Red programming language This page was last updated: 26/04/2018
I've been looking at this language and I have to say that it IS the future. It puts all of the over bloated resource hungry programming environments to shame.
Red is a single exe, less than one meg in size and needs no dependencies. Red is definitely the way programming should be .... See my Red Apps.
Very similar and inspired by the excellent 'Rebol' scripting language, Red seems to deliver everything a developer needs. You write one script and it runs on/compiles to every platform .... An App developers dream. Though still in its early stages of development, I would say it is already a powerful programming tool. I love it.
 I must congratulate the brilliant 'Nenad Rakocevic' and his devoted team of developers. The amount of work and the dedication needed to get Red to where it is now is awesome. I must also convey the highest regard and respect to these programming guru's ....
Get the Red Language
Go to the Red site: http://www.red-lang.org/p/download.html and download the last stable build. The site has plenty of instructions and tips.
I use Windows, so will show how to get started in Windows .... So: 'Create a new folder' call it 'Redthings' .... now copy the red-063.exe to your 'Redthings' folder. there are a few ways to interpret and/or compile Red scripts .... but for now all you need is a text editor .... Any text editor will do, but lets make things easy .... If you go to: http://www.mikeparr.info/redlang.html and move down to 'Try Ride for Windows' then click on 'you can download it here ' .... then unzip into your 'Redthings' folder and away you go.
Alternatively you could try my simple 'Red' editor with built in interpret and compile options, No setup needed, just unzip and go .... Simple, No Nonsense .... Write, Interpret and Compile ..... Get it here:
Check out the examples below and See my Red 'Beginners Reference Guide' for more.
Also typing 'what' at the Red console prompt will give you a list of all Functions.
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You can cut and past these examples into your editor:
;example 1:
Red [needs: 'view]
view [ text "Hello World !"]
 ;example 2:
Red [ Title: "my program" needs: 'view]
view [ text "Its a great big world !" button "Quit" [quit] ]
 ;example 3:
Red [needs: 'view]
view [backdrop yellow t: text yellow "Hello World !"
button "Click" [t/text: "Red is good !" ]
]
 ;example 4:
Red [needs: 'view]
view [title "Save my notes"
t: text ""
a: area
button "Save" [save %notes.dat a/text t/text: "Saved"]
]
 ;example 5:
Red [needs: 'view]
view [title "Load my notes"
t: text ""
a: area
button "Load" [a/text: load %notes.dat t/text: "Load"]
]
 ;example 6:
Red [title: "Draw Lines" needs: 'view ]
view [
base black 500x300 draw[ pen yellow line 0x150 500x150
pen yellow line 250x0 250x300
pen red line 0x0 500x300
pen red line 0x300 500x0 ]
]
 ;example 7:
Red [ needs: 'view ]
view [title "field test"
t: text font-color purple ""
name: field
button "<-- Enter Something and Click" [t/text: name/text]
]
 ;example 8:
Red [title: "simple animation" needs: 'view]
view/no-wait [backdrop cyan size 460x450 t: text font-size 16 font-color red cyan "Hello"]
loop 100 [
t/offset: t/offset + 4x0 ;;;; move across
loop 1 [do-events/no-wait wait 0.03] ;;;; control the speed
t/offset: t/offset + 0x4 ;;;; move down
]
do-events
 ;example 9
;;;; See my 'red programmers Guide' for more help.
Red [ title: "Time" needs: 'view]
tim: append form "Time: " now/time ;;<-- set tim variable with time
;; stay on top and just show the close button ;;
flags: clear []
append flags 'modal
append flags 'popup ;;<-- I think popup only works for Windows
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;; open the main view ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
view/flags [ title "Red Time"
tim: text font-size 14 font-color red tim
rate 1 on-time [tim/text: append form "Time: " now/time]
]flags ;;<-- end main view
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
 You'll need Red ver: 0.6.1. or later to try this one.
download Red version 0.6.2 or later from here:
;example 10
Red [needs: 'view]
view [title "Drop-List"
t: text "Choose and click ->"
drop-list data ["You" "Me" "Us" "Them"]
[t/text: pick face/data face/selected]
] ;;<--end view
 ;example 11
Red [needs: 'view]
view [ backdrop brown
Title "Tab-Panel Example"
tab-panel 200x100 [
"Tab 1 " [at 30x30 text font-size 16 font-color red "Panel 1 ...."]
