And yet, wd markup language is quite similar to earlier versions which had nothing to do with qt.
-- Raul On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Dabrowski, Andrew John <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, that will be useful. Are there any examples of drawing with a mouse > on a canvas? > > But I must disagree with your comment about not having to "learn a bunch of > libraries". The wd verb simply passes along strings of qt code. So you must > learn the qt library in order to write an app like this. > > Also I'm pretty sure a similar app could be written in Mathematica in less > than half the number of lines. Have you tried writing this in Python? > > > On 01/09/2018 02:47 PM, Joe Bogner wrote: > > To add some evidence to my opinion -- Here's a simple one that I built a > few years ago: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/User:Joe_Bogner/StockViewer > > I am certainly no expert in J GUI programming, yet I would still be > surprised if a 'better' language at GUI programming yielded significantly > shorter, more clear code, without having to download and learn a bunch of > libraries > > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Joe Bogner > <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Dabrowski, Andrew John < > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Thanks, that was nice. But I don't think anyone actually believes J is > _good_ language for creating GUIs; just a possible one. > > > > > > I've built a few GUIs in J and have had my share of building applications > using the Win32 API, gtk, .NET (winforms and XAML), Visual Basic, java > (desktop and android), TCL/TK, and countless web frameworks. > > I do think J is a good language for creating GUIs. It's simple and > powerful. It reminds me a bit of visual basic with the event handlers with > the power of Qt and the everything that comes along with J. It's one of the > better and more enjoyable options I've used. > > If you haven't tried it, I'd suggest checking out the demos, documentation > and try building a simple app. > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
