Thanks for comments, Brian.

With an earlier APL+Win prototype I had much greater control over the
gui. The wd interface is very easy to throw a form together, but
limiting. I couldn't find how to get a multi-selection listview, hence
the gold bars. The separate "g" and "panel" fields are a bummer.

I'm planning to implement a fully isigraph front-end, which should
have a smoother feel. The appeal of TABULA will rely very much on its
look and feel. There are too many buttons as it stands. Shift-button
combinations will alleviate things here. Button "unit" is position (1
4) in the bottom buttons, but it's redundant now that you can type-in
units directly. I see you're getting rounded buttons on your Mac where
I'm getting square ones.

> Also, my numeric result after the three merges differs slightly from
> the numeric result on the jwiki: 179405 vs  170458 J.

This is what I get too, now. It's due to my recently using a more
accurate value of g, or [ea.g] as TABULA calls it (since [g] is
grams), the acceleration due to gravity at the earth's surface.

Ian


On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Brian Schott <[email protected]> wrote:
> I successfully downloaded Tabula. The download of user.zip was a
> little surprising on my Mac because my unzip creates its own folder
> named user in the current folder, so the manual subfolder creation was
> not desirable. Instead, unzipping in the tabula folder was better.
>
> Initial loading (and running) Tabula was smooth.
>
> I got a little confused in the merging example of the Clock Tower
> example by not knowing how to click *both* lines 2 and 4, but then
> realized that clicking in the g field was required. I finally realized
> that you warned about clicking multiple items earlier, but did not
> remember that warning at first.
>
> Also, my numeric result after the three merges differs slightly from
> the numeric result on the jwiki: 179405 vs  170458 J.
>
> http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1p5XfM75KXkg4Vx61NmIa54LdEs66P
>
> In the instructions for "Relabelling the energy items" you say to
> click "unit" but I could not find "unit". Instead I entered "J" and
> pressed return and got the desired result.
>
> Very kewl. Thanks.
>
>
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