Re: [Jbeta] J iOS data transfer

2012-06-22 Thread John Baker
Have there been any updates to the transfer process since this thread started? When I last looked the J code was not untangling properly. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.com wrote: You see the attachment jattach.html in your email message. Tap it and you

Re: [Jbeta] data transfer fixes

2012-06-19 Thread John Baker
Eric, I have just attempted your transfer process with the jod.ijs script. This is a 3000 line script so it's a good stress test. Good News: I was able to build the attachment and sent it to myself and save it as a temporary file. Bad News: The mangling required to stuff the script into html

Re: [Jbeta] data transfer fixes

2012-06-19 Thread John Baker
? On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, John Baker bakerj...@gmail.com wrote: Eric, I have just attempted your transfer process with the jod.ijs script. This is a 3000 line script so it's a good stress test. Good News: I was able to build the attachment and sent it to myself and save

Re: [Jbeta] j 1.2 (1.22) is now available

2012-05-31 Thread John Baker
The iPhone version of J sets the value of UNAME to 'Darwin' this is usually the value set for mac systems. I realize the iOS and mac versions are very similar but there are significant differences the most important being no 2!:0 shell calls for iOS. How can a running j script distinguish iOS

Re: [Jbeta] 1.19

2012-05-30 Thread John Baker
I can confirm the Icon corruption that Joey reported. The same thing happened on my iPhone 4. The little new . button return ev_bullet__jevents_ not defined. The combination of __ and _ in one J name looks like a typo. On other notes. I've managed to get a fair chunk of JOD running on the iPhone

Re: [Jbeta] 1.19

2012-05-30 Thread John Baker
into the app store. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:07 AM, John Baker bakerj...@gmail.com wrote: I can confirm the Icon corruption that Joey reported. The same thing happened on my iPhone 4. The little new . button return ev_bullet__jevents_ not defined. The combination of __ and _ in one J name

[Jbeta] After reading about editing j iPhone sandbox files I gave it a try on a flight to Phoenix.

2012-05-17 Thread John Baker
After reading about editing j iPhone sandbox files I gave it a try on a flight to Phoenix. The day before I loaded the main JOD files in the sandbox with the aim of getting JOD to run on the iPhone. My first attempt did not work. My JOD code thought it was on a Linux system. To make it work I

[Jbeta] Green input when debug engaged on jPhone

2012-05-16 Thread John Baker
I've noticed that when you turn on the debugger (13!:x) and hit a stop the input field goes green. Since the normal color is restored when you turn off the debugger I presume this is by design. Also, for those interested in what's installed in the j iPhone directories. iTunes does not see files

Re: [Jbeta] release build 1.13

2012-05-14 Thread John Baker
I think I've come up with a name for your new product Eric. What comes after the iPhone? Why the jPhone of course. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.comwrote: There is a new release available. You should see the testflight notification shortly. I forgot to

[Jbeta] iPhone Libraries

2012-05-13 Thread John Baker
I've started using the windows version of iTunes to move files into the J iPhone app directories. This works as expected. Just for kicks I loaded in a script that reads inverted APL .dbi files that I recently developed at work. It runs and loads inverted files and does do impressively fast on

[Jbeta] iPhone J

2012-05-11 Thread John Baker
First impressions - wow! I ran through the install process on plain old 3g connections - no problems. The app comes up . I was able to step through the initial demos without problems. The standard J graphics look great on the iPhone 4. Is there anyway to change the size of the default session

Re: [Jbeta] iPhone J

2012-05-11 Thread John Baker
real estate. The next build will bump the default font size up a bit. Any suggestions on how to make ?J easier to find? On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:27 AM, John Baker bakerj...@gmail.com wrote: First impressions - wow! I ran through the install process on plain old 3g connections

Re: [Jbeta] Invoking the JGTK editor from the terminal.

2011-02-04 Thread John Baker
. You have managed to turn web browsers into handy array processing programming environments - well done. jdb On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:47 AM, John Baker bakerj...@gmail.com wrote: open works like a charm in gtk - thanks everyone. Eventually somebody will figure out how to open browser edit tabs

Re: [Jbeta] Invoking the JGTK editor from the terminal.

