Thanks, Eric. Sorry for the delay - watching Wimbledon & out for a while.
Yes - it seems fine in portrait mode.It's not immediately obvious that there are three sections of display; I don't know what you call them, so when it says "scroll through these topics... ", it's not quite clear what that entails. How would I know, a priori, that there's something beyond "avg 7 8 9 10<-| "? When I do scroll, the last line is " jw'wiki' <-| " . This does not appear to be copy/pastable,
nor executable with my brand of fat fingers.Is it possible to have different light background colours in these three sections, to help
distinguish them?Just now, there's a rectangle of bright blue below the keyboard, when it's enabled. I don't
recall seeing it at first.The large blue full-stop (period in US) appears to hide or show the top of the three sections
of screen. Is this described anywhere?I don't share Joey's problem with the keyboard in landscape, with the iPad Air. The k/b's all there; it's just that it occupies just over 2/3 of the screen, leaving about 1/6 each for the other two sections. In this mode, the blue full-stop button does not appear to function by hiding/disclosing the top section, though it does scroll it down to the bottom of its current display if not already there. (Hard to describe precisely!) The extra blue area seen below
the k/b in portrait mode is not there in landscape - just as well!I find that some other apps (horrible word, almost as bad as "Brexit") limit the user to portrait mode. Presumably there's a switch you (the developers) could use to limit us
to portrait only.I suppose it would wreck the nice aspect ratios, but is there any scope to make the k/b
re-sizeable?
Talking about fat fingers, if I type explicitly, in the terminal screen,
a =: 1 2 3 [return] NB. ie with a number of leading spaces
and later swipe to recover that line, the leading spaces disappear.
This was a feature in
earlier iOS J versions, and was so annoying if one needed to edit that
line, as it's difficult
to get the cursor to the left of "a" .OK - I just tried it and the cursor _did_ go there without much trouble, but it still seems gratuitous to remove the leading blanks if I'd deliberately typed them in the first place.
Sorry for this haphazard list of reactions. Perhaps it will help a bit! Lovely to have J available at all. Oh for APL as well... Thanks, Mike On 05/07/2017 14:23, Eric Iverson wrote:
I think I see the problem you report with landscape. Everything is working as intended, but the html view (where ? and plots are displayed) is not seen because the screen is taken up with the keyboard and log area. There just isn't enough vertical space. Please run J again in landscape and dismiss the keyboard (black triangle at the bottom of the keyboard). You should then see the html view.I don't think there is a problem once you know what is happening. But as a first experience it is not good! Not a priority to fix right away, but I will think about what to do. I think the previous version automatically dismissed the keyboard in landscape mode so that you would see the html view, but that can be a nuisance for general use. Please confirm that J works properly (as described here) on your device or if you still think there is a problem. (The problem is partly because the J kb is so big and it is big because my fingers are fat and my eye sight isn't what it once was.) On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:02 AM, 'Mike Day' via Programming < programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote:Oh! I rotated the screen, so moving from landscape to portrait, and (A) saw an introductory display rather than a fairly small blank area, And (b) a functioning "?" "button" Sorry, I prefer l/scape most of the time. Prepared to use Portrait, but shouldn't landscape work too? Thanks again, Mike Please reply to mike_liz....@tiscali.co.uk. Sent from my iPadOn 5 Jul 2017, at 07:54, 'Mike Day' via Programming <programm...@jsoftware.com> wrote:Early try-out on iPad, iOS 10.3.2 :- the "?" "Button" appears not to work, not with my finger-jabbing, atleast...Thanks, Mike Please reply to mike_liz....@tiscali.co.uk. Sent from my iPadOn 5 Jul 2017, at 01:42, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com> wrote: A significant new release of J iOS is available at the Apple App Store. See http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Guides/iOS for more information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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