Hi Andy The English edition of Olivier Auverlot's French book is due out _sometime_ soon. It's very well written, and the only one which covers View/VID in print. http://www.rebolfrance.org/livre/livre.html His site RebolFrance has great stuff, much if it a by-product of articles written for the superb LOGIN magazine. http://www.rebolfrance.org http://www.rebolfrance.org/telechargement.html Unfortunately since there are few francophiles here, RebolFrance contributions tends to be overlooked. If I find/make time, I can help translate more goodies from there into English. This is partly what triggered the recent 'locale' thread following %Maoww.r, the French jabber client written in /View
In case you have not already, check: http://www.rebol.com/view/docs/../demos/easy-vid.r It's pretty easy to adapt that mechanism to your own use and the source is instructive. For example you can generalize it in 5 minutes so it can load a library of external files. These could be anywhere and shared.The rare magic of easy-vid is being able to interpret and visualize GUI code in the middle of a document. I can think of few other programming environments which offer such a wonderful intuitive transparent feature. 'Mathematica' is perhaps the golden example. I know that Kevin Altis and the PythonCard team are hard at work to enable this. They have their sights set on the needs of teaching programming in education. Also looking under the hood of %easy-draw.r and %easy-plot.r might be helpful to you.. <start YARDR: Yet-another-rebol-documentation-rant> For reasons that are still beyond me, REBOL is almost off the Internet~web radar. Google, which is otherwise fucking brilliant, seems to have a rebol blind-spot. I almost always have to work it hard 'manually' to track down rebol help with it. One reason is that a lot of code exists on rebsites which you access from /View desktop. There is no built-in search, indexing or sensible filtering mechanism in /View for rebsites. Neither is there any sensible gateway between rebsites and wiki/blogs as is happening EVERYWHERE else these days [compare PHP and FLashMX communities]... And of course the fabulous developments happening between Jabber and XML-RPC folks. [see my recent post http://www.escribe.com/internet/rebol/m24848.html ] Truly it's a crying shame as it is easy to do in Rebol and would show off many of its virtues to a larger public. RT have applied their brilliant talents, but very limited human resources and effort into /IOS. So /View is packed off to the orphanage/boardingschool in the meantime. Even RT's own site hides the link for this in a counter-intuitive place: http://www.rebol.com Then listed under "Company" click on "support" Half way down that page in the "Email List Archive" paragraph is a pale khaki link :-(( I think this community and REBOL deserve and NEED much better than E-Scribes default search tools. [it sucks imo]. So the mailing list being a small community does a heroic and humane job. Recently someone was also trying to process the list archives to extract and distill the accrued rebol knowledge. "black gold that is!" </end YARDR> Someone did put up a rebsite search script a while back. Search the mailing list archives to find it! Vanilla and/or Andrew Martin's wiki would make a fabulous vehicle for REBOL wisdom. /View implies that it should be used to document itself, which is why I like the mechanism in %easy-vid.r, but it needs to be tied in to a rebol-based wiki/blog so it can be shared and maintained as natural by product of this list. It is so easy to store REBOL code everywhere, in email, web pages, images.. Then just 'do it. /View is a ubiquitous desktop engine but not so much use unless is better integrated with other Internet systems [email web wiki jabber etc]. hth ./Jason ______________________________________________ Jason Cunliffe [NOMADICS: Director art+design] Tel/fax: +1 718 422-1078 [EMAIL PROTECTED] N 43:00.000' W 074:31.875' ALT:1144 ft 84 Henry Street #3C Brooklyn NY 11201 USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Finkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: [REBOL] Re: More view questions... > Thanks, I'll check the browser out and see if it helps my understanding > any. > > I've been downloading all the docs I can find from the rebol.com and > rebol forces. Do you know of any "must not be missed" documentation I > should look out for ? > > Thanks, > > > Andy > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf > Of Petr Krenzelok > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 1:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: More view questions... > > but if I understand you correctly, you are interested in all possible > facets for certain styles. There may be some old doc explaining it a > bit. Also - try to download %browse-system.r > (http://www.rebol.cheorg/script/browse-system.html ) script (or even > %ana-monitor.r?) and lurk a bit in system structure. It could help you a > > bit understand, how Rebol is organised ... > > -pekr- > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
