I am visiting my sister, who has her own schedule, and in some of the in-between times, I've got Cliff Reiter's "Fractals Visualization and J" 4th edition, Part 2 to keep me entertained.
I've also got the j807 beta from a week or so ago installed on this machine, and the required addons aren't available yet for this version of J. The smart thing to do would be to install j804 or j805. Generally speaking if you're going to get anything practical done with external interfaces (including graphics coding), you're going to be working with back versions of software. Arbitrary people like deprecating interfaces for arbitrary reasons which means that if you're on the "current version" interfaces tend to stop working, arbitrarily. But I'm not all that great at choosing the smart option, so I'm trying to figure out how to get Cliff's stuff working under j807. Looking closer, ... we're in the process of moving the j addons over to github, but the current release still pulls them from http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/ There's a j804 and a j805 directory there, and in this context there seems no reason to prefer one over the other. Also, I'm on osx (darwin) so I'll focus on those instances of the packages for now. This means the working versions of the packages are: http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j805/addons/media_imagekit_1.0.7_darwin.tar.gz http://www.jsoftware.com/jal/j805/addons/graphics_fvj4_1.0.17_darwin.tar.gz Interestingly, j806 drops back to version 1.0.6 of the imagekit addon, for whatever reason. Anyways, j807, which is what I'm using, doesn't have the imagekit addon at all. It does seem to have the same graphics_fvj4, and: Updating server catalog... Done. Installing 1 package of size 1.7 MB Downloading graphics/fvj4... Installing graphics/fvj4... Done. ... it seems to be installed, but: load'graphics/fvj4' not found: /users/rauldmiller/j64-807/addons/graphics/fvj4/fvj4.ijs |file name error: script | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' ... apparently, it's not that kind of package. And, for media_imagekit, I pulled down a copy of the media_imagekit_1.0.7_darwin.tar.gz file and unpacked it in my j64-807/addons directory, And... so far, it seems to work. So, anyways, maybe the j805 media_imagekit files could be included in the j807 jal repository? There might be problems, but I imagine that we can work through them... Thanks, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
