I am slowly beginning to understand the mechanics of the new way of thinking in J701.
It is more or less starting out with a clean implementation of the user interface and whole lot of new ideas how the interaction with the J engine works from the user interface. All kinds of new acronyms are being introduced and there are a lot of new possibilities. I guess the community is introduced earlier in the process than ever before. This time around the helps are much more important than ever before and are crucial for the success. It is good to have J602 as a stable tool to use and I use it especially in order to get the find in files functionality to operate on the J701 texts. The J engine is also very stable and makes this whole exercise a whole lot easier and possible. I think it would be good idea to test out ideas in the help environment as options before they are implemented. That is introduce user interface ideas in the help first. Give examples of how to use the new options and why they behave like they do. The process of developing this new version could turn the original way of developing first and then trying to explain afterwards into first describing what is intended and then implementing. We all know legio of outdated help systems that have not kept pace with development even if good helps are key to the success of the product. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
