I have been following all the messages about people having problems with GTK. Here's my latest set of observations for the current beta.
1) I never incrementally install new *.exe - so I wiped out my j701 directory - downloaded the latest gtkwin32.zip and reinstalled from scratch. 2) I don't use the install all option of jpkg - I prefer to install selected packages from JHS using chrome as my browser - no problems getting the packages I'm interested in. 3) At work - nestled behind the corporate firewall - requests to download via wget calls fail so I download the gtk binary by direct browser reference followed by a manual unzipping to the proper location in the j701 directories. 4) Then I start jconsole and run 'install' jpkg 'ide/gtk gui/gtk' to set any J specific configs required - look the main install verb for details. Once this is complete the j701gtk icon on the program menus starts up without problems. I have spend about 45 minutes playing with the front end and so far it's very smooth. No crashes and only one message in the jconsole window warning me that a GTK theme was missing. I have tried the gtk editor on my JOD dump scripts. JOD dump scripts are typically massive J scripts - sometimes containing hundreds of verbs and thousands of lines. The GTK editor takes a moment to load these monsters but once they are up all the GTK goodies, script coloring, side bar tags, token coloring works like a charm. There are some hidden slick features in the GTK editor that some of you may not be aware up. I changed the session font to APL385 Unicode and opened up some *.tex LaTeX documents that contained APL source code in UTF-8 format. To my utter delight the syntax coloring properly colored LaTeX commands and the APL text rendered perfectly side by side with J code. The only editor I have see do this before is the TexWorks editor. I think I'm going to like this GTK environment - good work guys. -- John D. Baker [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
