[Jprogramming] Drawing program in J?

[Eric Iverson]

wd and gl2 are both fully portable across all platforms. If you are 
running ./jw on your Mac everything you see is with wd and gl2 
(including all the demos for plot, grid, etc). The gl2 labs should work 
there as well.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronan Reilly" <ronan at cs.nuim.ie>
To: "Programming forum" <programming at jsoftware.com>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 4:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Drawing program in J?


> Thanks Oleg.  This is really helpful.
>
> I'm running J on a Mac (601p beta under OS X 10.4).  I'm assuming that 
> wd
> calls do not work in this environment.  Is there an alternative?
>
> Ronan
>
>
> On 21/08/2006 01:35, "Oleg Kobchenko" <olegykj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> That's an interesting project.
>> See a prototype of diagram drawing with J
>>
>>    http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Scripts/Diagram
>>
>> You might be looking for something similar to
>> what the BlueJ project does:
>>
>>   http://www.bluej.org/
>>
>>
>> --- Ronan Reilly <ronan at cs.nuim.ie> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm planning to write a drawing program that needs to communicate 
>>> with J.
>>> Functionally, the programme is intended to be a tool for creating 
>>> something
>>> like UML diagrams (boxes, arrows, and some code generation). 
>>> Actually, the
>>> form editor seems to have some of the functionality I need.
>>>
>>> Ideally I'd like to be able to do it all in J, but it's unclear to 
>>> me from
>>> the form and openGL documentation how easy this would be.  For 
>>> example,
>>> would I be better off using, say, Tcl/Tk or Perl/Tk for the graphics 
>>> and
>>> communicating to the JE via sockets?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions/advice would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Ronan
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