I fully agree with you that such a facility would be important to have. I usually create .bat file in such cases because of this lack of .exe creation.
I have now also rexx and python as well as Dyalog APL and am thinking of using those. Dyalog APL allows you to create .exe in exactly the way I would like to create J .exe In Dyalog APL you export your application and it creates a .exe executable. 2009/2/9 Hahn, Harvey <[email protected]> > I have some statistical "massagers" written in J that I'd like to wrap > in user-friendly "envelopes" for nonprogrammer end-users. The end > result can't be much more difficult than double-clicking an icon on the > desktop (or using an assigned keystroke to do the same thing)--or > something just as easy--and then, say, filling in a textbox or two with > some filenames or such. > > Since J scripts can't be compiled, I can't create an executable, which > would be the easy way. It appears I'll have to use another scripting > language (with the characteristics I'm looking for) to call J in some > way. I can't ask users to start up J, load a script, and run it--that's > too geeky for nongeeks (and they would never use the application!). > > I know many of you have written successful J applications that are being > used commercially, privately, or whatever. How do *you* go about > accomplishing what I'm asking? How do you make a J application easily > usable by a person "off the street", that is, by nonprogrammers? What > tips/advice do you have about writing J apps for the "real" world? (I'm > thinking here primarily of a front page that's a GUI, whether it's in J > or in another language that calls J.) > > This is really important to me right now, both because I have some > in-house apps that need such an "envelope" and because I need to > demonstrate the ease of making user-friendly J apps available in a > conference presentation later this spring to a group of computer > knowledgeable library staff, many of whom can program. > > Please, this is not a time to be terse. ;-) Thanks in advance for your > advice and insights! > > Harvey > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fugl&Fiskur ehf, Þerneyjarsundi 23, Hraunborgum Po Box 127,801 Selfoss , t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 Landslags og skrúðgarðagerð, gröfuþjónusta http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
