I have been telling people about APL/J since 1972 One of the key questions I get after I give a demo is "Can I make an executable file?"
I have never been able to answer that question with a "Yes you can" I know I can create a Pif file I know I can create a shell script - In Linux - and make it executable That does not really give me the right to say "Yes you can"? I can answer "Yes you can make a script which calls J and passes to it a script and bla bla bla" I would love to have a utility in J that allows me to create a file like this: a) 'j -jijx system\examples\graphics\plot\plotdemo.ijs' fwrite 'c:\j601\plot.bat' Or better still: b) 'j -jijx system\examples\graphics\plot\plotdemo.ijs' fwrite 'c:\j601\plot.exe' It is possible that I am being naive It has been possible to write the line like a) above for a long time and it has worked very well and I have written quite a few such lines Still I am not comfortable of answering the simple little question with a "yes you can" because neither a) nor b) is a utility in J People complain anyway about a) because that it is a .bat and not a .exe and also that it is not a J utility So I am not asking for this for a simple reason it seems to be a very real initial problem for many many people If they know from the beginning they can not create an executeable then they are not interested and they look no further ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Oleg Kobchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27.9.2006 07:20 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] APLNext To: General forum <[email protected]> Why would anyone want to create such EXE file which just starts a J application? And what such EXE file would do exactly? Most EXE files are not started by double-clicking the EXE file directly. Instead a Shortcut is placed on the Start menu, Desktop, etc. It is very easy to create such a shortcut for your application. Here is how to make a shortcut for the Plot demo: * right-click Start, select Explore * go to: All Users\Start Menu\Programs\J * create a copy (not shortcut) of the J 601 icon and rename it to Plot * Right-click, select Properties * In the Target line add (separating with space): -jijx system\examples\graphics\plot\plotdemo.ijs * Click OK. Close the Explorer Now on the Start menu under J you have a Plot stand-alone application. This could be automated in a simple script. --- Björn Helgason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It would be good to have a utility to create a .exe file in Windows which does what you do in a .bat file today to call j with a script that starts
an
j application It seems like many people want to ask the question can I create a .exe
file
to start a j application It would be nice to be able to answer yes rather than explain well yes you can call it from language xxx using the j.dll or ... .... you can create a .bat file to start j application bla bla bla... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
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