The J Playground continues to develop into a fun way to play with J. A few exciting features have been added. Most of our activity is happening on github so I thought the broader community would enjoy an update.
Thank you to the expanding list of contributors - chris burke and razetime for development, paul jackson for testing, and the core wiki/J playground team including raul and bob and others https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Playground is a wiki page about the J Playground https://jsoftware.github.io/j-playground/bin/html2 is the direct link to the J Playground Updates: 1. Addons that are hosted on github and have no binary dependencies can be installed. Check out the "Addons" example to get started. This example will continue to evolve and ideas are welcome - ( https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/71). All core addons already exist on github and we're making it easier to install those too with the traditional jpkg facility - ( https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/64) 2. User Interfaces can be constructed using the built-in J Playground popup. Check out the "UI" Example for a simple demo. I'm excited to see where the community takes this and would appreciate any other examples of the addons or UI (https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/71) 3. The labs have been improved by adding the lab title in the labs menu instead of the lab path (thanks razetime) ( https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/59) as well as outputting the lab text in a more user friendly way ( https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/68). 4. Context sensitive help should be working now and other numerous improvements to the code organization and J Playground UI (thanks chris burke). On the roadmap: 1. Save and restore editor contents to a new Editor Log ( https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/66) 2. Dark theme (https://github.com/jsoftware/j-playground/issues/57) 3. Migrate over to a cleaner / permanent link (drop the /bin/html2) 4. Your ideas (reply here or add a github issue) Thanks everyone Joe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
