Hi Carl,
> To see the available colors, enter...
>
> help tuple!
Thanks. I never would have thought to look there. See, there is
a lot of documentation available, but knowing where and how to
find it is often a problem.
> As to REBOL's fonts, there's only three "standard" ones -
font-fixed, font-sans-serif and font-serif.
I sort of guessed at that from some of the examples that I'd
seen. Thanks for confirming.
> There's possibly good news on the docs' front though - see...
Yes, I did see that, and I'm elated that RT has made the
commitment. That makes it much easier to be patient. I'm sure
the wait will be worth it.
Best regards,
Bernie Schneider
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being
overwhelmed
by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try
it, you will
be lonely often and sometimes frightened. But no price is too
high to pay
for the privilege of owning yourself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche --
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Read" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 6:49 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: [docs] What's hard? (was: REBOL Tutorials)
>
> On Saturday, 16-July-2005 at 15:59:42 Bernie Schneider wrote,
>
> >For instance, View is supposed to
> >have over 40 standard colors available. What are they? By
> >digging through the examples, I've discovered about a dozen
of
> >them. Where can I find out about the rest? And what are the
> >standard View fonts, and how do I specify them? Are they in
some
> >document that I just haven't stumbled upon yet?
>
> To see the available colors, enter...
>
> help tuple!
>
> at the console. It shows all the tuple words, but there's
only a few of then that aren't colors.
>
> As to REBOL's fonts, there's only three "standard" ones -
font-fixed, font-sans-serif and font-serif. And they're all
just a string containing a font name. And I'm sure there's a
way to change them, I've just forgotten how. :-) To change them
within a layout is easy enough though...
>
> view layout [text "hello" font [name: "wingdings"]]
>
> None of which is a criticism of your main point - the lack of
good View/VID reference data and general documentation. It's
one of the main causes for the lack of stickyness with REBOL,
I'm sure. Another is View's not on OSX yet, (not good for a
cross-platform language), and the occasional things you come
across which are not part of the language yet and hence can
stump what you're doing. Two examples I've had recently is no
saving of JPEGs, (I thought I'd read this would be included with
View 1.3, but it's not there), and you can't change file-modes
via FTP with REBOL.
>
> There's possibly good news on the docs' front though - see...
>
> http://www.rebol.net/article/0185.html
>
> -- Carl Read.
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