Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
On 5/31/06, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it is a good thing that we provide the J IDE in addtion to the old tried and true tools. Certainly:) However i too have been limiting my use of it. Primarily for one reason: When J crashes it takes the ijs windows with it:( If i use

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
Yes, when J crashes you may lose unsaved code, this is why intead of Ctrl+W, I use Ctrl+S Ctrl+W all the time, esp. with things like DLL calls. To salvage ijx you can save it periodically too, it will then just increment file name/number in temp for the next ijx session. ctrl w reminds me to

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
Eric On 5/31/06, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have edited several scripts at the same time and a run of one of them is dangerous (might crash) then an S of each before the first W would be wise. The simple habit of always running after editing largely removes this concern.

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
Eric wrote: I think it is a good thing that we provide the J IDE in addtion to the old ried and true tools. greg wrote: Certainly:) However i too have been limiting my use of it. Primarily for one reason: When J crashes it takes the ijs windows with it:( If i use another editor then i

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
On 5/31/06, Miller, Raul D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that when you save the file under a different name you do not have any good way of getting rid of the old copy. However, if you do not save under a different name, J will delete it if you are not careful. That moving between the temp

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
On 5/31/06, Oleg Kobchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- greg heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i do think the notebook concept is not addressed well by either ijs or ijx. And is something closer to the heart of actual development. Is this what you are thinking, similar to the idea in session

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
On 5/31/06, Chris Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it good practice to develop code in ijx, and use ijs only for storing the code. This might work for trivial code fragments but would quickly bog down for larger systems. Heh, maybe you should remove the statement stack. It is

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-05-31 Thread greg heil
On 5/31/06, Chris Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to quantify not getting much mileage? The debugger is not perfect, but most things work pretty well, and I use it all the time. What specific things does it lack? There seems to be no way of teasing a tacit apart. No indication of where

Re: [Jbeta] J IDE

2006-06-06 Thread greg heil
On 6/6/06, RS HUI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - What is ur? - What are x and y such that the following fail: x rute y x rutt y Ah, OK, i'll send you the script again Both verbs work, just that the tacit one does not get the debug GUI to report its argument values. ~greg

Re: [Jbeta] x. spelling error default

2006-06-11 Thread greg heil
On 5/31/06, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand the request you can already get it with edit|configure. Edit|Configure|Color press Add, select arguments, press OK, press OK... Voila. I guess the question is what if anything should be added to the default config. Those

[Jbeta] Re: caching of files in the IDE

2006-06-15 Thread greg heil
Then there is the oddity that if i do a File | Refresh Tabs (while in Project or Other tabs) in the Project Manager and then go to either the Project or Other tabs and click on a Files item ... the highlighted item reflects a file in the Source tab not what it should be for that tab... i have

Re: [Jbeta] Re: caching of files in the IDE

2006-06-15 Thread greg heil
to understanding;-) Thanks for the guidance. If a project is opened in Project Manager, it is not going to continually re-read the project, just in case an external program has changed it - in this case, exit Project Manager, make your changes, then reload it. OK greg heil wrote

Re: [Jbeta] self postings WAS: caching of files in the IDE

2006-06-15 Thread greg heil
On 6/15/06, Chris Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greg heil wrote: this. Otherwise i think there may be a Mailman setting that does prevent posts being echoed back to the author. It is a common feature for mailers. Usually though one has access, individually, to setting that option

Re: [Jbeta] self postings WAS: caching of files in the IDE

2006-06-15 Thread greg heil
Bill and Björn: On 6/15/06, Björn Helgason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote If you use gmail you can cc or bcc to yourself as well as to the list and then get your own mal in the inbox That is what i am resorting to. Otherwise if you want to read your own mail to the list before someone replies on

Re: [Jbeta] receiving own posts

2006-06-16 Thread greg heil
On 6/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WRT receiving your own posts (or not): I assume you've turned on (or perhaps toggled off and back on) the option Receive your own posts to the list? in your list options? No i had not touched the controls, they were in default. Have

Re: [Jbeta] receiving own posts

2006-06-16 Thread greg heil
On 6/15/06, greg heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's also an option Receive acknowledgement mail when you send mail to the list? That is set to to No. Is an acknowledgement the same as the outgoing Posting ? If so then perhaps

[Jbeta] form edit undo

2006-06-23 Thread greg heil
Any value to the behaviour of undo in an ijs window: which wipes the file out, if performed after a Form Edit modification? A second undo finishes the undo of the Form Edit operation. A subsequent redo goes back to the clean slate, with a second redo again implementing the form edit operation.

