1. Separate labs would be great - let the content come pouring in and we'll arrange it in the best way. I'd like to see 100 chapters and a dozen labs.
2. I will add an option to Debug to remove the KeepOnTop, and engage that from the lab. I will have to see how to turn that on for other uses of Debug. 3. I will work on getting tooltips placed better. 4. I've never heard of webview & will investigate. 5. The "expert versions" are not all tacit, only the early ones. The expert version is the version I would write for my own use, comments and all. Sometimes it's the same as the novice version, sometimes it's tacit, sometimes it's explicit using more advanced forms. I was afraid to leave them out altogether for fear that a user would think, "this J is supposed to be so terse but here it still takes several lines of code to do xxxxx" where the expert form would be one or two lines. My hope was that seeing how compact the expert forms are would give more reason to keep learning. If the expert versions do more harm than good we can remove them, but I'd like more novice opinion on that subject. Henry Rich ---- Don Guinn <[email protected]> wrote: > An excellent tool! A real opportunity to extend the lab concept. > > I question the "expert code" examples being all tacit. Nowhere in the lab > is tacit explained. And the "J by Point and Click" Wiki page specifically > recommends that tacit code should not be used as it could overwhelm the > beginner. All the expert examples are tacit. That implies to me that expert > code must be tacit. I don't think that that is true. > > It seems to me that instead of adding chapters to this lab that making > separate labs using the point and click tools tools would work better. That > would make the various topics covered more visible in the labs form. > Perhaps add a new "Point and Click" category to the Lab Select form. > > I found it irritating to have the Debug form always on top. It covers other > forms and I am having to always move it around or minimize it to see what > it covers. But that is not an issue with this lab. More of a general issue > with the Debug form. > > On the tool tips. Is it possible to move the tips down a little from the > cursor? On Windows 7 the cursor hides the first few letters of the tip. > > The lab uses the browser extensively for various explanations and > additional information. This assumes that the internet is available. > Perhaps that is a valid assumption as the internet is available almost > everywhere. But it should not cause an error if it is not. One possibility > would be to use webview to bring up the internet information instead of the > browser. This also provides the opportunity for interaction from the web > page into Point and Click as events in webview are seen in J. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