"Tab 2 " [at 30x30 text font-size 16 font-color blue "Panel 2 ...."]
"Tab 3 " [at 30x30 text font-size 16 font-color green "Panel 3 ...."]
]
]
 ;example 12
Red [Title: "Draw test" needs: 'view ]
;; circle
view [base 200x200 draw [pen yellow circle 100x100 40]]
;; square
view [base 200x200 draw [pen red box 60x60 140x140]]
;; triangle
view [base 200x200 draw [pen blue triangle 60x110 140x110 100x50]]
;; polygon
view [base 200x200 draw [pen cyan polygon 100x60 120x120 60x140]]
;; box with fill-pen
view [base 200x200 draw [fill-pen red box 60x60 140x140]]
;; circle with fill-pen
view [base 200x200 draw [fill-pen yellow circle 100x100 40]]
;; triangle with fill-pen
view [base 200x200 draw [fill-pen blue triangle 60x110 140x110 100x50]]
;; line with line-width set to 10
view [base 200x200 draw [line-width 10 pen blue line 40x100 150x120]]
     ;example 14
Red [ needs: 'view ]
mm: layout [title "MyMenus" a: area cyan 200x200]
mm/menu: [
"File" [ "Load" load --- "Save" sv --- "Save As" svas --- "Quit" qt ]
"Tools" [ "Text Size" txtsz ]
"Help" [ "Some Help" hlp ]
]
mm/actors: make object! [
on-menu: func [face [object!] event [event!]][
switch event/picked [load [print "load" a/text: "Load !!!!"]
sv [print "save" a/text: "Save !!!!"]
svas [print "save as" a/text: "Save As !!!!"]
qt [quit ]
txtsz [print "Tools tab !" a/text: "Tools tab !!!!"]
hlp [print "help tab !" a/text: "Help tab !!!!"]
] ] ]
view mm
 ;example 15
Red [needs: 'view
title: "fonts"
]
view [below
text italic "Hello"
text bold "Hello"
text font-color purple underline "Hello"
text yellow "Hello"
text font-color red "Hello"
text font-size 16 "Hello"
text font-name "comic sans ms" font-size 14 italic "Hello"
text italic bold font-color green font-size 16 "Hello"
]
 ;example 16
;;;; See my 'red programmers Guide' for more help.
Red [needs: 'view]
view [title "Text-List"
t: text "Click on a month ->"
text-list 100x100 data[
"January" "February" "March" "April"
"May" "June" "July" "August" "September"
"October" "November" "December"]
[t/text: pick face/data face/selected]
] ;;<--end view
 ;example 17
;; display a 'slider' and a 'progress' and use 'on-change' to update progress data.
Red [ needs: 'view]
view [title "slider, progress bar"
below
slider 100x20 data 10% on-change [p/data: face/data]
p: progress 100x20 10%
]
 ;example 18
Red [ needs: 'view]
t: "Hello World !"
view [size 280x100 title "to binary! / to string!"
below
g: text 250x50 t
across
button "Binary" [b: to binary! t g/data: b print b]
button "String" [b: to string! t g/text: b print b]
]
 ;example 19
Red [ needs: 'view]
;;;; get a keypress ;;;;
view/options [ t: text "hit 'space', 'x', or 'q' keys !"][
actors: object [on-key: func [key event] [
if event/key = #"x" [t/text: "'x' key pressed."]
if event/key = #"q" [t/text: "'q' key pressed."]
if event/key = #" " [t/text: "'space bar'pressed."]
] ] ]
 ;example 20
;;;; a bit more in this one, See my 'red programmers Guide' for more help.
