In the process of making this site, various potentially-useful bits of
code came into being and are listed here for anyone to have.
These are not samples or demos. Samples or demos can be found elsewhere.
These are modules, or maybe complete small applications, that can be used
as they are. Depending on your computer, you should be able to do
something like left-click to view and right-click to download.
Anything marked as a complete application could have a copy of the REBOL
interpreter enclosed, since that is how I like to package things.
In the area of things that are so obvious nobody mentions them,
if you are new to REBOL there might be a key piece of information
you are missing in order to make sense of what follows.
That bit of informations is, what exactly do you DO with the following
items. An item marked as a REBOL script is a program you can put
on your computer and, if you have REBOL installed, you can just
double-click the program and it will run. An item marked as an
application is a multi-file application that includes the REBOL
interpreter and that will have operating instructions in it
somewhere, usually in a folder called "documentation."
An item marked as a REBOL module is source code that you will include
in a program of your own by coding "do (module-name)" somewhere near
the beginning of your program. Then, later in your program, you
can invoke functions that are provided in the module.
| File name |
Type |
Description |
| adventureworksdb.r |
REBOL module |
This is two functions to "open" and "close" the Adventureworks demo database
in sort of a "COBOL" fashion. It is the code presented in the document on
using REBOL with the Adventureworks database.
|
| AlphaNumericCheck.r |
REBOL module |
These a functions that are so simple (thanks to the power of parsing)
that one could just as well code them in-line, but some people like
the readability of an appropriately-named function like IS-NUMERIC.
|
| AlphaOnly.r |
REBOL module |
This is a simple function to remove from a text string all characters besides
letters. It is a bit rough around the edges since it was written for one
specific situation.
|
| BHLlauncher.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that goes with BLHdisplayer.r and provides a way to include
simple help windows in a REBOL program. This module is included in the
calling program and provides a function to lauch the displayer program to
show the help window.
|
CaptureConsole.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function from the REBOL 2 blog that sets various things to cause
the REBOL console output to go to a text file.
|
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| cgi.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that you may insert into a cgi program.
It provides a function to get the input fields from an html form
and to create words so that you may refer to them.
It also has a few helper functions that are useful for creating
and displaying html output.
|
| ChangeSuffix.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function that could just as well be coded in-line if only one
could remember from time to time how to do it. It takes a file name and
a file name suffix, and puts the new suffix on the given file name.
The function was created for a photo-organizing project for the purpose
of creating file names for thumbnail images.
|
| click.r |
REBOL module |
This is a short function that does nothing but send a clicking sound
to the speakers. The purpose of this function is that it can be
called at any time one wants to provide some sound feedback.
There is a pre-loaded sound, but it could be replaced with any other
sound. The pre-loaded sound was stolen from the Windows sounds.
A move of questionable legality, but as noted, you could replace it
with something of your own, if you have the ability to make little
"wav" files.
|
| ClipboardLines.r |
REBOL module |
This is a short function that reads the clipboard, which usually comes in as a
string, and divides it up into lines based on CR-LF and returns the alleged
lines in a block.
|
| COBreserved.r |
REBOL module |
This is a short function that takes a word or a string and checks it against
a list of COBOL reserved words, returning a true or false value to indicate
whether or not the specified word is a reserved word.
A rather specialized use.
|
| COBword.r |
REBOL module |
This is a short function that takes a string and checks it for validity
as a COBOL data name, that is, starting with a letter and continaing
letters, numbers, and hyphens. A rather specialized use.
|
| code39.r |
REBOL module |
This is a modification of a script of the same name from the rebol.org
library. It creates a png image of a code 39 barcode, and includes the
text of the barcode under the actual barcode. The original is here:
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=code39.r
|
| commafy.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module in the "spreadsheets are evil" category.
It has procedures to remove commas from a "numb.r.html" that has been
formatted with commas as the thousands separator, and also to put
commas into an integer that must have them for presentation.
|
| CompareTwoOrderedLists.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module from a larger project of comparing the contents of two
folders of files. it is a function that compares two ordered lists and reports
what is in one and not the other, in both directions.
|
| CountUniqueItems.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specialized function from a specialized application that counts the numbers
of unique strings in a block.
|
| csvbrowser.r |
REBOL module |
A package of functions, based on csvfile.r, that can be used in a program
to view the contents of any CSV file that has a single row of column
headings as the first row. This package includes a viewing window with
navigation buttons. This was created as part of a viewing program,
but it does most of the work and the main viewing program was just a
shell to call this module.
|
| csvfile.r |
REBOL module |
A function for turning a csv file into a data file with names for
each of the delimited entities on a line. This module shows the
usefulness of the REBOL "to-word" function that can create words
at run time, and the "set" function that can set the values of
those newly-created words.
|
| csvformat.r |
REBOL module |
A function for turning a block of data blocks into a CSV file based on
another block that defines the items in the data block. Originally
created for helping turn the results of an SQL query into a CSV file.