Re: [Jbeta] keystrokes in dialogs

2006-07-07 Thread greg heil
Thanks Bill two separate issues: -- IDE GUI issues On 7/7/06, bill lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greg heil wrote: Dunno if this is new in the betas, but there do not seem to be keystroke equivalents for dialog buttons - though there are underlines Did you request something like

Re: [Jbeta] keystrokes in dialogs

2006-07-07 Thread greg heil
On 7/7/06, Henry Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: greg wrote: formname_isigraphname_eventname_formlocale_ '' That event is supposed to populate sysdata. Is that what you need/mean by an output parameter? Also hoping to get/utilise Mouse Events, but i need to first figure out the 4

Re: [Jbeta] pocketpc beta available

2006-07-08 Thread greg heil
On 7/8/06, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 601 o beta is available for the pockepc. http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j601obeta_pocketpc.zip I'm afraid the answer is that J601 (and later) require Windows CE 4.20 and we won't be doing the considerable work to get it to work on

[Jbeta] accelerator keystrokes

2006-07-11 Thread greg heil
In the keystrokes in dialogs thread in Programming i wrote: Though in that instance i am referring to the J GUI's dialog, for Find (there are similar issues with other dialogs). i consider it a bug/fault to have keystroke indications and not respond to keystrokes. Perhaps it is buried in

Re: [Jbeta] Pocket PC Beta

2006-07-12 Thread greg heil
On 7/12/06, Oleg Kobchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One should be careful and read the startup guide. First time I was trying to do a reset, it didn't work. As it turned out I was poking the microphone, ... it was lucky to have survived. Unfortunately people don't come with such manuals. Early

Re: [Jbeta] accelerator keystrokes

2006-07-20 Thread greg heil
Find dialog has been reworked. That's great! There is now some keystroke interaction and the ability to repeat finds accounts for maybe 40% of usage so one can significantly often avoid reopening the find dialog. However reopening the find dialog can be painful and the keystrokes defined in

Re: [Jbeta] x m} y

2006-07-21 Thread greg heil
On 7/21/06, Roger Hui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If m is not a gerund, x m} y is formed by replacing by x those parts of y selected by m{ (an error is signalled if such selection requires fill). i like that: it will expose any problems in users code, and open the way in the future for new

Re: [Jbeta] accelerator keystrokes

2006-07-25 Thread greg heil
The lack of keystroke equivalents seems pervasive, at least throughout J601beta... Eg these dialogs all have underlined letters that do not respond to ctrl or alt keystroke combinations: Studio | Lab Edit | Configure Run | Project Manager File | Recent Edit | Find in Files This one does seem to

Re: [Jbeta] accelerator keystrokes

2006-07-25 Thread greg heil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand the complaint. Things work for me as I would expect in windows. Let's follow through on a specific case. start J mouse click Studio menu mouse click Labs... Alt+R (underlined shortcut letter on the Run button) selected lab is run Does this not

Re: [Jbeta] j601tbeta_win.exe

2006-08-19 Thread greg heil
On 8/19/06, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do those apps do with keyboard input in the same case. That is, as the focus for the wheel moves does the focus for up/down arrow also move. If so, I think it simply means that mouse move events over the control do an automatic setfocus.