Red [needs: 'view]
view [
style txt: text
group-box "My Group Box" 1 [origin 40x40
txt "Name" name: field 200
txt "Address1" addrs1: field 200
txt "Address2" addrs2: field 200
button "save" [save %mygroupbox.txt reduce [name/text addrs1/text addrs2/text ] t/text: "*Saved*"]
button "load" [attempt [set [nm ad1 ad2] load %mygroupbox.txt]
attempt [name/text: nm]
attempt [addrs1/text: ad1]
attempt [addrs2/text: ad2]
t/text: " *Loaded* "]
t: text font-size 16 font-color red " "
]
]
 ;example 21
Red [needs: 'view]
view [title "Panels" size 460x450
below
panel red [size 100x100 below text red "Panel one" check red txt: text red ""]
panel blue [size 100x100 below text blue "Panel two" radio blue]
panel yellow [size 100x100 below text yellow "Panel three" text yellow font-size 18 "Hello"]
panel brown [size 100x100 below text brown "Panel four"
button "do something" [txt/text: "Did Something"]]
at 200x20 panel cyan [size 200x400 below text cyan "Panel five" field area
t: text "Some text here." drop-down progress 40% slider
button "3 Second Quit" [t/text: "Quit in 3 secs ...." wait 3 quit]]
]
 ;example 22 ;;;; An image viewer - make sure you have some image files in the folder.
Red [needs: 'view]
folder: read %.
count: 0
foreach file folder [
foreach ext [".jpg" ".gif" ".png" ".bmp"] [
if find file ext [
i: load file
view/no-wait/options [title "Image Viewer" below
t: text font-size 12 "Click or Tap image>>"
image i [unview]
] [actors: object [on-close: func [face event][quit]]]
count: count + 1
t/text: append form "Click or Tap image> " count
do-events
]
]
]
if count = 0 [view [text "No image files found !"]]
 ;example 23
;;calculator
Red [needs: 'view]
;; stay on top and just show the close button ;;
flags: clear []
append flags 'modal
append flags 'popup
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
view/flags [backdrop purple
title "MyCalculator"
f: field brown 190x40 font-size 20 font-color white "" return
style b: button font-size 20 italic font-color red 40x40
[append f/text face/text]
b "1" b "2" b "3" b " + " return
b "4" b "5" b "6" b " - " return
b "7" b "8" b "9" b " * " return
b "0" b "." b " / " b "="
[attempt [ansr: form do f/text append clear f/text ansr]]
]flags
 ;example 24
;;Maximize/Resize a view
Red [needs: 'view]
view/flags [size 400x300 title "resize and max" text "Hello"] 'resize
 ;example 25 ;; needs 'red-062.exe' or later.
Red [needs: 'view]
view [below h1 "Hello" h2 "Hello" h3 "Hello" h4 "Hello" h5 "Hello"]
 ;example 26 ;; Sets focus to a face. If used on more than one face, only the last one will get focus. ;; in this example 'area' has focus. Red [needs: 'view] view [ area focus 200x200 f: field 80x25 ]  ;example 27 Red [Needs: 'View] view/flags [backdrop black size 400x80 f: h1 blue font-color red "Red Programming !!" on-down [quit] ;; click on text to quit rate 1 on-time [either f/text = "" [ f/text: "Red Programming !!"] [f/text: "" ] ] ] 'no-title  ;example 28 Red [needs: 'view] view [ base 500x500 draw [ pen off ;; <-- get rid of border fill-pen diamond 250x250 0 400 red green blue yellow purple cyan silver orange box 0x0 500x500 ] ]  ;example 29 Red [needs: 'view] view [ base 500x500 draw [ pen off ;; <-- get rid of border fill-pen radial 250x250 0 400 red green blue yellow purple cyan silver orange box 0x0 500x500 ] ]  ;example 30 ;;;;A usable tiny Red editor and Interpreter in less than 10 lines of script Red [needs: 'view author: Alan Brack] view/flags [title "Tiny Red Editor/Interpreter" below t: text "My Editor" 200x30 a: area 500x400 {Red [ ] view/flags [text "Hello World" ]'modal } text "" across button "Save" [if sf: request-file/save [unless suffix? sf [append sf %.red] write sf a/text t/text: "Saved." ] ] button "Load" [if Lf: request-file [a/text: read Lf t/text: "Loaded." ] ] button "Run" [ do a/text t/text: "Try some different code" ] button "Clear" [a/text: "" t/text: "Try some more Red code" ] ] 'modal  See my Red Apps for a far more advanced Red editor. ;example 31 ;; you'll need the latest automated build to use 'set-focus'. Red [needs: 'view] view [below a: area focus 100x100 f: field 80x25 button "field" [set-focus f