by pure circumstances... I just came across this page which gives some
other data about stuff related to VID/View.

its like a user accumulated page of tidbits, FAQ & Howto... useful for
beginners & intermediate level REBOLers

very cool when using search function of a browser you can discover
many little tricks which aren't easily covered in reference manuals...

-MAx

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch <[email protected]> w=
rote:
> Hi all,
>
> The real reference documentation to VID/View is here:
>
> http://www.rebol.com/docs/view-system.html
>
> I refer to it often, still.
>
> VID is just a dialect over view, and just about everything in view is
> used directly by the code in VID, so just knowing what view can do, is
> the best way to understand VID.
>
> The init and feel code of most styles is also a VERY good place to
> look to know how the various styles work. =A0things like the obscure
> face/colors & face/fonts block can be understood by looking at these.
>
> -MAx
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Carl Read <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, 11-September-2009 at 9:18:28 David den Haring wrote,
>>
>>> Another common response to this question is "Just study the source". Go=
od,
>>>comprehensive documentation is hard to write. You take it for granted un=
til
>>>it's not available.
>>
>> But when it's a commercial product, it's the job of those who produced i=
t to provide the docs for how to use it. It's also terribly inefficient to =
leave it to others to first figure out how it works and then explain it. Th=
ose who designed it already know how it works and why it works as it does, =
(hopefully), so they're the obvious ones to write the docs. They'll be able=
 to do it quicker and better than hundreds or thousands of users all studyi=
ng the source in the hope of figuring out how things work, most of who'll g=
ive up before getting much of a grasp of how it works.
>>
>> REBOL's supposed to be a better, quicker way to program. But how much ti=
me have its users lost because the View/VID docs were only half done X numb=
er of years back and then left at that stage?
>>
>> -- Carl Read.
>>
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