Thanks. I had a look - downloading and installing the "App"
Normally, as you know, we invoke J-console in Windows by running the
standard terminal from the shortcut on the Windows desktop.
I don't yet see how to make a shortcut in Windows' desktop to run
j-console in "WindowsTerminal" :
I've discovered that this command can be used to invoke WindowsTerminal
in a batch file or a shortcut:
explorer.exe
shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App
but it would be useful to have jconsole start up within WindowsTerminal.
I hope there might be a way of adding C:\....\j903-beta\jconsole.cmd as
an argument to the shell command above.
Meanwhile, doing it the slow way: ie
start WindowsTerminal, change directory to the J installation, run
jconsole.cmd,
your first demo worked fine; however, the mandelbrot graphic was not
complete; the lower half
was corrupted: I think some lines were lost.
Cheers,
Mike
On 26/07/2021 20:42, Michal Wallace wrote:
Microsoft's console has traditionally been limited to 16 colors. Some time
ago they decided to support a wider range of features that make it work
more like xterm on Linux. It also gives you 24 bit color and multiple
console tabs on the same window.
You can get it for free from the Microsoft store. I believe it requires at
least windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal/9n0dx20hk701?rtc=1#activetab=pivot:overviewtab
On Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 2:30 PM 'Michael Day' via Programming <
[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks.
Your "readme" file says:
* Note:*on windows, you need the stock|jconsole.exe|that comes with
J,/and/you need to run it through the"new" Windows terminal
<https://github.com/microsoft/terminal>.
The ' "new" Windows terminal ' is indeed news to me. I realise you
provide a link to " https://github.com/microsoft/terminal ",
but what does that do, how do we use it, is there a downside? - is all
this common knowledge?
Cheers,
Mike
On 26/07/2021 16:38, Michal Wallace wrote:
The initial version of the 'j-kvm' terminal driver is here:
https://github.com/tangentstorm/j-kvm
It provides keyboard, video, and mouse support for console mode
applications on windows and linux, (and maybe OSX, if anyone with a mac
cares to test it...<g>)
It kind of does what ncurses does (let you make interactive console
applications),
but the API is closer to the old "turbo vision" style from turbo pascal.
There is also a submodule for working with video buffers as arrays and
then
rendering them with terminal escape codes, as well as a little framework
for mapping each keypress to its own verb in an event loop.
It's still kind of a work in progress, so suggestions/patches/bug reports
are very welcome.
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