I don't know the domain very well but it looks like part of your problem
has to do with trying to work synchronously in an asynch medium - am I
interpreting this corrrectly?
On Mar 24, 2014 2:00 PM, "Raul Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We (people) have a general problem where things seem simple when we
> understand them but they seem outrageously complex when we do not
> understand them.
>
> We have evolved a variety of mechanisms to deal with the transition between
> complex and simple, and there's something fascinating about all stages of
> the process.
>
> Anyways, I would not knock yourself too hard for struggling with this kind
> of thought. Simply being willing to work through it, here, might have
> educational benefits for others, in the future. And, it will also help you
> understand some of the architectural struggles other people might be
> facing, when refactoring and/or working with stable interfaces.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Raul
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > Björn,
> >
> > The short answer is, yes, but ...
> >
> > I have been revising a turtle graphics app, tgsj, that employed opengl, a
> > sort of precursor to webgl, calling the new version tgsjhs. tgsj was
> > entirely a j app with dll calls to opengl and all of the turtle move/turn
> > commands eventually use paint verb to alter the drawing. tgsjhs is
> similar
> > and I was stuck on thinking that each paint should draw the webgl canvas
> by
> > sending the turtle/canvas state to javascript using jhrajax. I guess no
> one
> > could imagine that I would not realize that putting the jhrajax into the
> > ev_command_enter was the obvious, needed variation. I had no difficulty
> > placing PENDING=:'' in ev_command_enter, and building PENDING in paint,
> but
> > I never did think to put `jhrajax PENDING` into ev_command_enter. I think
> > the reason it took so long for folks to understand my problem was that it
> > should not have been a problem.
> >
> >
> > ev_command_enter=:3 :0
> >   PENDING=:''
> >   ". s=. getv 'command'
> >   jhrajax PENDING
> > )
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:57 AM, Björn Helgason <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Trying to understand the issue.
> > >
> > > You want to start several batch jobs and you do not really know if some
> > of
> > > them have finished yet?
> > >
> > > Right?
> > >
> > > -
> > > Björn Helgason
> > > gsm:6985532
> > > skype:gosiminn
> > >
> > > --
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