REBServices
Yesterday I played a bit with REBservices.
(Grrr, I have to start new line because blogger's editor seems to be really buggy.). It's a cool concept for computer colaboration over network (or even locally). Altought it's a bit paint to make it work now (it's because of documentation, alpha stage and it's not built in right now), it's really great. And guess what happend. I've started %checker.r and it said RebServices documentation has been updated! Old quick start document is now called developer's doc and there's new quick start (really quick one :) Also, interesting (but little confusing ;) is Volker's RebServices corner.
It's great to have something like RebServices and Rebcode, they are great additions to REBOL. Can't wait for View 1.4.0.
30 November 2005
24 November 2005
Bitmap tracer
Yesterday Oldes released nice program, bitmap tracer. ( http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/vectorize.r ). It's written in rebcode and the algorythm is his own, not a implementation. He's using it for converting bitmap fonts to vector ones for usage in his REBOL/Flash dialect. And because it's Oldes, the usage is somehow tricky :)
do http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/vectorize.r
probe vectorize http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/img41.gif
If you try that code you can see result is not very REBOLish, a block of numbers. It's the coordinates in [x y x y ...] format, because rebcode cannot handle pair!. Erhm, pardon, rebcode cannot handle pair! ??
>> a: rebcode [x][pick y x 1 print y]
>> a 1x1
1
Seems it can :) Oldes has separate function for conversion of his row of numbers to pair! so usage seems like that:
probe ctx-vectorize/to-pairs vectorize http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/img41.gif
Yes, great. Unfortunately, the result is somehow scaled and shifted, so somebody should correct 'vectorize function to support pairs or correct 'to-pairs function not to shift and scale result.
But these are just minor problems, they're result of Oldes' coding style. The main thing is that it's now possible to natively convert bitmap images to vectors. And that's great!
Yesterday Oldes released nice program, bitmap tracer. ( http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/vectorize.r ). It's written in rebcode and the algorythm is his own, not a implementation. He's using it for converting bitmap fonts to vector ones for usage in his REBOL/Flash dialect. And because it's Oldes, the usage is somehow tricky :)
do http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/vectorize.r
probe vectorize http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/img41.gif
If you try that code you can see result is not very REBOLish, a block of numbers. It's the coordinates in [x y x y ...] format, because rebcode cannot handle pair!. Erhm, pardon, rebcode cannot handle pair! ??
>> a: rebcode [x][pick y x 1 print y]
>> a 1x1
1
Seems it can :) Oldes has separate function for conversion of his row of numbers to pair! so usage seems like that:
probe ctx-vectorize/to-pairs vectorize http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/projects/vectorize/latest/img41.gif
Yes, great. Unfortunately, the result is somehow scaled and shifted, so somebody should correct 'vectorize function to support pairs or correct 'to-pairs function not to shift and scale result.
But these are just minor problems, they're result of Oldes' coding style. The main thing is that it's now possible to natively convert bitmap images to vectors. And that's great!
23 November 2005
Checker works!
So my REBOL-pages checker seems to work. Today it says: Page http://www.rebol.net/rebservices/services-start.html has been changed on 23-Nov-2005/8:26:30 . Great! I checked that page and unfortunatly I haven't got an old copy so I cannot check directly what has been changed. So i looked at the page and it says: Updated: 9-Nov-2005 . Hm, my checker works bad? That's impossible! But wait, look at the bottom of the page! What does it say? Copyright 2005 REBOL Technologies - MakeDoc2 by REBOL - 23-Nov-2005 . Ha, so I was right! It has been changed! And that's the final proof that something is still happening at REBOL Technologies and that's great. :)
Hm, not very informative post :)
So my REBOL-pages checker seems to work. Today it says: Page http://www.rebol.net/rebservices/services-start.html has been changed on 23-Nov-2005/8:26:30 . Great! I checked that page and unfortunatly I haven't got an old copy so I cannot check directly what has been changed. So i looked at the page and it says: Updated: 9-Nov-2005 . Hm, my checker works bad? That's impossible! But wait, look at the bottom of the page! What does it say? Copyright 2005 REBOL Technologies - MakeDoc2 by REBOL - 23-Nov-2005 . Ha, so I was right! It has been changed! And that's the final proof that something is still happening at REBOL Technologies and that's great. :)
Hm, not very informative post :)
21 November 2005
Where is a rodmap?
Where is REBOL's roadmap? What can we expect in new version? And when is this version comming out? Is the best way for finding out new verison to check http://www.rebol.net/builds/031/ everyday? Does "doc Friday" mean that we can get new docs only on Fridays and not on every Friday? And same with Q&A Wednesdays?
And last, but not least, will REBOL someday hit 1.000.000 pages in Google?
PS: Hm, there are changes in docs, but they're nowhere mentioned. Going to write some checker.
Where is REBOL's roadmap? What can we expect in new version? And when is this version comming out? Is the best way for finding out new verison to check http://www.rebol.net/builds/031/ everyday? Does "doc Friday" mean that we can get new docs only on Fridays and not on every Friday? And same with Q&A Wednesdays?
And last, but not least, will REBOL someday hit 1.000.000 pages in Google?
PS: Hm, there are changes in docs, but they're nowhere mentioned. Going to write some checker.
19 November 2005
1.3.61
So new alpha version is out! And this time with some informations on what has been changed. Rebcode is now rebound so I can continue with my synthesizer. I'm reading that list now and it seems that lot of things has been changed in 1.3.60 so I have to dig deeper in it.
That's all for today, my girlfriend had a birthday party yesterday, Cyphre was there with Petra, so I'm really tired today.
So new alpha version is out! And this time with some informations on what has been changed. Rebcode is now rebound so I can continue with my synthesizer. I'm reading that list now and it seems that lot of things has been changed in 1.3.60 so I have to dig deeper in it.
That's all for today, my girlfriend had a birthday party yesterday, Cyphre was there with Petra, so I'm really tired today.
18 November 2005
This is my first REBOL blog ;) I'm not using Carl's bolgger right now, because I've had problems setting it up on my server, I'll try that later.
I'm running this blog just to keep some informations about REBOL together.
So today new version of REBOL (1.3.60) has been found on REBOL.NET. There's new SIGN opcode for rebcode and some internal DRAW changes to forthcomming support of Rich-Text. More? Don't know, rebservices are still not part of REBOL (probably still too alpha) and rebcode binding bug is there too. Didn't test sound, but this is still buggy too probably. But as I heard, sound is needed for AltMe 2.0, so we can expect some changes soon.
That's all for now, more later and hopefully on REBOL's own blogging system.
REBolek
I'm running this blog just to keep some informations about REBOL together.
So today new version of REBOL (1.3.60) has been found on REBOL.NET. There's new SIGN opcode for rebcode and some internal DRAW changes to forthcomming support of Rich-Text. More? Don't know, rebservices are still not part of REBOL (probably still too alpha) and rebcode binding bug is there too. Didn't test sound, but this is still buggy too probably. But as I heard, sound is needed for AltMe 2.0, so we can expect some changes soon.
That's all for now, more later and hopefully on REBOL's own blogging system.
REBolek
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