Rebol Programming/Internal utilities
Internal utilities
[edit | edit source]The Viewtop
[edit | edit source]The Viewtop is Rebol/View's builtin graphical desktop. It's mainly used to access programs available from various Rebol sites around the world. It can also be used to access files locally on your own PC.
Using the Viewtop
[edit | edit source]On first startup, the Viewtop will come up automatically.
You can change the default behavior using the User Preferences menu item.
To start the Viewtop from the console type:
>> desktop
or
>> viewtop
Facts about the Viewtop
[edit | edit source]The Viewtop is written as a range of mezzanine functions using the VID graphical user interface system and is essentially open source.
The text editor
[edit | edit source]The text editor is handy for editing smaller scripts that are too large to write in the console. It's not very complex so it's not suited for larger projects. It can be launched from the console by writing:
>> editor none
Or
>> editor ""
Or if you give a filename:
>> editor %script.r
You can then run scripts in the editor by pressing Ctrl-E.
You can also use it to view large data objects that are hard to study in the console:
>> editor system/view