Also, it is a rather simple function since it was written to solve
a specific problem and then not developed beyond that.
|
| csvfromblock.r |
REBOL module |
A function for creating a CSV file out of a rather specific data structure,
namely, a block conaining column headings and a block of sub-blocks where each
sub-block becomes one line of the CSV file.
|
| csvobj.r |
REBOL module |
A function for turning a csv file into a data file with names for
each of the delimited entities on a line. This module is basically
the same as csvfile.r, except that the csv file and its procedures area
put into an object. That way, you can code "MYCSVFILE1: make CSV []"
and have several csv files open in your program at the same time,
without any data name collisions.
|
| csvtoblock.r |
REBOL module |
A function for reading a CSV file an converting it into two blocks, namely,
a block containing the column headings and a block of sub-blocks where each
sub-block is the data fields from one line of the CSV file.
|
| DateDissection.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function that takes a date value and returns the year, month, and day
as integers and as strings. Useful for making date stamps.
|
| DateTimeToFunctions.r |
REBOL module |
Functions, inspired by the cookbook, for formatting dates and times into forms
suitable for date and time stamps. That is, yyyymmdd and hhmmss with two digits
for day and month and all the parts of the time.
|
| depath.r |
REBOL module |
A simple function to chop off a given number of leading nodes of a direcory path name.
|
| DirList.r |
REBOL module |
A simple function to get all the directory names in the current directory.
|
| DivideOnDelimiter.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module for a very specific situation where a string must be
divided into two strings at a particular delimiting character.
|
| DivideOnFirstDigit.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module for a very specific situation where a string must be
divided into two strings at the point where the first digit appears.
The original use was dividing a string that contained a name followed
by an address.
|
| DKDB.r |
REBOL module |
Duplicate Key Data Block provides a data structure for collecting all
attributes for some key value that might appear more than once in an
input data file. It was written for a specific situation, but in a
general-enough manner that it could have other uses.
|
| DummyBlock.r |
REBOL module |
A function for to create block of a specified number of empty strings.
Yes, I really did have a use for that.
|
| DupCheck.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specialized function written for a specific purpose of finding
duplicate values in a mass of data. Using this functino requires you to
format your data in a particular way, and then handles for you the
head-hurting logic of duplicate checking and control breaks.
Nothing too fancy.
|
| DupCounts.r |
REBOL module |
Given a block of items, usually some sort of identifier
value, of string type, produce a result block that is a lookup
table of each unique item followed by a count of the number of
times it appeared in the original block.
|
| FieldCheck.r |
REBOL module |
A function for checking the characteristics of a string and returning a
block of indicators, including whether or not it is numeric, alphanumeric,
alphabetic, number of leading, trailing, and embedded spaces, etc.
It was written for validating operator input on a data entry window.
|
| FileKeywordIndex.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that makes an index out of file names and keywords supplied to it.
It is part of a larger program.
|
| FilesOfType.r |
REBOL module |
I got tired of having to refresh my memory on how to do this little
trick from a program by Carl, so I put it into a generalized function
to return a list of all files in the current directory of one or more
specified types, base on the file name suffix.
|
| FilesOfTypeInDir.r |
REBOL module |
This is a modification of FilesOfType that gets a list of files in
a specified folder.
|
| FilesOfTypeInList.r |
REBOL module |
This is a modificaton of FIlesOfType that gets all the file names of
a given type in a block of file names.
|
| FFF.r |
REBOL module |
An object for working with fixed-format text files, of the kind one
might find in a COBOL program.
|
| fftfile.r |
REBOL module |
This is another module for working with a fixed-format text file.
It is less general than FFF above because it was written for a more
specific application.
|
| GenerateThumbnail.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function to take the name of a JPEG file and create a PNG thumbnail
image of that file. It uses ideas from the cookbook and Nick.
|
| genpng-gauge.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that was created for producing a "fuel gauge" kind of
graphic to show the amount of free space on a server disk. It is very
simple but does work and could be modified to produce something different
from the 200x100 gauge (with needle) that it does produce.
|
| genpng-piechart.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that was created for producing a "pie chart" graphic from a block
of numbers. There will be a slice of the pie for each number with a size
representing the percent that the number is of the sum of all the numbers.
This is not totally general-purpose. It makes a chart of a certain size, but the
size values are clustered in one spot for easy customization.
|
| GetNextID.r |
REBOL module |
Hardly worth the effort of a separate module, this function shows a way to
store an ID number, and get the next ID number, in a situation where you are
assigning consecutive identification numbers to things.
|
| glb.r |
REBOL module |
This is a "global services module" of handy functions, mentioned
in the section on REBOL for COBOL programmers.
|
| GLO.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specific module for a specific problem. It provides a function that
takes a block of blocks of data, as might come from and SQL query, and generates
a grid layout containing that data. It is based on an idea from Nick Antonaccio
for generating VID code, at http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html.
|
| GLOC.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specific module for a specific problem. It provides a function that
takes a block of blocks of data, as might come from and SQL query, and generates
a grid layout containing that data. It is based on an idea from Nick Antonaccio
for generating VID code, at http://business-programming.com/business_programming.html.
It is an enhancement of the module called GLO.r that takes a function name as an
argument and generates VID code that calls that function when an item from the
generated grid is clicked.
|
| gridlayout.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specific module for a specific problem that never existed.