2011-01-30 Thread John Baker
, 28 Янв 2011, John Baker писал(а): I am in the process of updating JOD for j701. One of most useful JOD verbs is ed which fetches a a word, (or many words), from JOD databases, formats them as a script, and then opens that script for editing in what was a wd (.ijs) window. How do you

Re: [Jbeta] Invoking the JGTK editor from the terminal.

2011-01-30 Thread John Baker
In my case I am asking for a new TAB by explicitly calling for one in the ijx page. But I agree that popping up stuff that wasn't asked for is annoying. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM, David Mitchell davidmitch...@att.netwrote: I must admit that I have softened my absolute aversion to

[Jbeta] Invoking the JGTK editor from the terminal.

2011-01-28 Thread John Baker
I am in the process of updating JOD for j701. One of most useful JOD verbs is ed which fetches a a word, (or many words), from JOD databases, formats them as a script, and then opens that script for editing in what was a wd (.ijs) window. How do you open a script for editing in JGTK from the

[Jbeta] Remarks of lastest GTK Beta

2011-01-17 Thread John Baker
I have been following all the messages about people having problems with GTK. Here's my latest set of observations for the current beta. 1) I never incrementally install new *.exe - so I wiped out my j701 directory - downloaded the latest gtkwin32.zip and reinstalled from scratch. 2) I don't use

Re: [Jbeta] J701a - GTK Front End Install

2011-01-11 Thread John Baker
I will add my observations on the current GTK beta install for windows machines. On my home machines I had no problem downloading a clean j701 beta and running install 'gtkide' in jconsole. On office machines - behind the usual corporate firewall the getgtkbin verb hangs. I looked at the

Re: [Jbeta] 64 bit COM interface in j7?

2010-12-18 Thread John Baker
for Jsoftware. Merry Christmas. I suggest all hardcore J fans hit the donate button. Let's make it a Christmas tradition. John Baker On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.comwrote: Assuming your 2 processes are in the same address space you have a few choices

Re: [Jbeta] OK, Now I'm in Trouble! ;-)

2010-12-17 Thread John Baker
IT policies - don't get me started. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Charles Turner vze26...@optonline.netwrote: Thought someone might be amused by this: [vatic 40819882] DreamHost Policy Bot Alert Our automated system has come across the following activity under your account that is in

Re: [Jbeta] 64 bit COM interface in j7?

2010-12-17 Thread John Baker
Though I am happy to see COM's backside it was the most useful and stable J/Win interprocess protocol on Windows. I gave up using the dll server years ago as I like my processes separate and protected. This is one of the great things about JHS. The current JHS setup looks great for passing text

Re: [Jbeta] Gtk on Mac

2010-12-13 Thread John Baker
Well I can confirm that the latest dmg installs and runs ok on intel mac os 10.6. I've only got the console up and running - safari does not seem to respond even after JHS starts. As I am a mac neophyte it's probably operator error. I haven't tried GTK yet - starting with the simple thing

Re: [Jbeta] Gtk on Mac

2010-12-13 Thread John Baker
that you can cut and paste into the address box of the browser of your choice. The J session will run as a window/tab on the browser. Hope this helps. Cheers, bob On 2010-12-13, at 8:38 PM, John Baker wrote: Well I can confirm that the latest dmg installs and runs ok on intel mac os 10.6

Re: [Jbeta] new beta installers available

2010-11-05 Thread John Baker
The latest beta rolled in without any problems. It looks great in Chrome. The download is now so small I thought I made a mistake - decrufting almost always improves software. On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Dan Bron j...@bron.us wrote: Eric wrote: The J engine has not changed. Would it

Re: [Jbeta] 1.0.12 JHS update available - Google Charts - a big deal

2010-08-02 Thread John Baker
I agree - neat web trick. On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.comwrote: ...jconsole ~addons/ide/jhs/core.ijs -js jhs'' The standard installer has a ~bin/jhs.bat file that does this. On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:30 AM, John Baker bakerj...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [Jbeta] new j701 beta for all platforms

2010-06-09 Thread John Baker
I can confirm this works. I also had the flash and die console but I have JHS up in the Chrome browser now. On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Eric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.comwrote: Please try to following to get more info about what is going wrong. 1. start jconsole 2.

