Bill, I made the changes you recommended. Also, I switched to Microsoft Edge as a browser and the "old antique" is now drawing beautiful plots in j805.
I'm not sure made he difference, but I never could get Chrome to work. Thanks, Linda -----Original Message----- From: Beta [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of bill lam Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2017 2:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Jbeta] [Jprogramming] first 806 beta vailable : icons don't work (macOS) those .cmd files are inside j install folder such as j806 while .exe files are under ~bin folder, usually j806/bin. On windows or Linux, you can launch j from either of them because cmd are batch file to call exe file under bin. This is just a personal preference. However if you click on desktop icons, things are more complicated especially when you have multiple versions of J installed or re-insalled, you need to right click and inspect its property to confirm where it points to. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:45 AM, Linda A Alvord <[email protected]> wrote: > In windows, I have put jconsole.exe's icon to use getqtbin'' > > However there is also jconsole.cmd in j508. Do they both do the same thing. > Is there a way to tell if the binaries are up to date? > > JQt has a similar choice. In windows they haveicons. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beta [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of J. > Patrick Harrington > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Jbeta] [Jprogramming] first 806 beta vailable : icons > don't work (macOS) > > The icon thing is interesting. I have a Mac mini running OS 10.12.3. I > installed j64-806 on it according to instructions. It was easy compared to > earlier releases, with the icons appearing on the desktop & all working. > Unfortunately :-( the processor is not new and doesn't support avx. > > My small problem is with my new Dell xps 13, running ubuntu 16.04 (I got it > with linux installed). Installing j64-806 goes smoothly and the three icons > appear on the desktop. Jqt, which is what I normally use is fine. > However, if I click on jc806 or jhs806, I get a window which contains the > message "Unable to find a shell". The windows do not function. I can run > jconsole or start jhs by going to thr j65-806 directory and running > jconsole.sh or bin/jsh (there is no jhs.sh file). Would be nice if the jc and > jhs icons could be coaxed to work. > > ... But really nice to have a trouble-free Mac install. > > Patrick > > On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Murray Eisenberg wrote: >> 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:[email protected] >>>> a >>>> il.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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
