On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 21, 8:47 am, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's hard to watch and not be consumed by envy of his tools.
>> So the challenge is scaling that desire down to my capabilities.
>
> Haha.
>
>> So, can I create a task list which feels aligned with, (at my scale)
>> the advantages he demonstrated.
>
> Yes.  We have to start somewhere.  Probably with a prototype, rather
> than with Leo itself!
>
>> For me it comes back to hooking events.
>
> An interesting point of view.  What I like about the first demo is
> that the events happen in both directions: from the code to pictures,
> and from pictures to code.  Neither direction seems at all easy to me.
>
>> The stuff he demo'd looked like frameworks of event hooks, the keyboard and 
>> mouse watched carefully informing a layer of interpretation which drove 
>> graphics, and fed back to the text.
>
> This is indeed deep structure.
>
>> We have some of that in the rendering family of tools.
>
> Are you talking about Leo's rendering pane?

Right. I input text, a layer of code watches what I do, translates
it, writes it to the rendering pane.

if a single arrow is a 'watcher' and double arrow is a 'changer'
a triple arrow is a 'watcher' plus a 'changer'

render watches me, writes to rendered

me <- render ->> rendered

in the demo, render watches me, writes to rendered,
also watches rendered, uses what it sees to change me

me <<<- render ->>> rendered

>
>> There is room for improvement in Leo in the event tracking scaffold.
>
> Well, that's an understatement.
>
> I know from experience just how difficult it is to have bi-directional
> interaction with Leo's outline.  The demo is simply mind-blowing in
> this regard.
>
> Edward
>
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