Since the topic of desktop-based apps for Sage has come up recently on this list, I thought it might be a good time to point out that a very good way to create a desktop-based GUI for Sage is to use one of the open source Java IDEs as a foundation. This is what I did when I created SageIDE a couple of years ago and I have been very pleased with the results.
Of course, when I left the Sage project I renamed SageIDE to MathPiperIDE and converted it to use another CAS as its computation engine, but what I would like to focus on is the benefits of using this approach for creating a Sage desktop app. Here are some of the benefits: - Programmer-quality text editing capabilities. - Programmer-quality search and replace tool. - Edit modes for over 150 file types. - Easy-to-use declarative syntax highlighting extension mechanism. - Error highlighting. - Plugin-based extension mechanism with versioning and dependencies. - Dockable windows for the plugins. - The whole application is extensible using numerous scripting languages. - Solid 2D and 3D graphics capabilities. - Cross platform (runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris). - Many other benefits. Anyway, if anyone is interested in playing with SageIDE/MathPiperIDE to get a feel for what a desktop GUI app for Sage might be like, it can be downloaded from here: http://mathpiper.org Ted -- 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
