Raul, Wow. That is a lot of valuable, targeted information for you to have provided. Thank you, a lot. I do use Mac OS X, so your guesses are on target. I will experiment with your recommendations soon.
One thing that I sort of left out was that step e) is done on my iPad, typically, and that is easy enough, but when I use the iPad away from my local network, I have to supply the IP address of my desktop computer. I'm not asking for an automatic way to do that, just saying it wasn't mentioned in my description. But it would be ideal if that were the only thing I had to remember to do. Your approach gets close to the ideal. I bet there is a way to control the sleep time preference with a unix script file, and I'll research that on line, too. I was hoping your answer would inform me of a free web hosting site that supports JHS/J. I use google appengine for free for python/html apps, but they are not calculation intensive. I guess that I'll likely have to dream on, though, for a free J/html5 host. Thanks, again, On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems to me that you could use an operating system script (a .bat > file, for example) to perform a number of these steps in sequence. Or, > if that is outside your comfort level, a sequence of shortcuts on your > desktop might work for you. > > Or, for the "shutdown" thing, maybe take advantage of how setting are > different for running on battery vs. plugged in. (Don't shut down when > plugged in, shut down after a relatively short time - and with a dim > screen until then - when running on battery.) This assumes your > computer has a battery, though... otherwise, I guess maybe go with the > desktop shortcuts approach (which should be doable, though I've not > researched that myself). > > Another thing is that when you launch j (from a script, or shortcut) > you can specify a j script for it to run (that's what happens when you > launch jhs). So you should be able to take advantage of that, here - > write a script to load up your stuff, and then drop into jhs, rather > than loading up jhs and then using the browser to have jhs load up > your stuff. > > For example, it might go like this: > > click on the link to set your power down preferences. > > click on the link which runs the .bat file to start up your jhs app(see > below) > > ...... > > click on the link to revert your power down preferences > > actually, why don't you just manually power down your machine when you > are done? That will shut down jhs, also... > > Meanwhile, the .bat file to start your jhs app would look something like > this: > > start path-start-jhs-server > sleep 3 > start http://127.0.0.1:65001/locale > > Or, if you are running OSX, replace 'start' with 'open' and make this > a shell script rather than a .bat file. (No extension on the file > name, first line is #!/bin/sh and chmod +x filename before running > it.) > > Actually, if I recall correctly, I think you will be using OSX, so... > for the jhs side, you could do > > open /Applications/j64-805/jhs.app > > but instead, you probably want to take the script at > /Applications/j64-804/jhs.app/Contents/MacOS/apprun which will look > something like this: > > #!/bin/sh > open -a /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app "`dirname > "$0"`/../../../bin/jhs.command" > > which basically just runs /Applications/j64-805/bin/jhs.command > > which looks something like > > #!/bin/sh > "`dirname "$0"`/jconsole" ~addons/ide/jhs/core.ijs -js " init_jhs_'' " > > # see ~addons/ide/jhs/config/jhs_default.ijs for config info > > (the dirname stuff is so that the J application can be installed > anywhere - this finds stuff relative to where that particular file is > stored.) > > So you can simplify that to: > > #!/bin/sh > /Applications/j64-805/bin/jconsole '~user/startserver.ijs' -js > 'startcommand 0' > > replacing the "start" stuff with whatever works for you (and maybe > using double quotes if you do not like single quotes - but be careful > that some characters, like $ or ` are special when you use double > quotes). > > and the "startserver.ijs" command (or whatever you decided to name it) > would include > > load jpath '~addons/ide/jhs/core.ijs' > > and its final statement would be: > > init_jhs_ '' > > ... > > I've not actually tried this, but I think that that should work. > > Good luck, > > -- > Raul > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
