serve as a metaphor
for the information-access interface which in turns accesses the actual
information.
I totally dig it and am inspired. nice work.
sd
Cybarite wrote:
> Worked for me too
> do http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/slashdot-viewer.r
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>>Regards,
>> Gabriele.
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[7/15] from: dergaruk:ntlworld at: 14-Jul-2002 6:56
On 13 Jul 2002 at 21:42, Volker Nitsch wrote:
> Gregg, Chris and Volker proudly presents Slashdot-viewer :):)
>
..... snip .....
Great stuff, this type of app ought get more people interested in Rebol.
Regards
Derek
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http://dergaruk.active.ws/
[8/15] from: al:bri:xtra at: 14-Jul-2002 18:48
> : Andrew - an dtd-based auto-generated parser which we try to understand
;)
It's not complete. That's at least one good reason why it's hard to
understand! :)
Andrew Martin
Winning the Rebolution one line at a time...
ICQ: 26227169 http://valley.150m.com/
[9/15] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 14-Jul-2002 13:09
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]
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> Subject: [REBOL] announce: slashdot-viewer
> Gregg, Chris and Volker proudly presents Slashdot-viewer :):)
Hi, great! How about reusing the browser window for all the stories
clicked on? Robert
[10/15] from: greggirwin:mindspring at: 14-Jul-2002 8:55
Hi Robert,
<< How about reusing the browser window for all the stories clicked on? >>
I think the /only refinement on browse has not yet been made functional,
unless you know another way.
--Gregg
[11/15] from: anton:lexicon at: 19-Jul-2002 15:14
Almost for me. I will try again. I ran it in console of
REBOL/View 1.2.5.3.1 6-May-2002.
It downloaded a whole bunch of stuff, showing
a "dyna-gui" with "happy birthday code red" in it.
Then bombed out with this (you can see my file copy
function 'cp, is already defined):
>> do http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/slashdot-viewer.r
** Script Error: cp expected original argument of type: file
** Where: context
** Near: lay: cp [
backdrop slash-bg effect [emboss fit]
across
title "README" underline gold [
view/new readme-lay
]
pad 15x0
ti: title "select skin" underline gold
tx: text as-is right
{Developed by Volker, Gregg, and Chris.
Thanks to by Joanna and the mailing list for the idea,
and RT for IOS developer server where we collaborated.}
return
pad 20x0
]
foreach [file xlay]
>> ? cp
USAGE:
CP original clone /over /quiet
DESCRIPTION:
Copy from original to clone
CP is a function value.
ARGUMENTS:
original -- file or directory (Type: file)
clone -- file or directory (Type: file)
REFINEMENTS:
/over -- Allow overwriting. Asks for your permission.
/quiet -- Don't print
Anton.
[12/15] from: anton:lexicon at: 19-Jul-2002 17:12
I got it to work by jumping into the
slashdot-viewer/ directory that it creates
and doing the viewers. Nice stuff.
By the way, I would suggest to create the
directory in the public cache, not in the
current directory.
If some idiot like me runs the script from
the console, all your files end up in the
current directory, wherever that might be.
This example creates the directory in the public cache:
site: http://www.stuff.mynetcologne.de/reb/slashdot/
make-dir/deep public-dir: path-thru site/slashdot-viewer
; Now save & access your files in public-dir.
This has the advantage that the script is always certain where
the slash-viewer/ directory is.
Oh, of course, by default, 'cp is an alias of 'copy, in
rebol, so as I have redefined 'cp it broke the script.
I didn't see many people using 'cp until now.
Regards,
Anton.
[13/15] from: belymt:saunalahti:fi at: 19-Jul-2002 11:41
>
>Oh, of course, by default, 'cp is an alias of 'copy, in
>rebol, so as I have redefined 'cp it broke the script.
>I didn't see many people using 'cp until now.
IMHO it would be better if REBOL would buy default protect system defined
words from overwriting. I like the idea of being able to redefine language
but it's too easy for beginners to accidently redefine something vital and
cause havoc.
Is there a way to know if some word is used in definition other words?
something like Ref-count? Although this would not help in case code changes
on future versions of REBOL but it could help on sorting out this kind of
problems?
Joanna
[14/15] from: carl:cybercraft at: 19-Jul-2002 21:13
Finally able to connect to Slashdot, (been unable to for days), so I'm
now able to see what the slashdot-viewer does.
It's very nice, though it needs a prefs page where we can
choose/switch-between which skin to use. Also nice on such a prefs
page would be a toggle to choose whether it opens /. topics in a new
browser window or the current one. Yeah, I know, I could add it. (:
But I'm pushed for time at the moment.)
Does it have keyboard support in the skins that scroll? I couldn't
find any. (Of course, this question may be redundant with regards to
View 3.0, he said hopefully...)
On the Read-Me page, clicking on the HTML button didn't work. The URL
it returned was a mixture of an HTTP URL and my REBOL file-path. ie,
something like this...
http://drive:rebol/slashdot-viewer/readme.html
Still, a very nice little tool.
--
Carl Read
[15/15] from: nitsch-lists:netcologne at: 19-Jul-2002 11:42
Am Freitag, 19. Juli 2002 09:12 schrieb Anton Rolls:
> I got it to work by jumping into the
> slashdot-viewer/ directory that it creates
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> This has the advantage that the script is always certain where
> the slash-viewer/ directory is.
Hmm, usually a script cd's to its own directory, and our script
makes a sub-directory there.
so the unpack-directory should be where the packed script is.
have you hit an exception?
> Oh, of course, by default, 'cp is an alias of 'copy, in
> rebol, so as I have redefined 'cp it broke the script.
> I didn't see many people using 'cp until now.
>
its 2 chars shorter. i always forgot to copy blocks, until a changed
to 'cp for this initialize-stuff. also i like the difference between
'copy as "make a copy" and 'cp as "make something new".
maybe i should really switch to [new: :copy] if people use 'cp
like you?
> Regards,
>
> Anton.
>
-Volker
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