Re: [Jbeta] u M. (Memo)

2006-09-08 Thread greg heil
On 9/8/06, Roger Hui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point of fib is not that it is better than f7a, but that M. removes the exponential time penalty associated with a straightforward recursive algorithm. It can also reduce the recursion stack overhead. Using a memoized K verb i was able to push

Re: [Jbeta] end of a long road

2006-09-09 Thread greg heil
On 9/7/06, Dan Bron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The J601 beta is over and the J601 release is now available for all platforms. Aww, I was hoping to find out what came after Beta Z. Well someone had to say it! i think we should all jump up and down and scream to demand to know what would have

[Jbeta] cannot use J6.02

2007-10-03 Thread greg heil
Looks like i am stuck at J6.01, as J6.02 says get Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86) While trying to install the above package a closing dialogue box says: This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product vendor. Probably

Re: [Jbeta] cannot use J6.02

2007-10-04 Thread greg heil
According to Chris (thanks!) this bounced Subject: Re: [Jbeta] cannot use J6.02 From: greg heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 17:03:05 -0700 To: Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com On 10/3/07, greg heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, Eric Iverson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

[Jbeta] Re: [Jprogramming] Hex conversion error

2007-12-15 Thread greg heil
Crashes 602 beta d too. On Nov 28, 2007 4:32 AM, Arie Groeneveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... dfh17=: 16 #. 16x | (H,h) i. ] dfh17 14#'1' ... This works fine under 6.01 on W2K (gets a value error for H) but crashes 6.02c - after a few seconds, it closes the main window. ~greg krsnadas.org

Re: [Jbeta] Problem migrating a project to beta

2008-01-25 Thread greg heil
On Jan 25, 2008 6:32 PM, Henry Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem is always with us when there are incompatible changes. I'm just saying that if 1!:45 could be quietly supported, the problem would disappear, and wouldn't that be nice? 1!:45 works for you in j602?? it works for me

Re: [Jbeta] form editor

2008-02-10 Thread greg heil
] wrote: I think you have a typo in your dice_roll_button verb. The lab specifies the verb as follows: dice_roll_button=: 3 : 0 wd 'set values *',::?6 6 ) I.e. you have a @ instead of a * -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of greg heil Sent: Sunday

Re: [Jbeta] issues not yet resolved

2008-02-24 Thread greg heil
pmove is still not working as of 6.02b(q)... On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 6:04 PM, greg heil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pmove information is lost (ie that line in the form noun is stripped back to pas info) when the form editor uses several options including nomin, nomax, right bottom. Putting

Re: [Jbeta] Gtk IDE

2010-05-18 Thread greg heil
a nice principle is to have the UI duplicated: mousing, keyboarding, few mixes. Then all (most) in either. ~greg krsnadas.org -- fromChris Burke cbu...@jsoftware.com reply-toBeta forum beta@jsoftware.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date18 May 2010 04:19 subject Re:

[Jbeta] Syncing Jsoftware-hosted JHS session

2010-08-11 Thread greg heil
i have gone into a JHS session hosted on the Jsoftware server with two separate machines. Can work ... but syncing the history between the two machine/sessions seems to require: 1 logout 2 password 3 ijx button in FF. In contrast DropBox is fine with just a refresh in FF. Are their

Re: [Jbeta] Syncing Jsoftware-hosted JHS session

2010-08-11 Thread greg heil
the log to your hearts content. Right now there are just 2 options: jlog 0 NB. clear the local log and just see new transactions jlog _ NB. show the entire log of all transactions since J started -- fromgreg heil ghei...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date11 August

Re: [Jbeta] Syncing Jsoftware-hosted JHS session

2010-08-11 Thread greg heil
: dostdshortcut(c); break; } } case 'r': -- fromgreg heil ghei...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date11 August 2010 16:44 subject Re: [Jbeta] Syncing Jsoftware-hosted JHS session Eric Yes! jlog _ on a second browser session reSynchs them to their commonality. This is better

Re: [Jbeta] JUM JHS updated

2010-10-16 Thread greg heil
Eric How does one kill' a task on the JUM? i got a new login with 1.0.25 - and it is stuck there - and the older login is stuck at an even older release:-( Loging out, killing cookies, does not seem to be enough. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromDon Guinn dongu...@gmail.com to Beta forum

Re: [Jbeta] JHS JAL update 1.0.29 available

2010-10-18 Thread greg heil
JUM does not seem to obey USER/config/jhs.cfg ...at least the pswd is not synced greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromBjörn Helgason gos...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date18 October 2010 08:57 subject Re: [Jbeta] JHS JAL update 1.0.29 available Tanks for the upgradeable

Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs

2010-10-24 Thread greg heil
i set up a htm page consisting of an ijx, ijs and help frame from the JUM: htmlheadtitlexsh/title/head frameset cols=44%,* frame src=http://www.jsoftware.com:53692/jijx; name=ijx, scrolling='auto' frameset rows=77%,* frame src=http://www.jsoftware.com:53692/jijs;

Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs

2010-10-25 Thread greg heil
a ?? greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromRaul Miller rauldmil...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date25 October 2010 06:38 subject Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 5:38 PM, greg heil ghei...@gmail.com wrote: i set up a htm page consisting of an ijx, ijs and help

Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs

2010-10-25 Thread greg heil
Ah, i put a file frame in like this htmlheadtitlexfsh/title/head frameset cols=44%,* frameset rows=44%,* frame src=http://www.jsoftware.com:53692/jfile; name=file, scrolling='auto' frame src=http://www.jsoftware.com:53692/jijx; name=ijx, scrolling='auto'

Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs

2010-10-25 Thread greg heil
Ah one can navigate to a particular ijs file using jfile, when one opens it, it opens into an ijs frame. Using the 'link' mechanism one can mutate a frame to any frame type. One cannot create or destroy frames from the browser (so far as i know) so the arrangement is set. The main limitation to

Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs

2010-10-25 Thread greg heil
i do have two logins - but cookies prevent one from using both ijx's. So far i have not been able to get two working, even by switching cookies (using the cookieswap plugin for ff (chrome?)). greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromBjörn Helgason gos...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com

Re: [Jbeta] default switching jhs

2010-10-25 Thread greg heil
In the JUM cookies are use for login and context. It may well be possible to get around this in ones local sandbox environment and have parallel ijx's - while still having difficulties in talking to another machine. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromBjörn Helgason gos...@gmail.com to Beta

Re: [Jbeta] JHS JAL update 1.0.34 available

2010-10-25 Thread greg heil
The action menu shortcuts seem to run out of steam after 3 entries which garner q, w e. The shortcuts 1 2 seem to be tied the menu and body of a frame (perhaps a case could be made for using 3 to go to the 'scratch form). Maybe this would be a good place to try a second level? Eg q1, q2 q3... or

Re: [Jbeta] how unsplit window after run jdemo9

2010-10-26 Thread greg heil
Do you mean go backwards in history? i use the keyboard shortcuts of alt left and right arrows alot for navigating the history. Or one can go to an entirely new URL by dragging the URL into the window. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromMurray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu to

[Jbeta] paste of marked up copy

2010-10-27 Thread greg heil
If i put 1 in the paste buffer (from an html source, eg ijx or ijs windows) and i paste into ijx and return, ijx evaluates 1. Good. If i do 5 pastes so i get 1 on the command line and i still get 1 as the evaluation result! Interspersing the pastes of 1 with numbers so i have 012131415 i get

Re: [Jbeta] paste of marked up copy

2010-11-06 Thread greg heil
If x has a string, doing y=:x,'Z' works, but the same line in the scratch area gets: |domain error: jloadnoun__ | y=:x,'Z' |[-0] greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromEric Iverson eric.b.iver...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date28 October 2010 06:46 subject Re: [Jbeta]

Re: [Jbeta] paste of marked up copy

2010-11-07 Thread greg heil
Re: [Jbeta] paste of marked up copy The problem is using names x and y. The scratch window lines are run in a verb and that verb has local copies of x and y. -- fromgreg heil ghei...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date6 November 2010 08:42 subject Re: [Jbeta] paste

Re: [Jbeta] paste of marked up copy

2010-11-08 Thread greg heil
...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date8 November 2010 05:14 subject Re: [Jbeta] paste of marked up copy I can only suggest using JUM to kill and restart both tasks. -- fromgreg heil ghei...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date7 November 2010 17:42 subject Re

Re: [Jbeta] pacman permissions

2010-11-09 Thread greg heil
options require internet access Yes, there should/needs to be access for a 'clean-room' machine, one which can/does not have continuous internet access. A zip file or a like snapshot would satisfy this need. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromSherlock, Ric r.g.sherl...@massey.ac.nz reply-to