It (theoretically) takes the result of an SQL query and makes a grid layout
containing the columns returned from the query.
|
| GroupListOfResultset.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specific module for a specific problem. Transform a query result
that is a grouping of one item within another, to another structure that
is the major group item followed by a block of its associated items.
|
| HelpString.r |
REBOL module |
This is the source of the REBOL "help" function modified to return a string
instead of printing on the console. This version was created for self-training
as much as its actual use. A more REBOL-like version can be found here:
http://reb4.me/x/help.r
|
| HexByte.r |
REBOL module |
Create a two-byte representation of the hex value of one byte.
|
| HexPrint.r |
REBOL module |
Create a two-line display of hex values of one line of text.
|
| HotThumbnails.r |
REBOL module |
Generate layout code that shows thumbnails of specified pictures, with the thumbnails
calling a specified function when clicked.
|
| htmlrep.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of procedures that can be used to make a simple tabular
html report. It is used for basic listings. Nothing fancy.
|
| HtmlTableOfResultSet.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function that will wrap up the result of an SQL query into
an html table that then can be included in a larger html file.
|
| imgtag.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function that does the very simple job of taking the name
of a file, reading the file, converting the image to base64, and
returning an html img tag with the image embedded.
|
| IVX.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of functions to create and use a simple inverted index
of data values and keys to where those values might be located.
|
| Labels5160.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of functions to make an html page of labels formatted in
such a way that if printed with the browser they will fall onto the page in
the format appropriate for printing on Avery 5160 labels. This works will
with one page of labels (30 label) and sort of well with two pages, and
has not been tested on three or more. There are work-arounds if you wanted
to use this for great gobs of labels, but it would be a bit fussy.
|
| LastToFirst.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module to more the last word in a multi-word
string to the front of the string. It was created to rearrange names in
a database into last-name-first order.
|
| logobj.r |
REBOL module |
This is another run at a log file, inspired by the cookbook. It is packaged
into an object. Each line starts with a date and time stamp in a fixed format
so that the lines would display nicely in a fixed-width font.
|
| LogReduce.r |
REBOL module |
This is function to cut a given number of lines off the front of a specified
text file. The original purpose was to cut down the log file of a program
that ran on a regular schedule and made log entries when it ran.
|
| log-error-object.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that can be used to write the contents of an error object to a
text file for logging. The original purpose was to understand the "try" and
"disarm" functions, resulting in this module that can be used for simple
error logging.
|
| LookupList.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used in a project of checking lists of
identification numbers to see if any of those numbers appear in other lists.
This module is an object to transform a text file of strings into a lookup
table.
|
| LookupListOfResultset.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used to create a lookup table directly from the
results of an SQL query, and store it in a file. This version assumes that each row of
the SQL query is just one item. It is used to answer the question, is a given string
in this list or not.
|
| LookupFileOfResultset.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used to create a lookup table directly from the
results of an SQL query, and store it in a file. It allows for multi-part keys.
|
| LookupTableOfResultset.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used to create a lookup table directly from the
results of an SQL query.
|
| MakeDirectoryList.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function to locate, recursively, all subfolders of given folder,
and put them into a block that can be used for other processing.
table.
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| MBLT.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used in a project of locating properties
with multipe detached garages. It provides an object that is a lookup table
where the attributes of the key is a block of blocks. In the original use,
each sub-block was a garage, and in each sub-block was the size and the
type of garage. The module is generalized for any lookup table of this type.
|
| MCDT.r |
REBOL module |
This is a "multi-category description table" that combines lookup tables
of code descriptions into one data structure.
|
| MTLT.r |
REBOL module |
This is a "multi-table lookup table" that creates one lookup table that
actually contains several tables.
|
| nacha.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of functions for taking apart a fixed-format file in the
NACHA format used for transferring money. The relevance of this example
is that it shows an approach for working with a fixed-format file.
|
| NameblockToHeadingblock.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized piece of a larger effort to reduce the drudgery of SQL queries.
It generates a heading block from the results of a query of column names, and this
heading block is fed into other REBOL modules in the larger effort.
|
| NameblockToSelectlist.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized piece of a larger effort to reduce the drudgery of SQL queries.
It generates a part of a select statement from the results of a query of column names.
|
| NoDoubleSpaces.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used for cleaning up a line of text by
removing all cases of two or more consecutive blanks. The original use was in
improving the appearance of text lines in a log file.
|
| ObscureLine.r |
REBOL module |
This is a demo of a function that takes a line of text and makes it harder
to read, but not impossible, by scrambling the individual words.
|
| ODBC.r |
REBOL module |
This is a generalized module for accessing datbases by ODBC if the
connection strings are stored in a Python-compatible file that
REBOL can parse.
|
| ParseInputNames.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used for extracting the "name" attributes from an
html form. Its original use was for code generation.
|
| ParseOnComma.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specialized module used for parsing a line of a CSV file on the
comma, but accounting for the possibility that there might be fields that contain
commas and are enclosed in quotes.
|
| pclprt.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of functions that you could modify and use for printing
in a very specific situation, where you have a network of Hewlitt-Packard
printers connected to a print server, AND your reports are fixed-format
text reports like in the days of mainframe computers.
|
| phonedit.r |
REBOL module |
This is a single simple function to take a U.S-style telephone number and put it
into the format of "(999) 999-9999" even if it already is in that format.
This is very simple, and was written quickly for a data-conversion project.
|
| prtcsv.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that helps in "printing" a basic columnar report to a
csv file. It solves the REBOL "printing" problem by not solving it,
and letting someone else solve it. A csv file can be imported into
many popular spreadsheet programs, and then can be printed using the
printing capability of the spreadsheet program. Believe it or not,
many people like to use spreadsheets for paper reporting.
