@ Robert : Great add-on ! Can I add a wishlist for Christmas?
1) Could this be combined with the Dissect add-on ? http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/Dissect 2) @ "Those who know J innards" : how hard would it be to add unicode as valid characters for identifiers? Permitting things like √ =: %: (if the character before =: doesn't appear correctly in your browser, it's the square root symbol http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/221a/index.htm) On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Ian Clark <earthspo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great concept, Bob. > > Just watching your YouTube makes me wonder why we persist in using a tty > paradigm from the 1960s for conversational use of J – which we like to > think of as an advanced language. Perhaps we just like playing Mastermind > with ourselves when we play with J? It shows us how smart we are. :-P > > It's no longer true that all this good stuff is too expensive to compute > for every line of input. Every line of operational code, maybe. But far > more than the basic "tty" paradigm comes for free with Mathematica – and > has done for the last 20 years. Where've we been all that time? > > Actually you've beaten me to it. But I guess I will still complete my toy > "tty++", because I think it will help to have the session window > immediately display the missing information you correctly identify, without > the user needing to go asking for it. > > I find myself using my "crex" utility so often I'd like my session manager > to routinely crex every phrase I enter. You might consider adding crex to > Jig, or something like it. Example: > > z > This is a line of text. > This is another. > > zz > This is a line of text. > This is another. > > zzz > This is a line of text. > This is another. > > crex z > 'This is a line of text.',LF,'This is another.',LF > crex zz > 3 23$'This is a line of text.This is another. > ' > crex zzz > 3 25$'This is a line of text. This is another. > ' > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 10:40 PM, robert therriault <bobtherria...@mac.com > > > wrote: > > > Whoops, I left my test file hooked up. I have updated and it should run > > now, when it has been updated through the package manager. > > > > Thanks Tom, I really appreciate the heads up on that one. > > > > Cheers, bob > > > > > On Jul 28, 2017, at 1:55 PM, Tom Arneson <t...@tomarneson.com> wrote: > > > > > > Bob, When I tried jig, I got the following error. > > > > > > load'debug/jig' > > > not found: C:/users/bobtherriault/j64-806-user/projects/enhanced/ > run.ijs > > > |file name error: script > > > | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Programming [mailto:programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] On > > Behalf Of robert therriault > > > Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 15:15 > > > To: Programming forum <programm...@jsoftware.com> > > > Subject: [Jprogramming] Jig - an augmented display for jqt in j805 and > > j806 > > > > > > Greetings everyone, > > > > > > I have just completed uploading a new addon that I have named Jig. It > > takes the standard J text display and upgrades it to an interactive SVG > > display that allows quick access to type and shape and a host of other > > information about the results of J sentences. > > > > > > I have posted a short video (1 minute) demo here: > > https://youtu.be/dK1y_V07214 > > > > > > Once you have updated using Package Manager you should be able to run > it. > > > > > > There is also a lab in the 'debug' category that will check that your > > system is running the full version of the QT ide required for web > displays > > like Jig. > > > > > > I find it most useful when I have assigned a function key to it as > > described in the second last chapter of the lab. Just make sure that > > assigning the function key does not put you in conflict with any start up > > scripts that you may be running. > > > > > > This is my first addon so I hope that I have not made too big a mess of > > things and I look forward to your feedback. > > > > > > Cheers, bob > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
