Bob, I think your addon can be rather valuable, here are a few remarks. First of all, my system hung the first time after I did 'v t8' just before Ctrl J to advance, which apparently also did this. I had to cancel J with the task manager (Win10, J805). After restarting the Lab and jumping to chapter 6, three times Ctrl J brought me tot End of Lab, which was not my intention. And I got other hang ups in different circumstances, but I'm sorry to have no time to test it.
The fact that the display of Jig is such that I always have to use the sidebars is a nuisance IMO, perhaps you could locate the pop-up screens at the right hand side or enlarge the initial screen. But what bothers me most is that you shift to much work to me as a user: I have to remember color codes for the different data types (and other mnemonics which I already forgot ...!) This is a problem which is not unusual. Whereas computers are designed to make life easier, the contrary is achieved (for example you are often requested to use passwords with a lot of non-letters, whereas a long sentence which is easy to remember for humans is a much better password, see also https://xkcd.com/936/). So, to be more specific, in the example of t1, why don’t you display 1b; 2; 3j0; 4.0; 5x; 6r1 to indicate the Boolean, integer, complex, floating, extended and rational number? The only 'problem' is that 1b is an ill-formed number in J, where the others are not, but within the scope of your addon that seems acceptable. Well, just my 2 cents. R.E. Boss > -----Original Message----- > From: Programming [mailto:programming-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com] > On Behalf Of robert therriault > Sent: vrijdag 28 juli 2017 22:15 > 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
