CHANGES TO REBOL/VIEW FOR BETA 4.1
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    Version: 0.9.9
    Date:    31-May-2000
    REBOL Technologies
    Subject to Change


VID CHANGES

    Styles are now local and a style sheet is returned from stylize
    function.  This style sheet can be provided to a layout with
    the STYLES word.  This was needed to prevent use of global
    styles in applications, which would become a problem as REBOL
    grows. In addition, a style can be defined within the layout
    itself using the STYLE word. For example:

      some-styles: stylize [thin-button button [size: 100x10]]

      view layout [styles some-styles thin-button "Hello" [unview/all]]

    The primary attributes of a style can be modified from the
    specification of the style in the layout. For instance, you
    can simply specify a FONT or PARA. This change required the
    deletion of the PARA word as a STYLE, reverting to the
    previous TEXT word.  LABEL is now what was TEXT in Beta 4. For
    example: 

      view layout [
          size 200x200
          backdrop effect [gradient 1x0 255.255.255 0.0.0]
          text "Some text" para [origin: 10x50] font [color: 0.0.0]
      ]

    In layouts, the ACROSS and BELOW words will cause a return
    when changing from one to the other.  This is to help produce
    better layouts for most uses. 

    New VID style: ANIM, a generic animation style.  ANIM takes as
    additional specifier words: FRAMES and RATE. FRAMES is
    followed by a block of image files which are loaded and
    automatically animated in sequence.  RATE is followed by the
    desired the animation rate.  For example:

      view layout [ 
          anim frames [
              %pic.jpg %pic2.jpg %pic3.jpg
          ] rate 12
      ]

    LIST styles have been extended so that they accept these
    additional specifiers: DATA and MAP. DATA is followed by a
    nested block of data which is the data used to fill in the
    list.  If an item in the data block is a file, by default this
    file will be loaded into the image field of the corresponding
    list template style. Otherwise the data item goes into the
    respective list template style's text field.  To change this
    default behavior the specifier MAP can be provided.  Following
    MAP is a block of words which map the data to different face
    fields in the respective template styles.  For example:

      view layout [
          LIST 200x200 [
              across text text
          ] data [
              [%bay.jpg %bay.jpg]
              ["Text" 2]
          ] map [text image]
      ]

    Using ^C to copy-text from fields has been fixed.

    CLEAR-FIELDS function added - clears all text fields in the
    layout passed to the function as an argument. 

    Popup functions have been renamed to be more consistent with
    rest of REBOL/View naming: show-popup was open-popup,
    hide-popup was close-popup.

VIEW CHANGES

    Default view fonts names for AmigaOS have been changed to
    "CGTimes","CGTriumvirate", "LetterGothic". 

    These natives have been added to ease development of text editors
    in REBOL/view:

       CARET-TO-OFFSET - Converts text offset to xy pair

       OFFSET-TO-CARET - Converts xy pair to text offset

       TEXTINFO        - Provides information about a given line
            of text within a face.  TEXTINFO is used with the
            system/view/line-info object which contains the fields
            to be populated.  The information returned by TEXTINFO
            is useful for knowing where the cursor might go if a
            user pressed up to move up a line in a field
            containing many lines of wrapped text.

    View text handling major restructing.  The restructuring
    should result in great speed improvements in text rendering
    for all REBOL/view platforms.

VIEW INSTALLATION CHANGES

    A .rebol file is written during UNIX install. This file
    records the product-install-path and product version
    information.  The UNIX install now operates better on custom
    installs (no env var settings needed).

CORE LEVEL CHANGES

    MAKE-DIR has an additional refinement: /deep.  MAKE-DIR/deep
    will attempt to create the entire path structure given as an
    argument if that path does not exist.  If MAKE-DIR fails, all
    directories that were created up to the directory that caused
    the failure will be removed.  For example:

       MAKE-DIR/deep %some/long/path/name/

    LOAD/next %file.r now will not load in the header of a script.
    LOAD/next on a script will return a block containing the word
    REBOL followed by the rest of the script as a string advanced
    to right after the word REBOL (right before the header block).
    LOAD/next/header %file.r will load the header from a script.
    LOAD/next/header will search through a string until it finds
    the next header. 

    Some examples:

       LOAD/next %script.r 
       == [REBOL { [ Title: ... etc }]

       LOAD/next/header %script
       == [
           make object! [Title: "script" ...]
           { rest-of-script ... } ]
       ]

       The rest of LOAD and her refinements remain the
       same in their behavior.

    SPLIT-PATH has been slightly modified to be more consistent in
    its results.

    You can now QUERY an object.  QUERY will return a block
    containing the fields that have been modified in an object
    since its creation or since it was last passed to
    QUERY/clear. QUERY will return none if there have not been any
    changed fields.  QUERY/clear will clear the modified state of
    all the fields in an object.  QUERY on an object is not
    recursive.  QUERY on a top level object will not report if
    something has changed in a sub-object.

NETWORKING CHANGES

    The recent reported network errors have been fixed. 

    Support for asynchronous TCP DNS lookups in Windows has been added.

    Sending data through a TCP connection now uses non-blocking
    i/o and thus can be interrupted by the escape key.