Thats sort of what I was originally thinking for a first go, but I'm not sure how useful it would be in the long term. What would be pretty quick is to create an app, main view would be a text editor, say use the editor component from smultron, and extend it so you could have mplotlib widgets (mplotlib, with a pdf backend) in the editor.
This approach would be a lot quicker than adding a python empowered DOM to webkit, but would not give anywhere near the functionality, and much of the code would be Mac specific (no problem for me, but not everyone is a Mac user). 3D plots could be handled with google's O3D. Even though O3D is intended as a WebKit plugin, the way it creates language bindings is a bit different (and a lot cleaner) then webkit: O3D has set of idl files that are processed by a set of python scripts to generate language bindings. These scripts are very different then the perl scripts for webkit, and a lot easier to hack. So, its possible to create a python enabled O3D component, and also host this in the editor view. With either route, all the graph drawing code would be python, and would not matter much if the O3D canvas is hosted in WebKit, or an editor view. On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:56 PM, kcrisman wrote: > >>> to Mathematica, and Sage, combined with a native front end would be >>> the trick. >> >> I think you should try. If you can do it, and it works well, and is >> maintainable, then we all win. If the project doesn't work out, >> what's the worst than can happen? You will learn a lot anyways, and >> somebody else can pick up your code later. So go for it! >> > > An interesting more tractable (not for me, sadly) first step would be > to use Interface Builder (on Mac) to embed the Terminal and notebook > more "natively", and/or create a native front end beyond the current > app bundle. This has been done for other programs, for instance there > is (was?) one for Macaulay 2. Though of course it wouldn't > necessarily lead to any usable code for the larger project - just a > thought. > > - kcrisman > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org
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