> From: Raul Miller > Sent: Saturday, 6 November 2010 08:41 > > Personally, I have stopped tracking the J7 releases, because they went > from "install, start" to "install, try to start, not work, inspect > port use, > ...[snip]... > > I imagine it has gotten better since then, but I use J casually, and I > use it on a variety of different computers. When I do use J, I may > leave > ...[snip]... > > All of these are solvable problems, but I was not particularly > interested > in re-solving them for each beta release for each machine I use J > on. (Right now, that is between 3 and 4 machines.) Also, J7 was > advertised as "not really ready for people to use". > > With that perspective (which may be inaccurate or biased): > > ...[snip]... > > If anyone feels that I am significantly mis-representing the state > of affairs for jhs (other than I think the ports currently used are not > likely to run into OS conflicts), please let me know and I will give > it another shot.
I think that the jhs install experience is pretty good now - about on a par with j602 IMO. The instructions as given work fine for me (tested on Win7 32-bit and Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit). Download, default install, (Windows) click icon in "Start" menu: Start|All Programs|j701|jcon701 (or jhs701) If you wish for a browser window/tab with the J session to open automatically you can edit /j701/bin/jhs.bat (/j701/bin/jhs on Linux) to launch the jijx page in your default browser: "<...>jconsole" 'ide/jhs/core' -js " launch 'http://127.0.0.1:65001/jijx' [ init_jhs_ '' " You will want to update the ide/jhs addon shipped with the installer to the latest version if you want to work with scripts (fixes some bugs). You can do this using pacman (there is simple gui interface to pacman that works fine in JHS: link|pacman ). On Linux it is pretty easy to get the current GTK interface up and running too. The released GTK interface hasn't changed since June, but is working OK. Install the following two addons using pacman: gui/gtk and ide/gtk To start the GTK front end use: /home/<user>/j701/bin/jconsole 'ide/gtk' Getting the GTK Front End to work on Windows isn't quite so simple! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
