It would bring into JHS the usability in line with what was in J6 and is in J7 GTK.
I like to work mainly in ijs and send line or lines over to ijx and occasionally copy results from ijx over to the ijs to use for further testing. Working in/from the ijs also makes creating scripts easy. Working directly in ijx can be a problem especially changing lines in the log above the one you are working on makes the following lines not true. Copy/paste many lines into the log is not good either. That is why I like scratch to avoid working directly in and with the log and not need to juggle between tabs. Using spxinit on some ijs file name for the spx and display that file in a form and work with it in the form and having ijx in another form on the same page is good and opens up many possibilities. It would be good to show the line numbers in the spx display form so when in the ijx you can say spx 13 and then step on with ctrl+shift+. JHS would thus leapfrog the old J6 usability in this as well. Sending lines to the spx file delimited with LF or as boxes and then edit them in the form window would be ideal. So the lines in the spx form could be a file on disk or a noun in a locale. 2011/12/24 Eric Iverson <[email protected]> > The idea of using spx (managed execution) on scratch is interesting. I > suspect the way to go is to kill off scratch as such a different beast and > make use of normal script editing easier. For example having an ijs window > and ijx window in frames in the same tab. That would be better than scratch > and spx would come for free. Building from the frame demo it should be > quite easy to create a new form that does this. > > 2011/12/24 Björn Helgason <[email protected]> > > > I like the scratch facility in JHS very much and find it very useful. > > > > I am just wondering if it is possible or easy to add the option of > sending > > a marked line from scratch to the ijx > > > > It is good to be able to copy lines from e-mail or somewhere else in bulk > > to scratch and then execute them individually from there. > > > > It is ok to copy them individually from scratch to the ijx but sending it > > from scratch without the need to copy paste would be a bonus. > > > > Possibly tie the scratch with the sp and give them numbers so spx number > > would execute the line in question. > > > > Possibly do spxinit 'scratch' and then spx 5 and so on. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
