Hi Ian, I got the tabula working. Thanks. This is an interesting paradigm of computing. I am still learning more about this.
Thanks for sharing this work. Regards, Yuva 2010/4/16 Ian Clark <[email protected]> > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