Re: [Jbeta] Gtk IDE

2010-05-17 Thread John Baker
with large semi-compiled JOD scripts that contains hundreds of defined names. Of course it slows down but is still useful. For scripts with less than 30 names it's almost the bees knees. John Baker On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 7:52 AM, Sherlock, Ric r.g.sherl...@massey.ac.nzwrote: From: bill lam

Re: [Jbeta] Gtk IDE

2010-05-16 Thread John Baker
I installed the windows version and kicked it around a bit. For an early beta this looks quite promising. It will be nice to standarize gui's across the three main J platforms, windows, linux mac. The one thing I did notice was the handlng of syntax coloring for comments. If seems that only

Re: [Jbeta] J7 IDE

2009-10-22 Thread John Baker
The devil is always in the details. I am generally in favor of replacing native foreigns with cd calls but the potential removal of the 1!: and 2! families caught my eye. If this step is taken please provide clear scripts on the various platforms illustrating how these verbs can be replaced with

Re: [Jbeta] [Jchat] Clean elementary functions?

2009-05-22 Thread John Baker
I would second this! On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Alex Rufon alex_ru...@ist-systems.comwrote: In J6.03: This is not a Typo right? :) I hope the support for Unicode in getb() and setb() functions are included/fixed. This is the only remaining objection by the other members of my team

Re: [Jbeta] JOD and j602dbeta_win

2008-02-15 Thread John Baker
of +-++ |0|!JOD error: no dictionaries open| +-++ I am using k-beta the libraries are 0.2.5 2007/12/15, John Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are indeed correct. The labs and documentation are still under development

[Jbeta] Info Button on Package manager fails in j k win32 builds

2008-02-14 Thread John Baker
Just a little ticky-boo problem I noticed today. When you click the Info button for a particular addon in now throws a domain error. Previously it took you to the wiki page describing the addon. I noticed this in the J win32 build but it also fails in the current k win32 beta. jdb

Re: [Jbeta] VB COM Interface

2008-02-03 Thread John Baker
This may be BINPATH related I will do some checking. On Feb 3, 2008 7:28 AM, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't checked carefully, but I believe the J server bugs with BSTR lengths were fixed in the 601 release. At quick check shows no differences in that area between 601 and

[Jbeta] VB COM Interface

2008-02-02 Thread John Baker
I have been running a VB/COM application for a number of years. If's a VB6 application that mostly passes BSTR's to a J application. None of the betas in the current 602 cycle work with this application. The last J version that works is 6.01. Registering j602 and using this app results in a

Re: [Jbeta] JOD and j602dbeta_win

2007-12-14 Thread John Baker
You are indeed correct. The labs and documentation are still under development. The Introduction lab is not complete. If you got to step 31 you managed to get quite far. I presume the installation/setup worked or you wouldn't have made 31. On Dec 14, 2007 1:01 PM, Paul Gauthier [EMAIL

Re: [Jbeta] jar addon for J601?

2006-09-06 Thread John Baker
Murray, The JAR addon is being revised - slowly in my spare time. I've changed the name to JOD and* *I am using the shift from j5.0x to j6.0x to reorganize things a bit and add some new functions. The new version will only work with j6.0x systems and beyond as the x.y. ... arguments have been

Re: [Jbeta] j601ubeta_win.exe

2006-08-22 Thread John Baker
I was wondering what what happen after the z beta - maybe next time. On 8/22/06, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ubeta for Windows is available at: http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j601ubeta_win.exe A tentative schedule up to the final release: 22 Aug - ubeta for windows 24 Aug -

Re: [Jbeta] x. spelling error default

2006-05-31 Thread John Baker
I second this! On 5/30/06, Anssi Seppälä [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand now why the y. was changed to plain y. It makes J more natural for new users and new users we all like to see. This is just such thing that can awake new users interest if they see interesting examples at the first