Our official focus now is the j7 beta with the new GTK and JHS front ends. Although jwdw and jwdp (j.exe and j.jar) will continue to be supported in J7, labs and applications that are specific to wd are less of a priority. Of course, if someone provided an improved lab that was tested across all platforms, it would certainly be included as part of official web site distributions.
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Brian Schott <[email protected]>wrote: > I have been going through the Form Editor Lab on my > Mac and have been finding a few things that don't seem > correct. And before I get involved in mentioning these > issues, let me say that the Lab is very good and I greatly > appreciate its functionality. I especially liked the design > of the Lab that allows me to ignore its suggestion to name > the form `dice` and choose my own name > > Lesson 4 of 37 states the following, which suggests > that Esc closes the `view` form, but later we are told that > the view button on the design form produces a form, which is > not closed by Esc. What's up with that? > > Furthermore, the `view button` form is totally inert > afaik: clicking on it anywhere except the buttons in the > frame does nothing. So what good is it except to remove the > grid marks that are in the original design form? Only typing > dice_run'' in the .ijx window after loading the .ijs form > script produces a live -- as opposed to inert -- form for > me. > > -- (4 of 37) Run Button > ------------------------------------- > You can try out this form, by clicking the View button in the > Design dialog. This displays the form as it will appear when > you run it normally. The grid marks are not shown. > > Press Esc to close the view form. > ) > > Lesson 12 of 37 states the following, which suggests > that the ijs window will be opened after Ctrl-clicking on > the graphic rectangle for closing the form. On my Mac I > think it does that, but I lose the cursor in the ijs window: > I no longer see the cursor until I click somewhere in the > ijs window to make it reappear at the clicked position. > > -- (12 of 37) Event Handlers > -------------------------------- > Event handlers are functions that respond to events on the > form. The form created so far has only event handlers for > form close and for the Cancel button. To view the definition > for the Cancel button, hold down the Ctrl key, and click on > the dice form Cancel button. The script window you > originally > opened is displayed, with the cursor at the following entry: > > dice_cancel_button=: 3 : 0 > dice_close '' > ) > ) > > Lesson 14 of 37 states the following, which suggests > that the ijs window will be opened after Ctrl-clicking on > the Ok rectangle of for the form. On my Mac I think it does > that, but, again, I lose the cursor > > -- (14 of 37) Event Handlers (ctd) > -------------------------- > Now let us try writing a program to handle a click on the OK > button. > > Hold down the Ctrl key, and click on the dice form OK > button. > The script window is now opened at the following entry: > > dice_ok_button=: 3 : 0 > ) > ) > > Lesson 15 of 37 states the following, which suggests > that Cancel will return me to the Design dialog. It does > that if I click Cancel or tab to it and the hit the space > bar. So far so good. > > The result I want of being able to use a key > press to close the form, does not work with the > original verb definitions, below. > > dice_close=: 3 : 0 > wd'pclose' > ) > > dice_cancel_button=: 3 : 0 > dice_close'' > ) > > > -- (16 of 37) Event Handlers (ctd) > -------------------------- > After this is entered, load the script, and run the program > by entering: > > dice_run'' > > Click OK, then Cancel to return to the Design dialog. > ) > > These may be Mac problems, but I would like for them > to be corrected for the next release, please. > > -- > > (B=) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