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| prthtm.r |
REBOL module |
This is a another solution to REBOL printing that puts report lines into
an html file with markup that causes a page break before every h1 line.
|
| prttxt.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that helps in "printing" a basic columnar report to a
plain text file. It provides procedures to format lines of text and
write them to a text file, with the idea that the operator then would
use the printing functions of a text editor to put the data on paper.
This module does not provide any page skipping or headings on any
pages besides the first. It is basic. Very basic.
|
| quickhelp.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module to pop up a window of documentation from text hard-coded
into a program.
|
| ReadDir.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function from the internet that locates all files and
directories, recursively, in a specified directory.
|
| receiptobj.r |
REBOL module |
This is a REBOL object that encapsulates code for a basic printed receipt
for money for something; very generic. The idea came from the prolific
Nick A.
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| RecursiveFolderFileLists.r |
REBOL module |
Create a block of all the file names in a specified
directory, recursively into sub-directories. Do a similar
thing for all folders in a specified directory.
|
| RemoveRangeAddress.r |
REBOL module |
This is a specialized function for a special situation where we want to
clean up some range addresses to remove the range part.
|
| SafeFileName.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function to check a file name (or any string, really) to make sure
it contains only letters, numbers, and a few special characters. It was created
as part of a program the did things with file names, but had problems when
operators would supply messy file names.
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| scrltxtv.r |
REBOL module |
After the umteenth time of trying to remember how to use a scroller to
scroll some text, I went back to Cookbook article 29 and encapsulated the
scrolling operation into a module that can be called for any text that
needs scrolling. It doesn't matter what size the the text and scroller
are because they can be passed to the scrolling function.
|
| SearchBlocks.r |
REBOL module |
Search a block of sub-blocks, looking for a given value in a given position
in each sub-block. Return the sub-block we find, or return none if we don't
find anything.
|
| ShowScriptDoc.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function for showing documentation about a REBOL script IF that
documentation is written BEFORE the REBOL header in a very specific format.
Obviously, this function was written for a very specific situation. It would
be useful only if you want to enter that specfic situation, but it also does
show the concepts of generating new windows at "run time" so to speak, and
of using the scroller.
|
| SortAddresses.r |
REBOL module |
Sort a block of addresses on the street name first and then the house number.
|
| SpaceZeroFill.r |
REBOL module |
Two functions, pad a string on the right with spaces, pad a string on the
left with zeros. These functions exist elsewhere but I needed them pulled
out in a module by themselves.
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| Spellings.r |
REBOL module |
This function reads a list of words and puts them into a block, with a little
twist. The list of words has embedded headers and the resulting blocks are
named according to those headers. This is a little example of how a REBOL
script can generate its own code and execute it.
|
| split-address.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that divides a common building address into its leading
house number plus whatever is left, which one would assume to be a street
name. It is a very simple procedure written for a specific situation,
but a situation the probably is fairly common outside the area where it
was written.
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| SQL-date-23.r |
REBOL module |
This is function to convert a date to yyyy-mm-dd format so it can be used in the
"where" condition of an SQL query. It was created mainly because I kept forgetting
how to do that conversion, so I encapsulated it into a function.
|
| SqlAsColheads.r |
REBOL module |
This is an alternate and subsequent version of SqlAScolumns that uses a case-sensitive
comparison for the AS keyword to allow that keyword to be used before the FROM
keyword. This gives the procedure more capability at the cost of requiring a little
more discipline when writing the SQL.
|
| SqlAScolumns.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that extract column names from an SQL script if the
select statement is coded with the AS feature on all column names.
It was used as part of a project to automate the running of SQL scripts.
|
| SQLcomments.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that extracts a carefully-structured comment block from
the top of an SQL script. It was used as part of a project to automate
the running of SQL scripts.
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| SQLserverTableColumns.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of two functions for getting table names an column names from an
SQL Server database.
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| SQL-inblock-strings.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module that was created as an aid to generating SQL scripts. It is a function
that will take a block of values that are assumed to be strings, and create a list
of them with appropriate delimiters, so that the result could be pasted into the
"in" clause of an SQL "where" condition.
|
| stack.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function that provides a simple stack data structure, somthing
that is very easy with the REBOL block series.
|
| StatusDisplay.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module of short functions that can be called to show a status display
while a program is running. It is like the progress bar you often see during
software installation. Does the job, but not fancy.
|
| StrShuffle.r |
REBOL module |
This is a little toy function that takes a word, scrambles up the middle
characters while leaving the first and last characters as they are, and
returns the scrambled word.
|
| tabfromblock.r |
REBOL module |
This is a modificatino of csvfromblock.r that just replaces the comma delimiter
with a tab.
|
| tface.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function harvested from the internet, turned into a plug-in
module, and heavily annotated. It provides a window for viewing
text, with a scroller. It is a simple operation, but does require
some fussing, so the existence of this module is a learning aid.
The original source for this was article 29 in the REBOL cookbook.
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| TimeDissection.r |
REBOL module |
This is a function takes a time value and returns the hour, minutes, and
seconds as both integers and strings. Useful for making timestamps.
|
| txtobj.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module for reading a text file. It has functions for moving
around in a text file because it was written for a situation of extracting
useful data out of a barely-structured text file.
|
| ValidateFilename.r |
REBOL module |
This is a module for checking a string to make it into a file ID by
removing certain special characters and making sure it has a suffix.
|
| WaitForFile.r |
REBOL module |
This is a small function that pulls together the few commands that one would
do in a situation where a script must wait for a file to come into existence.
