There are J entries for a number of the GUI I see a couple need updating for J8 still.
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:GUI Also see: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Animate_a_pendulum#J The minesweeper and 2048 tasks on RosettaCode also have GUI interfaces that have been made available as addons: games/minesweeper and games/2048 If you have those addons installed you can view the code eg: open '~addons/games/2048/ui_wd.ijs' HTH On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:55 AM, Dabrowski, Andrew John < [email protected]> wrote: > Have you put yours on RosettaCode? If not, where can I find them? > > On 01/10/2018 02:29 AM, Ric Sherlock wrote: > > I can understand the appeal of the WYSIWYG aspect of the old form editor, > but I much prefer the current system for designing and building forms. I > spend much less time aligning controls perfectly and the form resizing > behaviour is much better. > > As for the cross-platform experience, there is no contest - the current WD > implementation is far superior in terms of functionality, reliability and > appearance. > > I'm sure that the state of flux of GUI development from J6.02 to J8 didn't > help foster a plethora of GUI apps, but I think the paucity of GUI apps is > primarily due to the focus of the majority of users than the facilities of > the language. > > The GUI's I've developed are far from complex, but I've found them > relatively easy and satisfying to build, and compare favourably with those > of most other languages for GUI-based tasks on Rosetta code. > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 6:17 PM, Björn Helgason <[email protected]><mailto: > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > J used to be great at making guis and had the best form editor on the > market. > After the fom editor was dropped we have been struggling. > I would love to have easier ways to create guis. > > On 9 Jan 2018 18:57, "Dabrowski, Andrew John" <[email protected] > ><mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > So it seems that J is not a self-contained language for making GUIs: you > also need to know either html and js or qt. Clojure has the significant > advantage that the GUI code is in idiomatic Clojure. > > All I said was that J isn't a _good_ language for creating GUIs when > compared with Clojure, Python, or Java for example. I would have thought > that would be uncontroversial: in fact there are very few examples of GUIs > in the repo, and none are elaborate. Evidently no one in the J community > places a very high value on GUIs. > > Which is fine, not every language needs to be great at facilitating the > construction of GUIs, there's a place for scripting languages. I'm happy > to grant J the distinction of being a superb calculation and scripting > language, but for GUIs it happens to be mediocre. > > On 01/09/2018 03:02 AM, Björn Helgason wrote: > > JHS is using HTML as a front end. > There are numerous ways of interacting with HTML tools. > You can see examples and demos doing gui/graphics etc and mixing with > javascripts. > It may be difficult to distinguish between what is J/Javascript. > > On 8 Jan 2018 22:13, "Dabrowski, Andrew John" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto: > > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > After reading "Algebra as Language" and "Computers and Mathematical > Notation", I'm starting to see J the perfect language for numerical > computation. But for general purpose programming I can see Dijkstra's > point. > > When APL was designed computers were seen largely as calculating > machines. But by the 1970s GUIs were starting to be developed, and > computers were being applied in areas where tensors were no longer adequate > as the sole data structure. One thing general purpose programming > languages must have is extensibility, and that J lacks. > > I'm trying to work out what the appropriate use cases are for J, and I > think it's calculating with tensors. If you need more than tensors, or if > you need more than calculation (e.g. GUIs), J is not a good choice. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
