Script Writing With The Visual Interface Dialect

VID Scripting

The minimal REBOL header, REBOL [ ] is illustrated here. load-gui is needed only in the development or alpha versions of R3. The basic format of a Visual Interface Dialect script is shown below.

   rebol [ ]
   load-gui
   view [ 
      button "Time" do [print now/time]
      button "Quit" do [quit]
   ]

The view function displays the window containing a panel of two button faces. The button faces are specified. No panel is specified however, since every window of the GUI display is itself a panel.

There are 2 do reactors, each with a block to be evaluated.

The next page Layout Control describes how faces may be organized.

Script Writing With The VID Dialect Pages

• Script Writing With The VID Dialect
• VID Test Examples
• DOC Rich Text Markup
• Layout Control
• Designing Layouts With Panels And Groups
• Edit Styles
• New Styles
• Move Windows
• Debug GUI Code

Chapters

• R3 Introduction
• Community
• Getting Started With R3
• The Graphical User Interface
• Script Writing With The VID Dialect
• Script Writing With The Draw Dialect
• The Graphic Object