---Leigh J. Halliwell wrote: > I've been passing data between Excel and J with the clipboard. But I > know that J has excellent input and reporting features. I might > use J for some spreadsheet work, if I could only understand grids. > I've looked in the labs and demos, as well as on Wiki, but they are > all to complicated or condensed. > I like the pace of the old "User Manual," but that was for Release 3. > > Is there something like that for teaching me about arrays and grids?
The old User Manual was before my time but I suspect that the answer to your question is "no". I found the best solution for trying to understand grid, was to study examples of use. The demo gave me a good idea of available functionality and what some of the options did, but I found the way it is implemented obscured how to actually use the grid in an application. The best simple examples of using the Grid that I know of are on this wiki page: <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Grid/Class> Other examples that I found useful were the browser.ijs script in the SQLite addon, and the csvedit addon. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
