The page buttons could in fact open in a new tab or window. In general this is avoided by well behaved browser apps (or so I have read). But it can be easily done. My pattern now is to use bookmarks. Most browsers have a way (often ctrl+click) that will open the bookmark in a new tab.
(ctrl+jijx bookmark) vs (ctrl+t for new tab, bookmark) On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Sherlock, Ric <[email protected]>wrote: > I suppose I would envisage it transferring me back to the jijx window > without saving the script. > I agree that I could just close the tab and open a new tag to a jijx window > (or go back to a separate tab that had the jijx window open. I suppose it is > just a question of getting used to the paradigm a bit. > > In Firefox & IE8, if I middle-click a link it opens it a new tab rather > than in the current one. Perhaps links or image buttons could be used > instead of actual buttons to enable this behaviour too? > > > From: Eric Iverson > > > > Or just close the ijs window to discard changes. A cancel button is > > easy to > > add. but what would it do? Of considerable use would be undo/redo but > > note > > that this is completely under control of a J program and someone could > > easily add undo/redo. > > > > > > From: Sherlock, Ric > > > > > > > > > > What would be nice is a "cancel" button on the {?}.ijs window. If > > you edit > > > the .ijs but decide you don't want to retain the changes, you are > > currently > > > forced to run or save the script before you can return to the jijx > > window. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
