smact is used inside labs to transfer focus back to term after creating a new form. This is just for convenience and not mandatory so that the cmd may be dropped. On Jul 21, 2014 5:32 AM, "Don Guinn" <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK. Thanks. > > What about "fixed" as in: > cc editname edit;set editname fixed 60; > Is it supposed to be gone or did it get accidently dropped? > > What does (wd 'smact') do? > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:26 PM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ...pops up when the form is closed. I could put "exit 0" in a close > event > > for the form, but that doesn't seem like a good way to solve the problem. > > J6 had an option that when the last window closed J closed. That doesn't > > seem to be J8 works. > > > > Right now you have to use "exit 0" at the end. This was an oversight and > is > > fixed in the next binary - i.e .J will close when the last window closes. > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Trying to figure out how to prevent the ijx window from appearing for > > > making standalone applications. I found an example in Wiki Guides/ J8 > > > Standalone. But the zip file of the project build for the application > > > missing -(http://www.mcardle.wisc.edu/mprime/download/viewer-1.zip). > > > > > > I downloaded the installer of it for Windows and it ran; however, it is > > for > > > an earlier version of J (5/14/2013) and browsing viewer.ijs is rather > > > difficult and it crashes the current version of J. > > > > > > So I have a few questions. > > > > > > Obviously, what happened to that zip file? > > > > > > Is there a way to tell if the development environment is displayed? I > can > > > use (wd 'ide hide') to hide it and (wd 'ide show') to hide and show it. > > The > > > viewer.ijs used a name "IDE" to tell, but that name is no longer > defined. > > > > > > A test script below which runs a simple form does not show ijx until > the > > > form closes. > > > > > > The script _________________ > > > > > > wd 'pc test closeok;pn "Test"' > > > > > > wd 'cc xx static; cn "Text here"' > > > > > > wd 'pshow' > > > > > > > > > wd 'ide hide' > > > > > > End of Script __________________ > > > > > > > > > I went into Windows Associate a file type and told it that file type > .ijs > > > should run jqt.exe to run the above as standalone. If I remove the "ide > > > hide" the IDE shows up immediately, so the hide helped. But then the > IDE > > > pops up when the form is closed. I could put "exit 0" in a close event > > for > > > the form, but that doesn't seem like a good way to solve the problem. > J6 > > > had an option that when the last window closed J closed. That doesn't > > seem > > > to be J8 works. > > > > > > Next question: > > > The viewer description also mentioned using "fixed" to help control the > > > size of something. > > > cc editname edit;set editname fixed 60; > > > It isn't in the current J. > > > > > > There is a new wd command and verb not documented - "smact". It simply > > runs > > > the wd command with the argument "smact". It is not documented in > "Driver > > > Command Reference". What does it do? In the viewer.ijs script the verb > > > "smact" was defined quite differently as a cd call. > > > > > > I am not trying to build apps for distribution and to run on all > > systems. I > > > am trying to find a way to make standalone J apps to be used on a > system > > > with J8 already installed. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
