Hi Brian,

When you click on the category buttons, the different lab buttons associated 
with the category should appear, and when you click on the lab button, an alert 
should pop up that tells you what number should be used as an argument to jx.  
Eric replied in an earlier post in this thread, "I don't think the current 
release will allow javascript running in the html view to call J." So the issue 
is not whether JavaScript runs (it clearly does), but that it does not have a 
channel to send information back to the J interpreter. That is why my alerts 
can tell you what you need to do, but they can not get J to do it for you. 
Interestingly enough there are some events that can trigger J code (the swipes 
to go back and forth on the hview come to mind).

So the next step would be to provide a conduit where events in JavaScript 
trigger J code. Until that bridge is built, we can sit in the land of J and 
create Javascript text and run it, but once we are in JavaScript land we can 
not send anything back to J (other than finger swipes). I think Eric would have 
the best understanding of the mechanisms, so just take my explanation as hand 
waving at this point.

Cheers, bob





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