I'm putting together a quick and dirty app, that basically consists of a form which holds a WebKit widget, and the main process just forks, and initiates the Sage process, and hooks the WebKit view up to it. Should be ready this weekend. Its super simple, but its a start.
Its tiny, a few 100K, and completely native. It literally took ONE SINGLE line of code to hook up the webkit view to the Sage server. I'm just cleaning up up the forking a bit which is a tad more complex, but will probably be around 10 - 20 lines or so. Then, the entire sage directory can just be copied into the .app directory, and will look and feel and run like a standard app. Also, there is NO ADDITIONAL DEPENDENCIES, WebKit is a library that is standard on OSX, and any Linux distro that has KDE. Safari is just a simple app that hosts the WebKit widget. FYI, how Mac applications are structured is each application is a special directory, which ends in .app. This directory contains the executable, icons, property lists, configuration, and whatever else the developer wants to shove in it (like the whole sage distribution). This way, the whole directory just looks like a single app to the end user. I don't do Windows (anymore), but I'm sure someone out there is a C# person who could whip up a Windows equivalent in a few hours, i.e. take the WebKit or Firefox ActiveX control, and drop it on a form, hook up the process bits, and package it up into a directory. The other HUGE thing that HTML5 gives is interactivity, so its fully capable of having the same kind of interactivity that Mathematica 6+ has with the 'Manipulate' function. On Jan 29, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Ivan Andrus wrote: > On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:21 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > >> Andy Somogyi wrote: >>> Hi All >>> This was originally a discussion of how to make Sage a better desktop app. >> >> I've wondered what the possibility was of making a Firefox extension that >> customized firefox to be an all-in-one Sage app. I think Firefox extensions >> can modify the "chrome" of the browser, at least if they are given the >> appropriate permissions to do so. > > It should be possible. Last time I looked at Prism (probably almost 2 years > ago) I couldn't even figure out how to build it, though to be honest I didn't > try very hard since I don't really like Firefox. With a little hacking on a > prebuilt version (replacing the binary with a script which called the > original binary) I was able to get something that sort of worked (i.e. it > started up the sage -notebook in the background). > > -Ivan > > http://prism.mozilla.com/ > > -- > 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 -- 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