f/color: orange a/color: white] button "area" [set-focus a a/color: orange f/color: white] ]  ;example 32 ;; six triangles. Red [needs: 'view] view [title "Six Triangles" base 400x300 blue draw [pen red fill-pen yellow triangle 266x150 190x120 140x138 fill-pen yellow triangle 214x220 140x138 145x174 fill-pen yellow triangle 259x186 215x180 214x220 fill-pen yellow triangle 259x186 266x150 215x180 fill-pen yellow triangle 214x220 215x180 140x138 fill-pen yellow triangle 266x150 140x138 215x180 ] ]  ;example 33 Red [needs: 'view title: "A Mouse Click Thing"] t: 0 random/seed now/time ;;;; seed the random generator v: View/no-wait/flags [ title "**** Click on it ****" backdrop red below h1 font-size 18 "Click Me !!" on-down [unview view/flags [h1 "Success !!"]'modal ] rate 2 on-time [x: random 1400 y: random 800 oset: as-pair x y v/offset: oset t: t + 1 if t > 20 [unview view/flags [h1 "Failed !!" ]'modal ]] ] ['modal 'no-buttons] ;;;; end of main view v/offset: 20x1000 do-events ;;;; you could change 'rate 2' to 'rate 1' if you cant catch it.   ;example 34 ;;;;An alarm clock - I called 'user32.dll,MessageBeep' to produce the alarm sound, I tested it on PC, ;;;;laptop and tablet with Win 7, Win 8.1, Win 10. without any problems. Red [ title: "Alarm Clock" Author: "Alan B" needs: 'view] h2: -1 m2: -1 tim: append form "Time: " now/time ;;<-- set tim variable with time ;;;;;;;;;;;;;; open the main view ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; view/flags [ title "Red Alarm Clock" tim: h3 font-color red tim rate 1 on-time [tim/text: append form "Time: " now/time t: now/time if t/hour = h2 [ if t/minute = m2 [call "start/min rundll32 user32.dll,MessageBeep"]] ] return text "------------------------------------" return h4 font-color blue "Alarm ...." ist: h4 italic font-color red bold "" return h: text 100x25 "Select hour ->" text-list 45x25 data ["01" "02" "03" "04" "05" "06" "07" "08" "09" "10" "11" "12" "13" "14" "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21" "22" "23" "00"] [h/text: pick face/data face/selected h2: to-integer h/text if h2 > -1 [ if m2 > -1 [ist/text: " *SET*" ] ] ] return ;;;;<-- select hour and to-integer it. m: text 100x20 "Select minutes ->" text-list 45x20 data ["00" "01" "02" "03" "04" "05" "06" "07" "08" "09" "10" "11" "12" "13" "14" "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" "20" "21" "22" "23" "24" "25" "26" "27" "28" "29" "30" "31" "32" "33" "34" "35" "36" "37" "38" "39" "40" "41" "42" "43" "44" "45" "46" "47" "48" "49" "50" "51" "52" "53" "54" "55" "56" "57" "58" "59"] [m/text: pick face/data face/selected m2: to-integer m/text if m2 > -1 [if h2 > -1 [ist/text: " *SET*" ] ] ] ;;;; <-- select minute and integer it. return button "Stop/Reset" 180x20 [ if h2 > -1 [if m2 > -1 [h2: -1 m2: -1 h/text: "Select hour ->" m/text: "Select minutes ->" ist/text: ""]] ] ]['modal 'popup] ;;<-- end main view  ;example 35 ;;;;A foreach thing .... try it and you'll get it !. ;;;;See my example 22 for more foreach. Red [needs: 'view] foreach info ["Us" "Them" "Me" "You"] [ View [ backdrop khaki h1 info ] ;;<-- display result in a view ]  ;example 36 ;;;; unview ;;;; multiple views Red [needs: 'view] v1: view/no-wait [backdrop orange size 300x300 h5 "Hello"]
v2: view/no-wait [backdrop green size 250x200 h5 "World"]
v2/offset: 700x450
v3: view/no-wait [backdrop yellow
button "unview/only v1" [unview/only v1] button "unview/only v2" [unview/only v2]
button "unview/all" [unview/all] return
text "An unview thing ! "
]
v3/offset: 800x500
;;;;;;;;;;  ;example 37 ;;;; a very basic parse example ;;;; see my beginners guide or my links page for more Red [needs: 'view]
myString: "Red is my favorite programming language"
view [title "A very basic parse example"
backdrop linen
below
h4 font-color red myString 450
button "parse1" [parse myString [thru "programm" change "ing" "ers" ] ]
button "parse2" [parse myString [to "programm" change "programm" "Cod"] ]
button "Parse3" [parse myString [to "my" change "my" "OUR"] ]
]  ;example 38 ;; disabled - enabled - hidden - visible Red [needs: 'view]
view [backdrop purple
t: h5 font-color red hidden "Hello !"
