Re: [Jgeneral] Form Editor & wd commands

2023-04-16 Thread bill lam
You can try the jnet frontend which uses the legacy wd commands. The j602 form scripts can be run directly or with minor changes. Jnet ide addon can be installed via jal. It runs on windows only. You can play with the demo. On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 at 9:09 PM adam dunne wrote: > I am an old fan of

Re: [Jgeneral] Form Editor & wd commands

2023-04-16 Thread Henry Rich
IIRC dissect runs on 6.02 and 9.4. You can look at it for examples of how to migrate. Henry Rich On Sun, Apr 16, 2023, 10:21 AM chris burke wrote: > The main benefit of the J6 form editor was that it made it easy to lay > out controls. Each control needed a position and size, given as xywh >

Re: [Jgeneral] Form Editor & wd commands

2023-04-16 Thread chris burke
The main benefit of the J6 form editor was that it made it easy to lay out controls. Each control needed a position and size, given as xywh values, and it would have been tedious to create and update those values manually. J8 wd uses Qt which has its own layout manager. We no longer give xywh

[Jgeneral] Form Editor & wd commands

2023-04-16 Thread adam dunne
I am an old fan of J who stuck with J602 because of theForm Editor when it was dropped in J7 & later updates. I have now returned to using J after a long absence. Installed J 9.4 two days ago. Frankly I find wd cmds bewildering & would far prefer to use the old Form Editor. However I note J602 is