Re: [Jbeta] pacman permissions

2010-11-09 Thread greg heil
that it can use to update its local catalog? -- From: greg heil Sent: Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:48 options require internet access Yes, there should/needs to be access for a 'clean-room' machine, one which can/does not have continuous internet access. A zip file or a like snapshot would

[Jbeta] mailing browser

2011-01-11 Thread greg heil
watch out for line wraps... almost a mantra on these fora;-) Is there a way, perhaps using mark down, to get around that? Generally it seems most email client apps seem to mess up the writers intentions:-(( Perhaps there is a way if only in our fora (not necessarily the wider word of emailed

Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser

2011-01-11 Thread greg heil
level. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromRaul Miller rauldmil...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com cc Chat forum c...@jsoftware.com date11 January 2011 14:09 subject Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:24 PM, greg heil ghei...@gmail.com wrote: watch out for line

Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser

2011-01-11 Thread greg heil
Bjorn The problem is that solution is verbose (for the user) and only works when the user has a J environment handy, it requires the user to shuttle environments ... i am hoping for a solution for more general readers and problems. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromBjörn Helgason gos...@gmail.com

Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser

2011-01-11 Thread greg heil
and send it offNB. LC you can send it off in small chunks -- fromgreg heil ghei...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date11 January 2011 15:53 subject Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser Bjorn The problem is that solution is verbose (for the user) and only works

Re: [Jbeta] [Jchat] mailing browser

2011-01-12 Thread greg heil
. -- Raul -- fromAlan K. Stebbens a...@stebbens.org to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com cc Chat forum c...@jsoftware.com date11 January 2011 22:59 subject Re: [Jbeta] mailing browser On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:24 PM, greg heil wrote: watch out for line wraps... almost a mantra on these fora

Re: [Jbeta] Installation without access to internet

2011-01-13 Thread greg heil
Yes! Just a second as i do not have an answer. But i do have two clean room machines (Ubuntu and W7) which would very much like to have J on them. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromdavid alis david.a...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date13 January 2011 04:59 subject [Jbeta]

Re: [Jbeta] Installation without access to internet

2011-01-13 Thread greg heil
Bill It is not yet done ... what is it recommended? To begin, and to continue... greg ~krsnadas.org -- frombill lam bbill@gmail.com reply-toBeta forum beta@jsoftware.com to beta@jsoftware.com date13 January 2011 17:18 subject Re: [Jbeta] Installation without access to

Re: [Jbeta] Installation without access to internet

2011-01-13 Thread greg heil
That sounds easy, and in line with my projected state. i wonder how i let J know of differing placements on the two machines/OS's... Or are there a parts to keep? greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromTikkanz tikk...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date13 January 2011 18:18 subject

Re: [Jbeta] e-mail etc

2011-01-18 Thread greg heil
Björn Yes if there were a programmatic email client app made one could add a mode for squirting through formatted etc arbitrary text- as it could handle both coding and decoding. greg ~krsnadas.org -- fromBjörn Helgason gos...@gmail.com to Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date18

Re: [Jbeta] transfer with hopper bookmark

2012-06-19 Thread greg heil
Eric my interaction with the site says it is a Flash one. For me, w/o Flash, it is write only. More famously Apple mobile eschews Flash. Has any one succeeded with an Apple mobile? i was able to reverse engineer a page but have not been able to do anything with the PublicURL ... Its hash is

Re: [Jbeta] transfer with hopper bookmark

2012-06-20 Thread greg heil
if there are use cases where hopper provides interesting value. From my iPad, reading that email, and clicking the link worked fine, and there was nothing about flash. -- from:greg heil ghei...@gmail.com to: Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date:19 June 2012 15:28 subject: Re

Re: [Jbeta] transfer with hopper bookmark

2012-06-20 Thread greg heil
for the iPAD (one way only). Good to know. I'm surprised as they certainly talk about iOS. Did you try www.gethopper.com in safari with a hopper account? Judging solely on my 1 message might not do it service. -- from:greg heil ghei...@gmail.com to: Beta forum beta@jsoftware.com date:20 June