Re: [sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-02-02 Thread Andy Somogyi
On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Ivan Andrus wrote: > On Jan 31, 2010, at 10:29 PM, Andy Somogyi wrote: > >> Hello All >> >> Here is a link to a prototype sage desktop app for the Mac. >> >> http://numerator.sourceforge.net/SageApp.dmg >> >> This i

[sage-devel] Prototype Sage Desktop App

2010-01-31 Thread Andy Somogyi
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.

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Sage Web Service / UI

2010-01-29 Thread Andy Somogyi
ry. 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: >

Re: [sage-devel] Sage Web Service / UI

2010-01-28 Thread Andy Somogyi
> > Just a quick clarification. > > 1. Are you planning to do the above and you just want feedback, or > > 2. Do you want somebody else to do the above, and you're just > suggesting it as a possible project? > > William Mostly feedback, but if others think this is a good idea, then starting

[sage-devel] Sage Web Service / UI

2010-01-28 Thread Andy Somogyi
html / javascript files for the UI, the app would then just fork a process to start the sage webservice, and viola, or even connect to a remote sage web service. On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:48 PM, William Stein wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Robert Bradshaw > wrote: >> >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Ideas about improving sage desktop app

2010-01-15 Thread Andy Somogyi
away in favor of PySide one of these days so much of >>> the Qt-Python world is unsettled and not as much progress is made as >>> folks watch and see. >>> >>> OTOH, having VTK integrated more closely with Sage would be great for >>> many things. VTK

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Ideas about improving sage desktop app

2010-01-11 Thread Andy Somogyi
to deal > with. The Mayavi TvTk wrappers make it much more manageable but is in > various stages of completeness. It relies heavily on Traits which I'm > not fully up to speed on yet. > >> >> And of course, any help is needed :) We could build a good replacement >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: Ideas about improving sage desktop app

2010-01-08 Thread Andy Somogyi
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 (

[sage-devel] Ideas about improving sage desktop app

2010-01-08 Thread Andy Somogyi
Hello I'm interested in improving the sage desktop app, in general. I'm thinking about a creating front end that feels similar to Mathematica. This can be accomplished with a webkit based application. This approach can completely eliminate the need for a web server, and allow python direct acce