The shader demo is now working on win7/32bit systems. QT is now actively competing for my J/IDE love.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:30 PM, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike > > >BTW Micro$oft does not just delete delete stuff, i moves it to a bin, > and only empties that when it gets overfull ... so look for "$Recycle Bin". > Has saved my bacon many a time;-) > > greg > ~krsnadas.org > > -- > > from: Mike Day <[email protected]> > to: [email protected] > date: 20 June 2014 10:41 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > Touche. Serves me right for teasing you about Pirate talk. > > >I usually do rename the old folder, but thought a cleaner installation > might get over that slow loading problem I'd had. (it hasn't!) > > >As for backing up - yes of course, but..... ie the same old story > > Thanks, > > Mike > > -- > > from: chris burke <[email protected]> > to: Beta forum <[email protected]> > date: 20 June 2014 08:14 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >The standard J installation puts ~user outside of ~install so as to > preserve it on uninstall. > > >Also, we only suggested a reinstall. J does not touch the registry, so > the easy thing to do is rename the old J802 folder as a backup before > installing again. > > >BTW, backing up every few weeks is asking for trouble. Why not backup > every day? > > -- > > from: Mike Day <[email protected]> > to: [email protected] > date: 20 June 2014 07:34 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >Because that's where it's always been! I had thought that this was > tolerated despite not being preferred. Same as I keep ws and myws folders > under dyalog apl despite that not being their recommendation. > > Mike > > -- > > from: bill lam <[email protected]> > to: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > date: 20 June 2014 05:21 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >Uninstall should remove the ~install folder, ~addon is under ~install > folder so it will be removed. However ~user should be a separate folder > created by default profile. Why you would prefer putting ~user under > ~install ? > > -- > > from: Mike Day <[email protected]> > to: [email protected] > date: 20 June 2014 03:08 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >I took you at your word and uninstalled J802 ready to reinstall from > scratch, taking the precaution of renaming user as user802 so it wouldn't > get overwritten or deleted. I did consider setting it as read-only but > thought better of it. Admittedly, my user folder sits under j802 rather > than in j802-user or whatever. > > >To my horror, I saw all user802 files and folders deleted. Luckily I do > have a back-up disk which is a few weeks old, but I've lost all recent > stuff. Luckily (!?) I was smart enough to copy addons and profile....ijs to > another area, to save time reinstating them later. > > >I thought (obviously wrongly) that uninstalls usually left user-defined > files and folders untouched. > > It might be worth warning other users of this feature. > > Now to see what goes wrong with install... > > -- > > from: Mike Day <[email protected]> > to: [email protected] > date: 20 June 2014 02:40 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >Aaaaargh - debugger be not ready for thee Beta Jay - sounds like my Avast > in "talk like a Pirate" (or parrot) mode! Thankee, Chris. > > >Seriously though - I continue to have J602 up and use its debugger when > in a J802 fix. OK for plain programming problems. > > Mike > > -- > > from: chris burke <[email protected]> > to: Beta forum <[email protected]> > date: 19 June 2014 21:17 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >We want to restore the Debugger sometime, but it not be ready for the > J802 release. > > -- > > from: Fraser Jackson <[email protected]> > to: [email protected] > date: 19 June 2014 20:57 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >Calling the Debugger from the Run menu used to be an option which I found > very useful. Is that likely to be restored? > > Fraser > > -- > > from: Joe Bogner <[email protected]> > to: [email protected] > date: 19 June 2014 19:20 > subject: Re: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > >Scrollbars and the editor looks great on my android samsung s4. Much more > usable. Thank you > > -- > > from: chris burke <[email protected]> > to: Beta forum <[email protected]> > date: 19 June 2014 19:03 > subject: [Jbeta] new J802 beta > > A new 802 beta is available for most platforms. As before, install from > http://www.jsoftware.com/download/j802/install. > > Please try reinstalling from scratch, thanks. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
