The wiki page that you followed was written J602 wd commands. Jqt wd
commands adopted a similar but different syntax. J602 set command always
sets the 'text' property and is implied, but Jqt needs the explicit 'text'
because it can also set other properties, see wiki wd commands reference.
J602:
wd 'set strength *entropy ',(":<.(".size)*2^.#alph),' bits'
Jqt
wd 'set text strength *entropy ',(":<.(".size)*2^.#alph),' bits'
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On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:06 AM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone use the JQt environment for J much? I'm taking a stab at
> updating and extending the code here:
> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Andrew_Nikitin/Literate .
>
> I want to see how suitable I find J for developing a GUI app. Now that
> I've started, I'm starting to wonder if I should have started with a
> web-based front-end instead but I thought it might be easier to start from
> something which presumably worked at some point.
>
> That aside, I'm finding it painful to use the JQt interface compared to my
> normal custom of running J under emacs. I feel I have to use JQt because
> of the GUI component. I think I once got some GUI-based code working under
> emacs but that was years ago and would be too much of a distraction from my
> immediate project.
>
> You can see what I've done so far here:
> https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/NYCJUG/2021-11-09#What_I_Have_So_Far .
> This just brings up the initial window; none of the buttons work except the
> one to cancel the dialog.
>
> Anyway, for really simple things I do in emacs, like recalling the previous
> command, it is not obvious how I would do this in JQt. At the moment, I'm
> working mostly in emacs and loading my code into JQt, so this may have to
> be how I deal with it but I'm interested in other people's experience
> working with JQt.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Devon
>
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>
> Devon McCormick, CFA
>
> Quantitative Consultant
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