The ~user convention is not new to this version of J and has been with J forever. ~user is used by jpath to do the lookup in SystemFolders_j_. Because J iOS is jail rooted you have the coincidence that ~user and ~/user are the same. But they get that way in very different ways. You should use ~user as that is what you would use on J on any platform.
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Joey K Tuttle <j...@qued.com> wrote: > As usual, the apps installed cleanly and quickly, but there is a little > quirk on the iPhone. Seems the J icon is replaced by one that has the > "Welcome to J" message (kind of a fly's eye view of the working screen) > instead of the stylized J... (this doesn't seem to happen on the iPad) > > I couldn't detect any differences concerning the "launch images" you > described - but was wondering if that is somehow tied into the icon > corruption. > > Took me awhile to puzzle out the usage described in Hbutton but I would > say that the new help scheme seems like a good step. The fact that it is > closer to command line behavior suits me just fine. > > Adding the bullet button on the input line does make the text input > quite short in iPhone portrait mode (about 15 characters), but it isn't > a noticeable loss in landscape mode. I suppose you could make the > buttons a little skinnier, but they are already as skinny as the key pad > in portrait mode, I don't think you would gain enough to improve the > input line without making them very difficult to touch accurately... > > Nice to have the tar/zip archiving features - thanks. Double thanks for > the start.ijs feature!! > > It may be a convention (or a convenience) but I find the optional "/" > between ~ and directory to be contrary to my nix thinking... Interesting > that both dir '~user' and dir '~/user' produce the same result. Reminds > me of DOS where blanks could be left out - e.g. dira: being the same as > dir a: Seems like a bad idea just to save a character.... > > I can't get the results you claim from left/right swipe of the hview. > Such swipes switch applications in the order they appear with a four > finger up swipe of the screen (and your Hwww help message suggests using > the gesture that way to switch beween J and browser) I did manage, once > or twice, to see an effect of switching hviews, but it was from a > sequence of taps and gestures that I cannot reproduce. What am I missing?? > > On 2012/05/29 17:35 , Eric Iverson wrote: > > Build 1.19 adds a bullet button that can ease typging chores. > > > > Adding that button reduces the textfield a bit on the iPhone. Is it too > > short? Could the buttons be made skinnier? > > > > I don't currently have a real iPhone device and the simulator can be > > misleading. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
