How about an Integrated Use Environment (IUE)? What kind of environment would suit a student in a class where J is used as a programmable graphing calculator? His teacher? Other instructional models? Other users?
I imagine a two-pane environment with a note in the top pane: "Enter and edit definitions here. Type 'load definitions' in the execution window below to make them available for use there." In the execution window only the command being entered would be editable. Oleg Kobchenko wrote in the thread J7 IDE: > There is now a page on J Wiki to discuss JFE for J701. > > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Beta/Front%20End > > It is fairly free-form, and any ideas are welcome. > > > > >> From: "Sherlock, Ric" <[email protected]> >> >> Thank you for making that available. It is a really interesting read. >> >> I really like the decision to retain a separate method for defining a GUI >> and >> event handling for portability across JFEs. I'm also really looking forward >> to >> investigating the jbserver! >> >> Will the mechanism for implementing x-platform support for things like 1!:x >> and >> 2!:x be similar to the way say the media/platimg addon is organised? i.e. a >> generic script containing the common interface that loads the appropriate >> platform-specific script defining low level verbs that do the cd calls. >> >>> From: Chris Burke >>> >>> Background info on IDE changes planned for J7 is at: >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/jfe.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
