VID extension kit

What is the VID extension kit?
Rebol has VID as a "dialect" to create a window, with text, buttons and much more with few lines of code, example:

view layout [text "Hello REBOL World!"]


Many users improved the style of VID windows, one of the most famus is RebGUI (http://www.dobeash.com/rebgui.html), you can download Rebgui from here: http://www.dobeash.com/download.html

VID extension kit is another improvement of VID, you can download it from:

• http://hmkdesign.dk/data/projects/vid-ext-kit/downloads/nightly/vid-ext-kit.r
• http://www.maxvessi.net/rebsite/vid-ext-kit.r

In order to use it the first command is:

>> do http://www.maxvessi.net/rebsite/vid-ext-kit.r
== none


then try this:

>> main: make-window [
across
h3 "Main Window" return
bar return
label "Enter Name"
field return
ok-cancel
]
>> view main


One of the main features is that all windows are resizable!!! WOW! and:

• A collection of new styles for VID to make it more complete.
• Heavy modifications to existing styles to make them more flexible.
• A small set of rules defined to restrict, but also lift the capability of the user interface to a new level. This helps to:

• Simplify the creation, validation and data gathering of forms.
• Provide tabbed keyboard navigation.
• Provide a consistent skin across the entire UI using a single skin file.
• Provide full window resizing and face alignment extensions in the dialect.
• Give a user interface meaning and structure as opposed to being a bunch of faces, you have to address absolutely.

• A collection of functions for managing faces, such as:

• Very easy face traversal, moving back and forth, up and down in the face tree. Faces become a bit more aware of their surroundings, although not fully.
• Face traversal based on criteria, useful for finding a specific face by style, flag or any other method.
• Individual keyboard navigation per style, through the key-face* accessor.
• Disabling and enabling faces and panels, also with customizable disable/enable accessors per style.
• Validating INPUT faces and panels.

• A few new styles that are data-only, i.e. invisible styles that provide new operations to the dialect at parse time and connect faces. This is generally used for field validation for now.
• A collection of more sensible requesters that take full advantage of the new window layout, resizing and styles.

The main guide to the VID extension KIT is the following: href="http://hmkdesign.dk/project.rsp?id=vid-ext-kit&page=docs§ion=user&name=vid-extension-kit-user-manual.txt

Then you can find more guides on: http://hmkdesign.dk/project.rsp?id=vid-ext-kit&page=docs



Unfortunately the guides don't cover all topics, so to understand all the features of the best and quick way is to download the following file: href="https://github.com/henrikmk/VID-Extension-Kit/zipball/master; go in the tests directory and try all the tests.