> It is interesting to try out the labs in both GTK and JHS. And while you're at it, please remember to record your results at: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Addons/labs/labs/ControlLabs
(Work has stalled since May. Come on, J Community... these still need testing and it's up to us.) 2011/10/17 Björn Helgason <[email protected]>: > It is interesting to hear that you use JHS for your work. > > I like JHS and would like to use it more but I seem to be a bit stuck in GTK > and use JHS only occasionally and see I need to spend more time on it. > > I guess there is a threshold to pass over to become fluent enough in the JHS > side of the world. > > As far as I understand from some of the messages then some people seem to be > stuck in J6 and have a difficult time crossing over to J7. > > It is interesting to try out the labs in both GTK and JHS. > > Some of them do have problems and they are different in each. > > I was running the same lab in both the other day and I needed to look for > text and in the GTK part the text at the beginning was gone but it was still > there in the JHS side. > > It can be a setting somewhere but the default settings seem to allow more of > the IJX session to grow bigger in the JHS side. > > 2011/10/17 Eric Iverson <[email protected]> > >> The jhs jijs problems stem from the complexity of the html5 contenteditable >> control. The html support for this control was new at the time jhs was >> developed and unfortunately support (and bugs) varied greatly across the >> various browsers. The situation has stabalized and I am convinced that with >> some serious effort the problems with jhs jijs could be resolved. >> Unfortunately right now this is not a Jsoftware priority. A wonderful >> exercise for an interested party. >> >> I use JHS exclusively for my own work and deal with the situation as >> follows: >> >> 1. for local JHS (files on the same machine as JHS server) I use my editor >> of choice (currently gedit because it is pretty much the same across >> windows/linux/mac) for script editing and my own dead simple project >> manager >> to handle script loads and opens. >> >> 2, for remote JHS I use the new (not yet part of the pacman jhs update) >> jijs >> editor built for the ipad. This editor uses a simple textarea edit control >> and although missing syntax coloring behaves nicely. This was initially >> driven because the iphone/ipad devices don't support contenteditable at >> all. >> But I have found that for remote editing the simple textarea works nicely, >> reliably and is adequate for most needs. >> >> Over the next few weeks I hope to make updates available that will make >> these two approaches more available. >> >> Meanwhile if you are using JHS locally I'd suggest using a local editor and >> providing a JHS shortcut to do the load as this will likely meet your needs >> better than the current JHS jijs form. >> >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Arthur Anger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > I have continually encountered minor difficulties in editing scripts in >> j7 >> > displays, related to disappearance and reappearance of newlines and >> leading >> > blanks when copying and pasting within or between execution and script >> > windows. >> > It had become clear to me that there is some form of invisible >> formatting >> > information at the front of each line. >> > >> > In the last few days I have been struggling with encapsulating some >> > debugging >> > commands for convenience, and run into major inconveniences--spelling >> > errors >> > pointing to various uses of 13!:3. I thought that I had boiled down the >> > examples to a significant few, but kept getting inconsistent results as I >> > tried >> > variations. At long last, I examined the stored script with a. i., and >> > found >> > those formatting characters faithfully copied in front of the "erroneous" >> > verb. >> > >> > Executing < 226 128 139{ a. will show the invisibility of the >> > three-character >> > sequence found in my screen-copied example. >> > >> > I would hope that the file-updating portions of the JHS code could weed >> out >> > these characters when pasted in places where they don't belong. 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