Hello All Here is a link to a prototype sage desktop app for the Mac.
http://numerator.sourceforge.net/SageApp.dmg Its 100% native, Cocoa model / view application. On startup, it creates a background process with the sage notebook server, and users can open as many windows as they want to it. It also has a console where it dumps the output of the sage process. As it is a native app, the download is about 100K in size. Its universal binary, I've tested it on Snow Leopard - core 2 duo, and Leopard - G4. Will not work with Tiger. Each window is just hosts a WebKit widget. The first time it is run, it will ask the user for the location of the sage runtime, this will typically be: /Application/sage/sage, this needs to be the actual sage executable script, you can set this with a file chooser dialog. If you want to change it in the future, it is stored in the standard defaults file of USERNAME/Library/Preferences/org.sagemath.Sage.App.plist The sage process takes about 5 - 10 seconds to start, when it starts, the first window will be told to open the localhost:8000 url. This is a first prototype, it has little functionality currently, will probably crash, almost certainly has numerous memory leaks, and is FAR, FAR, FAR from complete, but it is a START. Note, I am very happy to maintain and update this for the long term. Eventually, I want to have something that behaves similarly to the Mathematica desktop, and I think this is certainly possible with a Javascript/HTML5 based UI hosted in a set of WebKit views, and wrapped in a nice Cocoa app. The backed end / server is 100% cross platform, the client fits in nicely with the native desktop. It would be fairly simple for Windows person to come up with a Windows type app like this, and same for Linux / GTK person. So, try it out, let me know what features you would like to see. Where would be a good place to store the source code to this? -- 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
