Re: [Jgeneral] Form Editor & wd commands
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 it
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
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
>
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
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