I was terribly gung-ho announcing TABULA without testing it carefully under Windows.
I have now done so. It needed a number of subtle changes, especially to topend.ijs, and there are all new scripts to download. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/IanClark/TABULA The Chat forum just wasn't the place to expand on my "elephant" project. But I have now written this up as a Wiki page: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/TABULA/LaunchElephant Best to read this one first: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/TABULA/ChurchClock because it explains basic operations and techniques better, with screenshots to illustrate them. I have tested it only under Win2000. From my experience of XP and Vista, these can play tricks with apps developed under Win2000. Not that I anticipate any trouble, except maybe with button placements. Of course, I didn't expect trouble going from Mac to Windows... On the Mac I can assign utf-8 chars to button tops, specifically π (pi), and it displays ok. But alas not under Win200, where you only see a placeholder for a missing character. If this offends you, please edit bn.ijs and replace the π with pi throughout. LaunchElephant and ChurchClock are trial chapters for a collection of projects to: "help people learn to manipulate numerical approaches to reality." Thanks to David Siegel for this insight. The format is undecided, but I initially saw it as having much the same shape as At Play With J. A series of articles originally appearing in a journal, collected into book form, with simultaneous publication of a soft version on the J wiki able to support an ongoing discussion and to make the code in the book available for the reader's own experiments. But from what I can see of J701, it offers a distinctively 21st-century opportunity to dissolve the boundaries between all these hitherto separate modes of publication. Ian On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been reworking my old APL+Win prototype called TABULA, best > described as a scientific calculator for intelligent laypersons. It's > now in a fit state to be exhibited and I'd like someone else to play > with it, please. > > Dowload the app (scripts only: no proper installer yet, sorry) at: > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/IanClark/TABULA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
