The Rebol Week

Announcements: Windows/COM Support Anton has released ' COMLib-anton ' (Benjamin Maggi's COMLib, reengineered). COMLib is an interface library that allows REBOL to talk to windows applications using COM. http://anton.wildit.net.au/rebol/os/windows/COMLib/ Callbacks have been removed to assist with implementation so that the behaviour is no longer asynchronous, and errors are now thrown as Rebol errors so that they can be trapped with normal Rebol error trapping. RebGUI Cyphre has been contracted to bring 'grid' support to RebGUI. Grid support will allow features like visibility of columns, scrolling, keyboard navigation, programmable navigation and other cool stuff. License will be BSD. NOTE: Improved systray support for windows will also be looked into. Timeframe : 3 weeks. Plugin After an initial announcement that the Plugin was being deferred for work on Rebol3, Carl agreed to "multiplex" work on the Plugin if developers can define a set of features ...

A quiet week this one ... Copy large files Carl has written a robust file copy utility that copes with files larger than available memory, and also calculates a checksum. Sintezar Rebolek has released his first public beta " The Digital Phase Distortion Synthesizer PM-101 ", The Digital Phase Distortion Synthesizer. Batteries not included but it does come with some instructions. Mailing List Quiet here also. A question was asked about how to read Gmail using plain core. Basically it can't be done without SSL which only comes Rebol/Command. If you've got a spare US$349, you can purchase it here. VID+ There were some discussions about the new VID for Rebol3 on AltME. Gabriele posted his RFC but unless you have access to Rebol3 world, you won't be able to comment! Hit the mailing list instead with your comments.

Mysql v.1.0.6 Dockimbel has finally decided, after 4 years of beta-testing, to release a version 1 of his long standing and useful mysql driver! " I've just run a big stress test with 40'000+ requests generating around 2Gb of traffic without any trouble ! No bad handshakes anymore if you're using v5+ tables and new passwords. " - Nenad Mailing List Tagging Project Not nearly as long in the making, but the library team has managed to tag each message after a 2 year effort " Every thread on the ML archive has been eyeballed by hand (and / or some semi-automated tools) and many threads have been tagged as to their "purpose" / semantic content " - Sunanda Rebol Plugin RT have announced a new beta release of REBOL/Plugin. This release includes several new features, including: Multiple instance support -- you can now have up to 5 instances within one IE process. Automatic updating -- after this release, backwards-compatible updates will come auto...

"well, after too many coffees and in between too many projects, here it is finally... my first visible contribution to 'The REBOL Week', this week's post and a new layout. I hope you like the new look and feel. It should be easier to read and a bit less cluttered in general." -Max REBOL v3 Unicode! It is now official, Rebol 3 will support Unicode natively, Yippee!!! There seems to be several options open, like how to treat unicode encoded rebol scripts. There is mention of support for at least Utf-16 and Utf-8 within a new unicode! datatype. RT also plans to support the usual series functions on unicode! strings. Don't miss your chance to voice your opinion here: http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/r3blog.r?view=0032 TO-HEX considerations for 64 bit integers Follow the topic here: http://www.rebol.net/cgi-bin/r3blog.r?view=0031 REBOL Browser Plugin News It seems RT is working on auto-updating the plugin and allowing more than one instance of the plugin to...

Looking like a quiet week. So I (this time Volker) collected everything :) Recent questions from the ml: How to get a directory-list? 'list-dir shows directory, but how to get the files in a block? simply "myDir: read %/c/temp/". As usual the questioner was pointed also to "use the source, luke". Still an unknown fact that rebol includes most of its source, as in "source list-dir" :) Alessandro tried a bit networking and asked how to send data from the server back to the client. "serverPort: open/lines tcp://:80" and so on. Gregg noted "WAIT returns the client port, so you can INSERT data into it.", from there on its easy :) " I'd like to know if Rebol can extract system informations ? like processor type and speed, ram size, mac adress, netbios names, hostnames, installed softwares ... and so on" the suggestions got toward using shell-commands. " Ms Windows can use "ipconfig" to get info about netwo...