b: button disabled "quit" [quit]
button "enab/disab" [b/enabled?: complement b/enabled?]
button "vis/hid" [t/visible?: complement t/visible? ]
]  ;example 39 ;; It's a beep thing ! ;; piano will struggle with a less powerful system ;; the idea is to demonstrate 'on-down' and 'call' and not to be a serious piano app ;; click if using a mouse or tap screen if using a tablet Red [needs: 'view title: Piano author: Alan B.]
view/flags [ backdrop khaki title "Red Piano" return
button "Do" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(290,250) " n/text: "C"]
button "Ra" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(330,250) " n/text: "D"]
button "Me" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(360,250) " n/text: "E"]
button "Fa" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(390,250) " n/text: "F"]
button "So" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(440,250) " n/text: "G"]
button "La" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(480,250) " n/text: "A"]
button "Te" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(530,250) " n/text: "B"]
button "Do" 50x150 on-down [call "start/min powershell [console]::beep(580,250) " n/text: "c"]
return return
h4 italic font-color blue "Note played = " n: h4 yellow font-color red "" 30x30
return
h4 " ---------------------------------------------------"
]['modal 'no-min]  ;example 40 ;; tab focus from face to face Red [needs: 'view]
;;;; get tab keypress to move focus ;;;;
e: 0
view/options [ f1: field on-down [e: 0] focus return
f2: field on-down [e: 1] return
f3: field on-down [e: 2] return
f4: field on-down [e: 3] return
h5 "Hit 'tab' key !" ] [
actors: object [on-key: func [key event] [
if event/key = (tab) [e: e + 1
if e = 1 [set-focus f2]
if e = 2 [set-focus f3]
if e = 3 [set-focus f4]
if e = 4 [e: 0 set-focus f1 ] ]
] ] ]  ;example 41 ;;using 'loose', 'on-up', 'offset' and 'mold'
;;And boundaries, there's always boundaries.
Red [needs: view]
view [title "Drag/Drop"
size 300x200
b: box red "Drag/Drop" loose on-up [
if b/offset/x > 220 [print "X right side boundary" b/offset/x: 220]
if b/offset/x < 0 [print "X left boundary" b/offset/x: 1]
if b/offset/y > 120 [print "Y bottom boundary" b/offset/y: 120]
if b/offset/y < 0 [print "Y top boundary" b/offset/y: 1]
b/text: mold b/offset print b/offset
]
]  ;example 42 ;;using on-close can be useful ;;See my Red beginners guide for more on 'unview' Red [needs: view]
view [ size 300x200 title "Close from the title bar"
on-close [view [ h5 "You just closed a window" ] ]
h5 font-color red "Close, Unview and Quit" return
text "Using on-close gives control when using a close from the title bar" 200x30 return
text "Using unview will terminate back to the Red console" 200x30 return
text "Using quit will terminate program completely" 200x30 return
button "Click to unview" [unview]
button "Click to quit" [quit]
]  or see my 'Red Beginners Guide, here' including plenty more examples.
If you need help, you are welcome to email me and I will try to help.
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