As a relative newcomer to J (and this is the first time I've ever used jconsole), I had some difficulty moving between the jijx and jopn windows without using the browser (Firefox 3.5.5) "Back" button (as instructed on the initial web page). It's easy enough to process the jpage'jopn' command, but there's no button on the initial "jopn" web page to take one back to the main "jijx" page and the only textbox does not accept commands (by analogy, jpage'jijx'), only filenames.
Additionally, how does one close down the whole operation? There's no "Close" button or command for the browser window; it seems one has to use the last-resort "Exit" button in the upper right corner. And, even more important (to me, at least), the documented exit command (Ctrl- d/Enter) in jconsole no longer works after one has used the jhs 1500 command. The only way I could close jconsole was using the upper right corner last-resort "Exit" button or right click the title bar and choose "Close". Whatever the answer is to this question, it ought to be documented somewhere. (It's like why they teach student pilots to land before they teach them how to fly.) Yet another quirk: in the main jijx window, I cannot select (click- drag) lines (often data, to see what the result of a J command is) and press the "Delete" key to clear just that portion of the window (as in the current GUI version of J), so that I'm back to where I was before I wanted to see the data (and can see my current and previous commands). If I use the jclear'' command, it deletes/clears the WHOLE window, not just a selected portion of the window. Related to this, when I'm developing an ijs script in the jopn window, I cannot select (click- drag) one or more lines of code and run ONLY those lines--the "run" command automatically runs ALL lines of entered code. Several of my above comments relate to the fact that I'm used to the GUI way (not the jconsole way) of working with J scripts. Otherwise, although the new interface initially took a little getting used to, the kinds of things I do with J seemed to work OK. (Doing a jclear'' command as the first thing to do when starting did correctly set up box displays.) FWIW. Harvey ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
