Hi there, Being the main Calculate developer, I don't agree on your opinion about Calculate. I think it deserves to be a separate activity. It's true that it was a little underdeveloped lately, but that was mainly because I was on a (long) holiday. The last couple of days have produced major improvements in Calculate: tab-completion of variable names, copy-paste, journal support, etc. (not sure if it made it into the build yet, did a release though: http://rwh.corps.nl/Calculate-7.xo). More new features are coming, for example I just started working on a plot() function (an obviously useful extension), which I estimate to be functioning somewhere next week.
There seem to be some performace issues with Calculate on the XO. I haven't been able to profile these yet, but I expect them to be related to the way the application is shared (basic sharing should be functioning). This problem has the highest priority now... The equation parser I wrote isn't perfect yet either, although in general it does a pretty good job at parsing simple as well as more complex expressions. Please file bug reports if you notice weird behavior... Cheers, Reinier PS: And of course everybody who's willing to help out can let me know! Yoshiki Ohshima wrote: > Hello, > > Now, we have Pippy. Into Pippy, the user can type simple > expressions with some mathematical functions there and execute the > expression. This means that there is large overlap between it and > Calculate. Since Calculate is overly under-developed and it has very > complicated interface, we can now think that we have an option to > remove it from the build without causing too much grief. > > Imagine if Pippy has a button called "Print!", which would be > located right next to the "Run!" button. And, if "Print!" prints out > the results of running the program into the bottom pane, that is > pretty much all we need. (For the record, the workspace in Etoys has > been there from day one for this purpose.) > > Some small input assistance may be a plus but having the software > keyboard for numbers is not a good idea anyway. > > We have a real problem of shortage of man-power, so replacing > smaller activities that take more time to maintain and document with > more powerful ones is probably a good thing. > > What do you think? > > -- Yoshiki > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
