[Jprogramming] Plot broken again?

J. Patrick Harrington jph at astro.umd.edu
Sun Dec 9 04:45:14 UTC 2012


  Will image3 work on a PC? I'd be very much dissapointed if all
that interesting material in Cliff's book is no longer accessable.

On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, bill lam wrote:
> image3 depends on binary dll/so/dylib shipped with the addons.  I guess
> the problem would be the binary is 32-bit only, but J is 64-bit. Another
> possibility is the osx 10.6.8 (lion?) can not load ppc binaries,
>
> libimage3.dylib: Mach-O dynamically linked shared library ppc
>
> I tried and found that the source for iamge3 binary cannot be 
> compiled with the current debian tool-chain.  Not sure for Mac.
>
>
> Сбт, 08 Дек 2012, J. Patrick Harrington писал(а):
>> 
>> On Sun, 9 Dec 2012, bill lam wrote:
>> >I'm sorry for that!
>> >
>> >The base library and some graphics addons have to be amended for the
>> >new Qt front-ent which Chris will announce later.  The addons are
>> >update but the base library need to wait for Chris to build and release.
>> >In the mean time please type
>> >
>> >IFQT_z_=: 0
>> >
>> >or add it to your profile.ijs/startup.ijs
>>
>>   That works for me now.
>>
>>   By the way, I'm trying to remember the status of the "image3"
>> lab/addon. The lab doesn't produce error messages but displays
>> no images (in j701. in j602 I get "error in: jijs_labadvance_button
>>  domain error:cd  a=. 'jpeg_get_info + i*c*i*i*i*i'zjm(<y),(&.>;/4#0
>> 
>> I've a bit of time and want to work through some of Clif Reiter's
>> book "Fractals Visualization and J". I remember some discussion
>> about image3, but don't recall the current status.
>>
>>                                                  Patrick
>> 
>> >
>> >Сбт, 08 Дек 2012, J. Patrick Harrington писал(а):
>> >>
>> >>I visited pacman and there were updates, so I installed them.
>> >>Now 'plot' is broken. This is version j701/2011-01-10/11:25
>> >>running on a Mac OS 10.6.8. The error message is
>> >>
>> >>   load'plot'
>> >>|control error: script
>> >>|       3 :0''
>> >>|[-26] /Users/jph/j701/addons/graphics/gl2/gl2.ijs
>> >>
>> >>Any idea what's going on? or how I can walk this back to a working
>> >>version?
>> >>
>> >>                                      Patrick
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