> As it is currently working, I don't know the point of having Line & Show under Echo Run. I don't know what Connect and Disconnect under Server do. I also don't know what Center Panes under View does.
1. The Server menu with Connect and Disconnect is from the 2018 original, which connected to a remote server. Not needed in this version. 2. Line and Show means run the line and show the result, e.g. A=: i.3 would display 0 1 2, rather have no output. This is the same as Jqt, and should be useful in a demo. 3. Center Panes does just that, i.e. you can resize the Term and Edit panes as you like, and Center Panes will center them back. We should have the Help|Playground menu open a wiki page with better documentation. On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:07 AM Paul Jackson <plj...@gmail.com> wrote: > My initial response was to the appearance of this is approach. Issues I've > discovered in subsequent use in no way have distracted from that initial > opinion. I found several things to report, but I'm getting different > behavior on Android where I have to use Firefox and Chromebook where Chrome > does not crash. My children have the Chromebook and Windows 10 machines so > I have to wait till they're not working to try experiments on either of > those. > > The first issue isn't really in this app. All of the labs I remember using > begin with the sentence: > To advance the lab, select menu Help|Studio|Advance or the > corresponding shortcut. > To my knowledge, the Android version has never had that menu choice, but > it's always been so different than every other platform I've never reported > it. That seems important to overcome on something you'd like to show people > first. If I'm right about that sentence being in every lab, perhaps the > simplest thing to do would be just replace it with an empty string in this > app and assume people would use the advice at the top of the Labs menu. > > I haven't tested Windows yet, but so far I cannot advance a lab with Crtl+> > anywhere. > > Pressing enter after a result echos the last output, unless there was none > as happens with plot. In that case > Edit Run > Line > echos the line you typed as part of your entering the request initially, > and > Echo Run > Line & Show > has > output_jrx_ > under the plot. > > As it is currently working, I don't know the point of having Line & Show > under Echo Run. I don't know what Connect and Disconnect under Server do. I > also don't know what Center Panes under View does. > > My own preference for introductory interfaces is to provide as few choices > as necessary, and to choose both descriptive words and organizational > positioning to ensure the meaning of each is clear. To that end, several of > the items in the previous paragraph might best be removed. Furthermore, a > number of the options under Links seem better categorized as Help, and I > would argue for choosing one initial form of help even though I don't much > care which one it is. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
