By making say the "ijs" button on the jopn page a link (rather than a button) the user could choose whether it should be opened in a new tab or the current one by left vs middle-clicking.
> From: Eric Iverson > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
