Agreed. JHS JAL needs work. The final version will have useabilty similar to J602 and will be similar to the final J701 GTK version.
Now that the JHS framework is filling out, important cosmetic details in an interface will be much easier to put right. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > Two comments about the update process: > > (1) Not remembering that the jal link at the bottom of the jijx page > took me to the right place to do updates, I went to the Help page. But > there's nothing on the latter telling how to do updates. Perhaps there > should be. > > (2) In this one instance, of course, I knew which add-on to update. But > in general, it is unintuitive and inconvenient to figure out which ones > need updating when Status reveals there is one or more such: you have to > read through the entire list and examine carefully the version numbers > of the installed and latest version -- not made any easier to do by > their being run-on with no intervening punctuation other than a space. > The format used in the J602 Package Manager is _much_ quicker and easier > to use. > > On 7/27/2010 12:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:56:23 -0400 > > From: Eric Iverson<[email protected]> > > Subject: [Jbeta] JHS update available > > To: Beta forum<[email protected]> > > Message-ID: > > > > <[email protected]<v0s8-ihnmscnzg9tzt_pg%[email protected]> > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > A significant JAL update (1.0.9) is available for JHS. > > > > If ide/jhs is listed in the installed list, select it and press > 'upgrade > > selected'. > > > > If ide/jhs is listed in the not installed list, select it and > press'installl > > selected'. > > > > This update is not installed at the Jsoftware JHS (JUM) server, but will > be > > shortly. > > -- > Murray Eisenberg [email protected] > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. > Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) > University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 > Amherst, MA 01003-9305 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
