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Linda -----Original Message----- From: programming-boun...@jsoftware.com [mailto:programming-boun...@jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Don Guinn Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 8:32 AM To: Programming forum Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] JHS plot and addon problems in both JHS and GTK The line between users and the product is blurred now, but demos should work out of the box on an unmodified J install. They can require addons like plot to be installed or other system tools, but they should tell the user specifically what is needed and not crash. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:57 PM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > ~Demos should be added by users themselves, but in order to help noob, that > shortcut was included in standard installation. > > Please add ~Demos pointing to ~addons/demos if that shortcut is > un-available in your installation, other than that, the help section in > jhelp should already give very clear procedures of how to use plot in jhs. > > Вск, 04 Дек 2011, Don Guinn писал(а): > > Plot looking really good. > > > > A few problems I ran into. First, the demos use several definitions that > > are created when J6 plot is loaded but not in J7. They are: sin, cos, > step > > and range. > > > > Second, for some reason I don't have ~Demos defined. I defined ~Demos to > be > > 'c:/j701/addons/graphics' but the load still failed. For some reason > > plotdemos.ijs is in 'c:/js01/addons/graphics/plot/demo', not where the > load > > expects it to be. In addition, I have a directory in bin called '~Demos' > > which contains a gtk directory. I probably need to start over from > scratch > > reloading all of J; however, the name '~Demos' bothers me. The first > letter > > being capitalized makes me think that it should be defined in > > UserFolders_j_. But things supplied as part of J should be in > > SystemFolders_j_ and there should be no assumptions as to the contents of > > UserFolders_j_. > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:49 AM, bill lam <bbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I guess your version of jhs was out-dated. The related message inside > > > current jhelp reads, > > > > > > Use JAL to be sure following required addons are installed: > > > <pre class="jcode"> > > > graphics/plot > > > graphics/afm > > > demos/plot > > > general/misc > > > math/misc > > > </pre> > > > > > > Learn about plot with the following examples. Detailed info at the > wiki. > > > <pre class="jcode"> > > > require 'plot numeric trig' > > > plot 10?10 > > > load '~Demos/plot/plotdemos.ijs' NB. more than 50 demos > > > plotdemos 0 > > > plotdef 'show';200 100 > > > plotdemos 1 > > > plotdef 'show';600 300 NB. jhsshow width height > > > plotdemos 3 > > > plotdef 'link';600 450 NB. jhslink > > > plotdemos 10 > > > plotdef 'link';400 200 > > > plotdemos 25 > > > plotdef 'none';600 300 NB. create ~temp/plot.html without show or > link > > > plotdef 30 > > > plotdef 'show';600 300 NB. jhsshow > > > plotdemos 54 > > > </pre> > > > > > > Вск, 04 Дек 2011, Fraser Jackson писал(а): > > > > Note 'How do we load addons?' > > > > > > > > The instructions for plotting in JHS say > > > > > > > > Install JAL graphics/plot graphics/afm and demos/plot > > > > > > > > Does this mean install them and load them? > > > > > > > > It then suggests you learn from > > > > > > > > load '~addons/ide/jhs/jplotdemo.ijs' jplot > > > > > > > > What does this mean since it is clearly not a J sentence. > > > > > > > > When I attempt this a possible sentence from the line I get the > message > > > > > > > > load '~addons/ide/jhs/jplotdemo.ijs' > > > > not found: c:/users/fraser/j701/addons/ide/jhs/jplotdemo.ijs > > > > |file name error: script > > > > | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > > > > > > > > > > > > That file does not exist on my system. > > > > > > > > JVERSION > > > > Engine: j701/2011-01-10/11:25 > > > > Library: 7.01.051 > > > > Platform: Win 32 > > > > Installer: j701a_win.exe > > > > InstallPath: c:/users/fraser/j701 > > > > > > > > > > > > There seems to be a more general problem loading addons. > > > > > > > > load 'general/misc' > > > > not found: C:\Users\Fraser\j701/general/misc/misc > > > > |file name error: script > > > > | 0!:0 y[4!:55<'y' > > > > > > > > I would like to get into helping test the graphics, but I need clear > > > > instructions as to how to start, and a working addon system. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > For information about J forums see > http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > > > regards, > > > ==================================================== > > > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > > > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
