What is meant by Browse Files is to leverage the platform browser (or explorer) using jbrowse, as described earlier in http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/beta/2007-December/002749.html
As for "Working with J scripts" use cases, it is a good point to discuss. An interesting and surprising point about J Sesion Manager usability is that it is already an IDE. So with all it's merits, a project manager (on top of Sesion Manager) is an anti-pattern; it's true for me and I believe it was attempted to express earlier: "I think the J environment has been developed with a primary focus on programming and system development, not on its use as an interactive working environment." http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/beta/2007-December/002796.html An decisive advantage of J Session Manager, as compared to many other IDEs, is that it does NOT require to create any sorts of projects, do compilation or other overhead to be able to use the system; it allows to do your stuff right away. It would be useful if interested J users would share their order of use cases for J environment. Here's mine: 1. Run J and use session as calculator, occasionally load scripts or addons to use in one-liners. Nothing is persisted unless to email of forum. 2. Same as 1, but persisting the session log: do Ctrl+S so it is kept in temp. Edit session to keep neat. Then decide to copy the log to a more persistent location. 3. Make a temp script and edit it running in session (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+W, Ctrl+E). Then decide either to paste it to Wiki or to save to ~user. 4. Use a new temp script to paste a snippet or Literate script from Wiki, experiment with it. Delete on close. 5. Deliberately creating a script by saving to ~user. Then doing all edits in it. 6. Deliberately creating (an extension to) an addon or adapting a ~user script to an addon. 7. Using Project Manager to work with someone else's project. (Rare) 8. Creating my own Project Manager project. (Not yet) --- Chris Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > > I support the motion that Delete Temp Files > > is dangarous and not very useful operation, as > > compared to instead using the same menu spot for > > Browse User Folder, which will have Delete among > > other useful things. Moreover so that now temp is > > under user in j602. > > I removed the Delete Temp Files menu item. > > I am a little surprised that temp is being used for files that need to > be preserved. For such, project manager seems much better. There is no > problem in setting up a project that contains a bunch of unrelated > scripts, and this surely is easier to work with than temp. > > A browse user folder menu would be useful, but needs a browser. The only > cross platform one in J is dirs, which is limited to a single folder, > and needs to be extended to support folder changes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