This could be a scenario where a REBOL script has to call some feature of
some other language and wait for a result, which would be indicated by the
presence of a new file.
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| whois-ps.r |
REBOL module |
This is a very specific function to run the "whois" operation using
powershell and a whois.exe executable. It was written when the
built-in whois feature was not producing desired results.
It requires Windows, Powershell, and a separate whois.exe program
in the execution path.
|
| File name |
Type |
Description |
| AddPrefix.r |
REBOL script |
This utility program reads lines of text from the clipboard, gets a
prefix supplied by the operator, and attaches that prefix to the beginning
of each line from the clipboard. It puts the modified lines back on the
clipboard.
|
| AddPREtag.r |
REBOL script |
This utility program reads requests a directory name, find all the rebol scripts
in that directory, and adds one line to the front of each, containing the html
"pre" tag. This was written and used after moving the site to a new server
where scripts wre not being displayed with line breaks.
|
| AlignComments.r |
REBOL script |
This is a very simple program reads from the clipboard what is assumed to be
REBOL code, and for any line with an in-line comment starting with a semicolon,
it aligns all those in-line comments so they look nice.
|
| batgen.r |
REBOL script |
This is a very simple program that generates a DOS batch file to run the
REBOL interpreter, with switches set to run a selected REBOL script.
The operation could be done almost as quickly by hand, but, if one would
have to make a large number of such files, this bit of help could speed
things along. You will have to modify one line of code for your own
specific installation.
|
| BETTE.r |
REBOL script |
This is a time-recording program extracted out of a larger program.
It was the part of the program used for recording billable time on several
concurrent projects, up to two projects just because it was easier to
program and having a huge number of concurrent projects seemed to be less
effective than paying attention to one and getting it done.
|
| BreakTimer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that starts a timer, sounds an alarm when the timer
reaches zero, then resets the timer and runs again. It was written to
remind a person to get out of his chair every half hour to avoid
"sitting disease." The program needs a wav file called bushorn.wav.
There is one at the end of this index page.
|
| BHLdisplayer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that goes with the module BLHlauncher.r. The launcher module
launches this program, and passes to it, through a text file, the name of a
text file of help topics plus an initial topic to display. This program then
loads that help file and displays the initial topic. This approach is used
so that the help window can be independent of the calling program.
|
| CardCatalogBrowser.r |
REBOL script |
This program assembles the "index cards" created by the FileAndFolderIndexCard program
and makes a window of keywords and file/folder names for searching. I uses two other
modules from this area, FilesOfType.r an FileKeywordIndex.r.
|
| CiscoConfig.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program to make an html display of the last 20 lines of a
configuration change log from a Cisco router. Allegedly this log file is
somewhat common among Cisco devices so this program might be useful to
others who have that brand of router.
|
| COBxref.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for making a primitive cross reference of a COBOL source
code file. It is far from perfect because it was written for a specific
situation not expected to happen again. It uses other modules in the
free-stuff area, glb.r, DupCheck.r, COBreserved.r, and COBword.r.
|
| CodeWalkthrough.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for assisiting with video code walkthroughs. It displays segments
of marked-up REBOL code beside text descriptions of what the code does. The script
has a compressed of its own documentation to demonstrate how it works.
This is a very simple program written on short notice to produce some documentation.
|
| colorblocks.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple REBOL coding debugging aid. It redisplays a REBOL script
in a web page with a color change every time an opening bracket is found.
The result is that blocks of code are colored, with a change of color in
every sub-block. This color change can be used to spot a missing bracket,
which is a common error and hard to find in a large script.
|
| CommandChannel.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple chat room based on an ftp site that is common to all
participants. The core idea was borrowed from Nick Antonaccio, well-known
to all. It is his ftp chat idea with a GUI front end. It shows the concepts
of a program generating its own VID code, and of a scrolling pane inside a
box.
|
| ComputerMemory.r |
REBOL script |
This is a companion program to GatherComputerInfo.ps1. It process files out of
that powershell script and makes an html report of the memory and other miscellaneous
data. This program was presented as part of a simplified computer inventory
system, based on REBOL scripts.
|
| ConditionalGangpunch.r |
REBOL script |
The term "gangpunch" refers to the days of computer punch-cards when one migh want
to punch the same characters into the same spot on every card. This program
provides a GUI interface for performing that operation on a text file. It is a
variety of find-and-replace, but it finds something in one place and replaces in
a second place.
|
| csvhtmldemo.r |
REBOL script |
This is a demo of how to use the above csvobj.r module and the following
htmlrep.r module. It combines the two modules to produce a quick listing of
the contents of any csv file provided it follows the convention of having
the first line contain column headings (words with no embedded spaces).
Run the program, it asks for a file name, provide a valid csv file, and
up should pop a listing in a web browser. The data in your file must be
clean. These modules don't fix things, they just take what they get
and assume it's good.
|
| csvview.r |
REBOL script |
This is basically a demo shell program to show the use of the csvbrowser.r
module. It brings in the csvbrowser.r module with the "do" function and
then uses the functions to show the contents of a requested file.
|
| Deblank.r |
REBOL script |
This is program reads lines from the clipboard and reassembles each line
so that there is only one blank between each word. It also preserves any
leading blanks that are present for purposes of indentation.
|
| Delimit.r |
REBOL script |
This is a Q&D program to put delimiters on a string that is on the clipboard.
