The Measure activity is another approach to consider: data collection from multiple sources are shared and displayed in the same visualization space.
-walter On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Eben Eliason <e...@laptop.org> wrote: > 2009/3/23 Jameson Quinn <jameson.qu...@gmail.com>: >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Garrison Benson <benson.garri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Jameson Quinn wrote: >>> > >>> > Implementing a whole spreadsheet is a big enough chore. We do really >>> > care >>> > about collaboration, but I would advise you to limit your ambitions to >>> > something achievable, so worrying too much about collaboration right now >>> > is >>> > not vital. >>> > >>> >>> I don't plan to create a spreadsheet, just a graph/chart tool. Obviously a >>> full-featured spreadsheet (with functions, formulas, etc.) would be great >>> for Sugar, but I think a simple, user-friendly charting activity would be >>> much more feasible and more likely to actually be used in a primary >>> school/middle school environment. (Full spreadsheet applications are >>> pretty >>> daunting to learn.) I was just throwing out the idea of a >>> spreadsheet-style >>> interface as the most obvious (but not necessarily best) type of interface >>> for this kind of program. >> >> OK, understood. I think that you're right, a spreadsheet-style interface is >> best - when you're doing charts by hand, you start with data tables. Still, >> I recommend that you plan your main deliverable as something that is >> polished but without collaboration, and keep collaboration as something that >> you'll work on if you have the time. Collaboration is actually harder to get >> right than formulas, IMO. > > Agreed. I'd simply encourage you to keep future collaboration in > mind, such that large reorganization of the code isn't needed later on > to add it. You might also look into > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Groupthink, which could be a potential > solution to adding collaboration in the long run. > > - Eben > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
