Thanks, I like the idea of a user-defined config, and also that it need not involve tiling as such. It could be similar to the Launch Pad menu, with each entry a name followed by the appropriate wd command.
We can already position a window with a wd command, e.g. wd 'sm set edit xywh 0 0 500 500', but for this menu I think percentages would be better, as the same command would work irrespective of current screen resolution. Perhaps wd 'sm set edit xywhp 0 0 50 100' to mean 50% horizontal, 100% vertical, and wd 'tile p1 ... p8' as a short form of this to mean the edit position followed by the term position. On 17 August 2015 at 09:34, robert therriault <[email protected]> wrote: > What about having an option to snapshot a current configuration of screens > and then save it. This would allow you to drag and size screens into > position as you wanted and then later retrieve the configuration from the > list of definitions that were created, perhaps off of a menu selection? > > Cheers, bob > > On Aug 17, 2015, at 9:24 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > While we are on this, another J6 feature I'd like to port is some kind of > > tiling. > > > > In J6 and earlier, this was important because each edit session was a > > separate window, and it would be common to have several J windows open. > > Tiling was one way to manage this. > > > > In J8, there are nearly always only two windows, Term and Edit, so there > is > > not the same need as before. However, I occasionally want to tile so the > > two windows fill the screen, either horizontally or vertically. This is > > particularly useful when giving presentations, so only J needs to be > shown. > > The original state should be remembered so they can be tiled and untiled. > > > > The question is what are the appropriate commands, and should this be > fine > > tuned so that, for example, you could give Term 40% of the screen and > Edit > > the rest? > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
