Re: [Factor-talk] PEGs

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
How do I use the keyboard keys to cycle back through old expressions? Currently I have to scroll to the old position and double-click to re-enter it. See

Re: [Factor-talk] PEGs

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Double
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote: How do I use the keyboard keys to cycle back through old expressions? Currently I have to scroll to the old position and double-click to re-enter it. http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui-listener.html Chris. --

Re: [Factor-talk] PEGs

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
I've noticed that the online EBNF help is not the same as that in the local Help Browser. It is the same, except for possible minor differences between Factor versions. If you go: peg.ebnf about

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
Incidentally, has it occurred to you that the authors of this program (not me!) are the most active members of this list? Also, that the author of a program might take some offence at being told that it is not polished

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Joe Groff
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote: I would still like to convince my sup that Factor is the way to go, and he'll want the latest and greatest Windows 7 GUI, eventually. So my next question is:  Has anyone undertaken the task of making a more up-to-date looking

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor keyboard shortcuts

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-ui-listener.html I see it now. Sorry I missed it. Shaping -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise

Re: [Factor-talk] PEGs

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
How do I use the keyboard keys to cycle back through old expressions? Currently I have to scroll to the old position and double-click to re-enter it.

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
I would still like to convince my sup that Factor is the way to go, and he'll want the latest and greatest Windows 7 GUI, eventually. So my next question is: Has anyone undertaken the task of making a more up-to-date looking set of widgets for Factor to use when creating GUI apps, even if

[Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Balazs Toth
Hi, I don't know if my previous mail reached the list or not, but let me ask you once again: - is there some accumulated, readable documentation of Factor somewhere? Or at least a cheat sheet about the various features of the language? The help system is really nice and sufficient as it is if

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Balazs Toth
Hi Chris, thanks for the answer. About the reliability of the features: I am curious how often do you stumble upon a feature that is not fully implemented, or not implemented in a cross-platform way. Bye, Balazs On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Chris Double wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Joe Groff
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Balazs Toth balazs...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, thanks for the answer. About the reliability of the features: I am curious how often do you stumble upon a feature that is not fully implemented, or not implemented in a cross-platform way. The stuff in

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Balazs Toth
Thank you! On Nov 11, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Joe Groff wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Balazs Toth balazs...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, thanks for the answer. About the reliability of the features: I am curious how often do you stumble upon a feature that is not fully implemented, or

[Factor-talk] tetris deploy-tool

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff C. Britton
My apologies, tetris deploy-tool does indeed work. I just did not wait long enough. I was using version .94, I miss typed an earlier post as version .04. I just downloaded factor-winnt-x86-32-2010-11-04-13-12.zip. This also works. However, I just noticed that the timestamp placed on

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Jim mack
1) A google search: site:http://docs.factorcode.org/ [ ] each often finds what I'm looking for in the details, rather than as a topic/word. 2) I generate the docs html locally using a word provided and use a grep tool. USE: help.html load-all generate-help will make it in

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Jim mack
Don't ignore the possibility of deploying as a local http server and having a local webapp. The server would be on the box, so it could do things locally, call COM, access clipboard. It's how I'm trying to do things, and works cross-platform, and is only limited by your html/css skills. On Thu,

Re: [Factor-talk] Problems with the Hello World and timer-serverexamples.

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff C. Britton
Thanks, both work. However, factor -run=time-server does not start the time-server. --Jeff From Slava, You need to do factor -run=hello-world This file is meant to be run as a vocabulary ,not a stand-alone script. For a stand-alone script hello world, try this: -- USE: io Hello

[Factor-talk] Help Browser slow

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff C. Britton
On Windows XP the Browser that is opened upon clicking Help in the listener is painfully slow. For example, I clicked on Vocabulary tags, and a couple of minutes went by before the tags appeared. I then clicked on collections and another couple of minutes went by before the collections

[Factor-talk] let, let* |

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff C. Britton
I am trying to use [let [let* And | in the listener and they are not recognized. -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell

Re: [Factor-talk] let, let* |

2010-11-11 Thread Doug Coleman
Try ``USE: locals'' first. Also, you are getting restarts, no? Find the option that looks good, highlight it, and hit enter. No word named “[let” found in current vocabulary search path - Abort - Use the locals vocabulary this one :-) - Defer word in current vocabulary Doug On

Re: [Factor-talk] let, let* |

2010-11-11 Thread William Schlieper
On 11/11/2010 10:10 PM, Jeff C. Britton wrote: I am trying to use [let [let* And | in the listener and they are not recognized. Did you make sure to USE: the correct library? -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell

Re: [Factor-talk] Help Browser slow

2010-11-11 Thread Jim mack
I first noticed this on xp once I had loaded a few libraries, usually furnace. Does the fresh exe seems reasonable? On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Jeff C. Britton j...@iteris.com wrote: On Windows XP the Browser that is opened upon clicking Help in the listener is painfully slow. For

Re: [Factor-talk] let, let* |

2010-11-11 Thread Slava Pestov
Hi Jeff, [let is defined in the locals vocabulary, and [let* is gone now. If you saw an old blog post talking about [let and [let*, chances are it uses the old syntax for [let too. Nowadays, we do this: :: foo ( -- z ) 5 : x 6 : y x y + ; Slava On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Jeff

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
Chris, I like your document, even though it is out of date. I think Balazs wants (as would I and others, I suspect) a nearly linear tutorial-like instruction, including: setting up the Git repository; checking out the clean branch; building Factor from that branch; running Factor; setting up

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Chris Double
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote Chris, I like your document, even though it is out of date. Just to be clear the handbook.pdf is Slava's document. I just generated it from the original source. I did produce this one which is a collection of my blog posts:

Re: [Factor-talk] Factor GUI

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
What is currently the best example/demo involving a locally running web-server serving HTML pages? I need to get more deeply into HTML 5 and CSS 3, anyway. Shaping From: Jim mack [mailto:j...@less2do.com] Sent: 2010-November-11, 13:29 To: factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Factor-talk] Docs and other topics

2010-11-11 Thread Shaping
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Shaping shap...@charter.net wrote Chris, I like your document, even though it is out of date. Just to be clear the handbook.pdf is Slava's document. Yes, sorry, I should have looked... I need to