I was created quickly for manual copying and pasting from a horrible
spreadsheet. The workflow was to copy a column from one row, put delimiters
around it, and paste it elsewhere.
|
| DeployedMonitors.r |
REBOL script |
This is a companion program to GatherComputerInfo.ps1. It process files out of
that powershell script and makes an html report of the monitors listed in those
files. This program was presented as part of a simplified computer inventory
system, based on REBOL scripts.
|
| DespaceFilenames.r |
REBOL script |
This is a "quick and dirty" program that requests a directory and
then examines all file names in that directory and replaces various
spaces and special characters, resulting in names without spaces and
special characters. For each file name that needs "fixing," the
program renames that file with the "fixed" name. The original use
was a project of mass-saving emails with the subject line as the
file name, and the subject lines were full of spaces and special
characters.
|
| dumpall.r |
REBOL script |
Anyone who has used Burroughs computers will recognize the name.
This is a utility program that can make a hex listing of a file.
It is very simple because by default it pops the listing onto the
screen, and then has buttons to write to a text file where it can
be examined better with a text editor.
|
| EDNAmailer.r |
REBOL script |
This is part of a two-part EDNA utility program for delayed email.
It was created for an environment where, for various reasons, it
was helpful to be able to queue up an email message and have it
actually sent at a later time.
|
| EDNAqueuer.r |
REBOL script |
This is part of a two-part EDNA utility program for delayed email.
It was created for an environment where, for various reasons, it
was helpful to be able to queue up an email message and have it
actually sent at a later time.
|
| encryptor.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that will encrypt or decrypt data on the clipboard.
The original use was as a quick-and-dirty way to make a secure email.
One would type the email message, then cut (not copy) it to the clipboard,
encrypt it right back onto the clipboard, and then paste it into the
email message. A similar operation is performed on the receiving end.
This is not an email client.
|
| ExcelColumnComments.r |
REBOL script |
This is an extremely specialized utility program that reads lines of REBOL code from
the clipboard and adds in in-line comment to each, with the comment being a spreadsheet
column name (A, B, C...AA, AB, AC...).
|
| explore-draw-arc.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to draw an arc, and provided
sliders to change the values of the arc as an aid to understanding how to
use the "arc" command of the "draw" dialect.
|
| explore-draw-box.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to draw a box, and provides
sliders to change the values of the box as an aid to understanding how to
use the "box" command of the "draw" dialect.
|
| explore-draw-circle.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to draw a circle, and provides
sliders to change the values of the circle as an aid to understanding how to
use the "circle" command of the "draw" dialect.
|
| explore-draw-line.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to draw a line, and provides
sliders to change the values of the line as an aid to understanding how to
use the "line" command of the "draw" dialect.
|
| explore-draw-multiline.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to draw a line with a middle point
between the start and the end, to show that the "line" command can have more than
two points.
|
| explore-draw-polygon.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to draw a three-point polygon,
to show the concept.
|
| explore-draw-text.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that uses the "draw" dialect to display text.
|
| FileAndFolderIndexCard.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for indexing personal files. It makes an "index card" for a selected
file or folder and stores it in a central location.
|
| findrep.r |
REBOL script |
This is a very quick and dirty program for replacing all occurrences of text
a all files in a specified directory. It was written originally for mass-changes
to source code files. The find-replace text strings are hard-coded into the
script, this the "quick and dirty" classification.
|
| ffteditor.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for providing controlled editing of a text file that is
a data file of fixed-format records. It provides structure for those who
are uncomfortable using a text editor. A description of the file must be
provided in a specification file as explained in the program's comments.
|
| FlashScriptViewer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for helping to clean up lots of old SQL scripts and either
annotating them and saving them or else deleting them.
|
| FolderIndexer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for making a keyword index out of the indexing information
entered through the FolderLabeler program.
|
| FolderLabeler.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for putting indexing information into folders.
It creates a special subfolder that contains files of assorted
indexing information.
|
| FolderLister.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program for making a web page out of the data entered through
the FolderLabeler program.
|
| FolderMonitor.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program designed to be run once a day to check a hard-coded folder
to see if any new files have been placed there since the previous day, or
if any files have been deleted since the previous day.
|
| FtpFileDownload.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple program for getting a single file from a hard-coded folder
on a hard-coded ftp site. It was written for a very specific situation,
thus the hard-coding. This version has been sanitized and you will have to
code in your own ftp site name.
|
| FtpFileUpload.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple program for putting a single selected file to a hard-coded folder
on a hard-coded ftp site. It was written for a very specific situation,
thus the hard-coding. This version has been sanitized and you will have to
code in your own ftp site name.
|
| GatherPdfFiles.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple program for a specific job. It requests source and destination
folders, and, in the source folder, locates all the PDF files in that folder and
any sub-folders, and copies all the files it finds to the destination folder.
