Hello REBOLers,

A week ago or two I got nice ideas to reinitialize/redraw toggles in
an iterated list. Now I am stuck with a more complex structure, namely
the rotary.

I tried several initialization strategies, some of them even did not
let to "rotate" the rotary, i.e. it stayed the same.

The model below characterizes best my wishes: I store the state (the
'index? of 'data list) of the rotary in a global context list, where
the n-th cell will be set to 'index? In the scenario n is the row
count of the list, thus the 'count word of the 'supply function.

rebol[]
c: ["1" "2" "3" "4"]
l: ["first" "second" "third" "fourth"]
view layout [
        list 600x400 [
                across
                cnt: info "1"
                answer: rotary 240 [
                        poke a to-integer cnt/text index? answer/data
                ] data copy head l 
        ] supply [ 
                if count > length? l [face/show?: false exit]
                face/show?: true
                switch index [
                        1 [
                                face/text: pick c count 
                        ]
                        2 [
                                face/text: probe pick l a/:count
                        ]
                ]

        ] 
        do [a: [1 1 1 1]]
]


Unfortunately, the code - the intention, to set the
variables in the action block of the rotary and restore their state in
the supply function, is not working.
It seems that answer/data is common among ALL list rows - clicking on
any row will advance the common 'data list to the next slot, thus
answer/data is not individual(separate)  amongst the list rows.

All seems to spurious to me: is the supply function Janus-faced, i.e.
represents "read" _and_ "write" states: I thought, that the action
block of the actual widget in a list could be used to store its state,
and the supply routine could read this state and redraw the screen
element accordingly. I thought, the kind of reinitialization I used
int the above is useful, but it seems, it is not :-(


-- 
Best regards,
 Geza Lakner MD                          mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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