Answers inline: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for the help. J is looking better and better. > > Successful update. When I clicked status it said up to date. Apparently it > was not. I had selected base to update even though it was supposedly up to > date. Later when I went to ijx I saw that it had updated. Should give > status > of updates on the pacman form. I keep expecting pacman to work like it does > in the J6 form. Shouldn't status present a list of addons? I get the list > by > clicking inst. Then I can only select one addon from the list to install. > pacman needs work. Goal will be to have it be the same as on J7 GTK. For now the buttons map pretty directly to the low-level pacman verbs and this can be confusing. Menu buttons scroll off the top of the ijx form when the page scrolls. They > should not scroll. > Non-scrolling menus are the rule with desktop apps. Not so much in browser apps. I had a version with non-scrolling menus but it took lots of javascript code that was filled with dealing with browser and platform differences. I finally decided to just go with them scrolling as part of the normal browser window. Knowing about ctrl>1 (ctrl then 1) helps a bit. I'm waiting to see how much clamour there is for fixed position menus. Some of these issues will go away with html5 but that is still a ways off. I am waiting to see how much noise is raised. > > Is there a way to tell what version I am running. pacman versions don't > show > the same version information that you used in your note. > jal installed should show the version you have installed and the latest version available, > > When you say to use the ctrl key as an escape, I assume you mean to hold > the > ctrl key and press another key. Doing ctrl+n in Chrome results in a new > Chrome window, not a new ijs. > As you have probably seen by now, the J IDE shortcuts avoid the browser use of ctrl as a shift with a character and instead uses ctrl as an escape. > > Missing is a way to close an ijs script. I can load, save and run an ijs, > but I can't close it from the menu. > The concept of close changes somewhat in a browser app. Just close the browser tab. There are complicated issues here, but they probably don't involve a close missing from the menu. > Perhaps the menu options at the top should be the same for all forms and > disable those that are not applicable. More like it works in J6. > This could be done, but I think we'll see that there are enough different types of pages that forcing the menus to be more similar is not worthwhile. A bit more user expoerience and refinements in the IDE will sort this out. > > Keep expecting to put the cursor on a line and pressing enter to copy the > line to the bottom for editing. Instead, have to edit it on the line before > entering. I can work that way too, but it would be nice if the line were > restored to its original contents on pressing enter to keep the log looking > correct. > This now works pretty much the way it did in 602. Editing is just editing. Enter in the last line run the line. Enter in other lines recalls the that line for editing as a new last line. I don't think 'restoring the line' is a well defined idea and the benefits of being to just edit are significant. > On the J server on your system. I shut down my session and restarted it, > but > it doesn't work like my local version. Is it updated yet? > > Have not update Jsoftware jum jhs yet. Will announce when that has been done. I llike to wait to see nothing too stupid has snuck in before doing that update. > > Thanks > Don > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