It was written as a helper program for a project of scanning a bunch of
documents and packaging them up to email to interested persons.
|
| GenCsvLookup.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple program for generating a REBOL-loadable lookup table from a CSV
file. It is not an automatic generation; you pick which CSV file fields is to be
the table key, and which other fields are to be attributes. This program uses
the csvfile.r module.
|
| GetFilename.r |
REBOL script |
This is a simple program for requesting a file and putting its name on the
clipboard. It was written for a documentation effort that required much
hand-typing of file names that would later be used as links and therefore
had to be accurate.
|
| GetFilenameString.r |
REBOL script |
Request a directory, make a list of all files
in the directory, and display the list. When a file is
picked, copy the file name as a string to the clipboard.
This was written as a documentation aid when lots of file
names had to be written into documentation.
|
| GetHTMLColor.r |
REBOL script |
This is a Q&D (Quick And Dirty) program to allow a person to select a color
visually, using the request-color function, and then obtain the html value
for producing that color on a web page. It puts the color string on the
clipboard because the expected use of this program would be the hand-coding
of an html page.
|
| HtmlFiguresPage.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that reads an image file and creates the base64 encoding
in a form suitable for embedding the image in a web page. It generates the
appropriate html so the result is a page of images with captions. The original
use was for making a page of figures for another page of documentation.
|
| Indenter.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny utility that indents the contents of the clipboar by four spaces
on the front of each line. This is something that might seem so trivial
that one might wonder, "why?" But if you do a lot of coding, you
will know why.
|
| IndexCardCreate.r |
REBOL script |
A little utility program to create a text file that can be used as an "index card"
to refer to another file.
|
| LineCount.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny utility that displays a window with the number of lines in a specified
file. This was used as a visual aid for some video documentation.
|
| LORA.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny utility that displays login credentials, either from hard-coded
data or a text file, and lets you copy user ID's and passwords to the
clipboard for pasting into web pages. Not usable as-is, but will have
to be modified for your personal use.
|
| Makedoc2Customizer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a little package of makedoc2.r from rebol.org, that will allow you to embed
your own logo into the html code produced by makedoc2. Run the program and it will
show a window for picking the logo file, and then will generate a program called
makedoc2-custom.r
|
| MassRename.r |
REBOL script |
This is a specialize program for adding a prefix to every file name in a
specified folder. It was used for a special cleanup operation.
|
| MassReplacer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a specialize program for a particular find-replace scenario.
It allows a person to code find-replace strings in a text file so that they
can be applied repeatedly to several text files without having to re-type
them, which would be an error-prone operation.
|
| MARIA.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny clerical "assistant" for writing a letter and putting the
letter text into an html page suitable for printing without headers.
The name came from the song, "Take a letter, Maria."
|
| MARTA.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny clerical "assistant" for sending a selected file to a
selected recipient as an attachment. This is the same feature offered
better by many email clients. The only advantages of this program are
that some text is customizable and the number of mouse actions is reduced
to the minimum. You would have to modify this program with your own
list of email recipients and your own email message text, and you also
could modify it to select files out of a particular folder, to reduce
the inteface actions to the absolute minimum.
|
| NORA.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny clerical "assistant" for recording little notes that used to be
scattered around a desk. Some such notes are reminders to do things,
but others are things that one might want to remember much later, and this
latter class of notes are what go into this program.
|
| PictureRenamer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a quick-and-dirty modification of Carl's picture viewer to provide
a button for renaming a picture file. It was created for a specific project
of organizing a bunch of pictures taken of pages of a book.
|
| pmotd.r |
REBOL script |
Personal Message Of The Day. This is a program that can be set up to
run at login time to show the contents of a text file. It is like the
unix motd (message of the day) program. It is very basic, written to
fill a specific personal need.
|
| QuickSlideshow.r |
REBOL script |
A quick-and-dirty script written for a holiday party, to show a few vacation
pictures in a continuously-running slideshow.
|
| RecordWindowsEvent.r |
REBOL script |
A very simple utility program to assist people not familiar with certain Windows
administrative tasks. It runs the Event Viewer and provides a smoother way to
capture the text of an event and mail it to a support staff person.
|
| RemoveDuplicateLines.r |
REBOL script |
Very small script for a very specific purpose of reading through a text
file and removing the duplicate lines in the situation where one or
more consecutive lines are exactly the same.
|
| ROSA.r |
REBOL script |
A tiny clerical "assistant" for building a list of all REBOL scripts
in a hard-coded folder, putting the script names in a selection list
in a window, and then running one scripts when its name is picked
from the list. This was created initially for a situation of running
several hundred little REBOL programs for checking several hundred
data fields in a database conversion.
|
| RunNAdemos.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that will build a menu of the short REBOL scripts
by Nick Antonaccio linked at the top of his rebolforum.com web site.
You then can run the demos by selecting the title from a text list.
This is not significantly faster than just copying and pasting them
from the source, but it was an instructive project.
|
| ScriptCompressor.r |
REBOL script |
This is a quick and dirty program to compress a text file (usually a REBOL script)
and put the displayable form of the compressed file on the clipboard for pasting
into a program.
|
| ScriptIndexer.r |
REBOL script |
This is a quick and dirty program to make an html indexing page of all
REBOL scripts in a specified folder. It was written to make a primitive
indexing page of a backup copy of the rebol.org script library which is
available on this site.
|
| ScriptPackager.r |
REBOL script |
This is a quick and dirty program to compress a selected number of REBOL
scripts, and put the compressed versions into another REBOL script, so that
when that other REBOL script is run it will unpack and write the decompressed
scripts back to disk. In other words, it is a way to package up a bunch of
scripts for sending to some other location. This idea was done by Carl on
rebol.org in a script called build-pack.r.
|
| SELENA.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that was written for a quick demo. It is a name and
address list, like the Rebodex program from the rebo.org library, but
written in a more plodding manner. It also includes the ability to have
a picture for a person on the list.
|
| SELMAedit.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that will decrypt and read an encrypted text file,
and put the text into a text area where it can be modified.
