Thanks, David. When I said "AFAIK there's no comparable way of calling dylibs in Darwin" I guess I meant in the add-on-supported way of 'dll'. I'm busy studying these...
http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Interfaces/Xcode http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Interfaces/JTask which don't, as they stand, fill my needs, but are getting close. Plus: they may suit me in other contexts. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:45 PM, David Mitchell <davidmitch...@att.net> wrote: > You are welcome, Ian. > > I am a bit curious about J support for dylibs. I currently do not have any > way > to try it myself, but the J DLL documentation does say: > > J can call procedures that are compiled in a shared library file. In Windows > these files are called DLLs (dynamic link libraries) and have a .dll > extension. > In Linux they are called shared libraries or shared objects and have a .so > extension. In Mac they are called dynamic libraries and have a .dylib > extension. > The term DLL is used here for all platforms. A procedure in a DLL is called by > its name and filename. > > It is true that there may not be dylib functionality for Darwin that matches > what Windows has for timer usage, but I saw a function > "dispatch_source_set_timer" in the GCD reference from Apple that seemed as if > it > might be a start. > > On 1/5/2012 12:54, Ian Clark wrote: >> Thanks, David. >> >> But this uses 'dll'. AFAIK there's no comparable way of calling dylibs >> in Darwin. >> >> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:44 PM, David Mitchell<davidmitch...@att.net> wrote: >>> Here is a version that works with J602 and J701 jconsole. It does not work >>> with >>> jhs or jgtk. I have not tested it extensively and it may have side effects >>> or >>> bugs that I haven't found yet. >>> >>> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts/WindowsTimer >>> >>> On 1/5/2012 8:27, Ian Clark wrote: >>>> How do I get a timer in j701 jhs (or jconsole)? >>>> >>>> I've been assuming wd (11!:0) doesn't work at all in j701 (in j602 >>>> you'd do: 11!:0 'timer 3' for a callback in 3 secs). >>>> >>>> BTW J701 help (http://www.jsoftware.com/docs/help701/dictionary/dx011.htm) >>>> still refers to 11!:0 but I assume that's just because it's been >>>> overlooked...? >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
