That looks like the neatest way to get the handle for the ijx window!

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 6:28 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, smclear will break if some numbered locales are created during boot,
> eg, inside startup.ijs
>
> there is a verb wdforms'' which can return all windows created by wd, t
> hen pick the ijx for smclear.
>
>
> Вск, 03 Апр 2011, Ian Clark писал(а):
>> Thanks, Bill,
>>
>> I note what you don't say -- that there's a verb for it already.
>>
>> There's a boolean flag IFIJX in all the numbered locales I've
>> examined. But I guess it'll only be defined for locales with
>> COCREATOR-: <'jijs' . However, a try. / catch. should safely discover
>> the locale with IFIJX=1.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:12 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I'm not sure if that is fragile. You may use
>> > 18!:1[1 to get all numbered locales, and then use 'jijx'-:>@{.@(18!:2) to 
>> > test
>> > if that locale is jijx.  (untest)
>> >
>> >
>> > Сбт, 02 Апр 2011, Ian Clark писал(а):
>> >> I want to commence a test script like this:
>> >>
>> >> smclear ''
>> >> clear ''
>> >>
>> >> where 'clear' is of course the library verb to delete all words in
>> >> locale 'base'.
>> >>
>> >> My suggested verb 'smclear' would empty the J602 session window IJX to
>> >> commence a fresh log of events.
>> >>
>> >> Browsing locale 'jijs' suggests the following should work --and indeed it 
>> >> does:
>> >>
>> >> smclear=: 3 : 0
>> >> wd 'psel ',SMHWNDP_0_
>> >> wd 'set e ""'
>> >> )
>> >>
>> >> but it looks rather fragile to me, since it relies on locale 0
>> >> governing the IJX window.
>> >>
>> >> Is there a better way? Is there a library verb to do the job?
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