Never mind … ‘sorta’ … I just noticed icons jc80.app, jhs806.app, and jqt806.app on my desktop; they had been obscured by other open windowx, including the browser whose instructions for installing J I had been following!
These 3 icons DO work. And when I double-click jqt806.app, then jqt menus DO work as expeted. Needless to say, this business of two sets of .app icons — one in the j806 bin folder and the other on the desktop — is ocnfusing. The docs need to be amended to indicate that these newly-created icons on the desktop are the onds to use and NOT the ones in the j64-806 folder. > On Mar 15, 2017, at 5:03 PM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > [Sorry for cross-posting: I originally posted, in 2 separate messages, to > programming forum.] > > (1) Once again with this (beta) release, under macOS Sierra (10.12.3) none of > the 3 icons > > jcon.app > jhs.app > jqt.app > > work: double-clicking (even right-clicking) does not open the corresponding > binary for any of them. > > The corresponding binaries do work: > > bin/jconsole > bin/jhs.command > bin/jqt.command > > I did follow the instructions you point to (suitably modified from 805 to > 806, of course). > > How to get the icons app icons to work?? > > (2) However, after I open jqt from the binary bin/jqt.command, although the > jqt window opens, none of the menu items is operable. > > Further, if I run instead binary bin/jqt, I get only a console — no jqt > window — with error message shown below: > > [me@:~]$ /Applications/j64-806/bin/jqt ; exit; > This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt > platform plugin "cocoa" > in "". > > Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. > Abort trap: 6 > logout > > When following the 805 instructions for 806 instead, I did use “installer 0”, > and I do have folder > j64-806/Qt with subfolders Frameworks and plugins, both poppulated. > > P.S. avx is working (when starting a binary directly) > > >> On11 Mar 2017 17:44:41 -0500,Eric Iverson <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Sat, >> From: >> To: Programming forum <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Subject: [Jprogramming] first 806 beta vailable >> Message-ID: >> <capropvgsl1woqyo+vdr3x8k+nco2jl7hx0u-9sbrqw1e1xn...@mail.gmail.com >> <mailto:capropvgsl1woqyo+vdr3x8k+nco2jl7hx0u-9sbrqw1e1xn...@mail.gmail.com>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 >> >> The first 806 beta is available. >> >> 806 will be primarily a performance release…. >> And give big thanks to Henry Rich for this core JE development! >> >> *** >> Follow web site download links to Installation/Beta. Do appropriate >> download from j806/install folder and then follow the Archive install >> instructions. These are 805 release instructions, so be careful to use 806 >> as appropriate. >> >> The install contains a default non-avx JE binary as well as an avx JE >> binary. The launch icons will run the non-avx binary. Make sure the install >> is stable and when you are ready, switch to the avx binary with the >> following steps: >> >> load'~addons/ide/jhs/installer.ijs' >> avx'' NB. follow the instructions >> >> If your hardware/OS supports avx, then the next time you start 806 it will >> use the avx binary. Verify this by checking 9!:14'' (you will see avx in >> the string). > > > —— > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) > University of Massachusetts > 710 North Pleasant Street > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > > > > —— Murray Eisenberg [email protected] Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 240 246-7240 (H) University of Massachusetts 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01003-9305 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
