Thanks for your reply, Jim. Much appreciated.
On 1/20/2000 at 3:37 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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What was said was that there would be two levels of access to VIEW
functionality. One would be a high level dialect for quickly and easily
generating composited graphical interfaces. Second would be full
disclosure of the underlying function API and data objects that are
used to directly manipulate the interface. This allows for the creation
of other dialects targetted for specific domains.
}
On 1/2/2000 at 5:02 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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There is a bonus for those of you who like technical challenges.
REBOL/View will include its GUI dialect source code. That gives
you the power to enhance the GUI as well as create your own custom GUI
dialect, say for interactive TV, kiosks, games, or whatever.
}
So, is the "GUI dialect source code" REBOL script or C source?
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Documentation will be included with the beta.
}
Is the documentation ready for pre-ase yet? Might help to take the edge
off.
Is Friday a lock?
-Ted.
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At 05:54 AM 1/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>But the source for REBOL/View will be released, hopefully with the
>beta, which we are now told will be released Friday.
>
>Personally, I think it is very important that RT meet the Friday
>deadline. It's a beta that will not be closed-source, so if there are
>blemishes, we can offer fixes, and RT can release again. Hopefully,
>there will also be a VIEW mailing list where interested parties can
>discuss this.
Hi Ted,
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I think someone has misconstrued what
Carl
actually said. The C source code to REBOL/view will NOT be released.
What
was said was that there would be two levels of access to VIEW
functionality. One would be a high level dialect for quickly and easily
generating composited graphical interfaces. Second would be full
disclosure
of the underlying function API and data objects that are used to
directly
manipulate the interface. This allows for the creation of other
dialects
targetted for specific domains.
At the moment the function API consists of just three natives ( show,
hide
and size-text ) and two mezzanine functions ( view and do-events ).
There
are a number of additional datatypes, PAIR such as 200x300 for
specifying
positions and dimensions, EVENT for receiving mouse, timer, keyboard
and
other events from an event port ( which is a new port type ), and an
IMAGE
type.
There are a number of data objects, but I don't have time to list them
now.
Documentation will be included with the beta. The real power is in the
data
objects.
Trust me, REBOL/view will be a unique experience!
- jim