Then, the file can be saved back to the same name, and it never is
put on disk in an unencrypted form. The file name is hard-coded
because of the original use of this program.
|
| SELMAencrypt.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that will encrypt a file, named by a name hard-coded
into the program. This encrypted file then can be read by the companion
editing program. The name is hard-coded because the original use of this
program was to maintain a master password list.
|
| SHARON-get.r |
REBOL script |
This is half of a pair of helper programs to transfer a single file between
a known ftp site and a local computer. It is like a very primitive dropbox.
It works if you want to share a few files between (for example) home and
work, and if your work flow is very simple.
You will have to modify it to hard-code your own ftp site name and credentials.
|
| SHARON-put.r |
REBOL script |
This is half of a pair of helper programs to transfer a single file between
a known ftp site and a local computer. It is like a very primitive dropbox.
It works if you want to share a few files between (for example) home and
work, and if your work flow is very simple.
You will have to modify it to hard-code your own ftp site name and credentials.
|
| ShortTermMemory.r |
REBOL script |
This is personal helper program in a personal attempt to "go paperless." It provides
a text file for making notes. You could do this just as easily with a text editor,
but this program assists in producing text lines in a format that can be rendered
into an html page with makedoc.
|
| ShowSystemObject.r |
REBOL script |
This is sort of like a reference card of items from the "system object" that I have
found useful. It is not a reference of all items in the system object. To find
out what is in the system object, use a REBOL command prompt and type "help system."
There also is a system object browser on the rebol.org web site, called prob.r.
|
| SLAM.r |
REBOL script |
Subject Line Action Markup. This is an idea that never took off because it is
not a significant time saver. I would be used as the first step toward writing
an emai and assist in marking up the subject line with some indicators as to
what is expected of the recipient.
|
| SQLindexer.r |
REBOL script |
This program makes a primitive html indexing pages of all sql files in a
selected folder. The source of the indexing information is a structured comment
block at the front of the sql file, as explained in the program comments.
|
| SqlInList.r |
REBOL script |
This extremely specialized program reads lines of text from the clipboard,
each line being one string, and creates a T-SQL "in" list that can be
pasted into and SQL query.
|
| SQLtblxref.r |
REBOL script |
This program uses an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database and produces
a cross reference of the tables in the database and the columns in the tables,
with links from table to column and column to table in an html page.
|
| SQLtoCSVtoXLS.r |
REBOL script |
This program uses an ODBC connection to an SQL Server database and sends to that
connection a selected SQL script. It then puts the output of the script into
a temporary csv file and uses powershell to put the csv file into a spreadsheet.
This was created as an idea for a primitive report library.
|
| StyleCodeMakedoc.r |
REBOL script |
This program was used to extract the style code out of VID and put it into a format
so that it could be pasted into a makedoc-style document.
|
| TextScramble.r |
REBOL script |
This is a little toy project to take some strings of text and scramble each
word so that the first and last characters remain the same but the middle
ones are scrambled randomly. This could be used as a cheap email
encryptor, for example.
|
| TimeStudyRecorder.r |
REBOL script |
This is a quick and dirty project to record daily activity for the purpose of a time study.
|
| TimeStudyReporter.r |
REBOL script |
This is a quick and dirty project to record daily activity for the purpose of a time study.
|
| TraceViewer.r |
REBOL script |
This program was written for a situation where programs created trace files
of their activities in a particular folder, and it was necessary to get a
list of all those trace files and view one file selected from the list.
|
| TRISHA.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that will use a text file of VID code to make a
slide-show-like presentation. This is not as good as a dedicated
presentation program from any popular office software suite.
It was written more with the motivation of CAN it be done rather
than SHOULD it be done. By the way, Carl has a fancy presention
program based on text in the Makedoc format. Not sure where to
find it.
|
| Uncomment.r |
REBOL script |
This extremely specialized utility program reads lines of REBOL code from
the clipboard, and if any line has an in-line comment (indicated by a
semicolon), it cuts off that comment.
|
| WANDA.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program that will was created for the single purpose of
quickly browsing through a folder of "wav" sound files to see what
they sounded like.
|
| Winscp.r |
REBOL script |
This is a program originally written to run at a specific site, and then
was sanitized so it could be presented as a way to run a secure FTP program
called WinSCP. WinSCP is a scriptable secure ftp client, and when combined
with the REBOL "call" function can provide a way to send files using secure
ftp (which I believe REBOL can't do).
|
| YearCalendar.r |
REBOL script |
This is a modification of a program from Nick Antonaccio's page of personal
programming, at
personal-programming.com. The original program displayed a full-year
calendar on the REBOL console. This version captures the displays into
strings and then puts those strings into a VID window so that the whole
year shows on the one window and needs no scrolling.
|
| YouAreHere.r |
REBOL script |
This program displays a little marker that I can drag around the screen
to keep track of where I was if I am reading some documentation and trying
to do something else while following the documentation.
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