On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:36 AM, Joe Orr <joe....@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the welcome back! >
You're welcome. It's truly great to have you back. > > A few more thoughts on this topic: > > Cool trees is D3 v4: > https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/e9ba78a2c1070980d1b530800ce7fa2b > https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4063550 > Impressive. These kinds of radial trees are common in genetics. > I'll get the Leo Viewer project up and running within a week or so on > Github. > > I'm currently working in full stack node development with Angular / Vue on > front end + D3 at moment so I should be able to leverage some of that. Vue > seems better for this project than Angular. > I hadn't heard about either d3 or vue until yesterday. Keeping up with the js world seems like another full-time job. > I'm thinking the Leo Viewer could be used to generate some nice display > examples from Leo generated content. Could be a good way to introduce more > people to Leo. > The lack of pizazz in Leo's intro is a kinda like the weather. Easy to complain about it. Glad to see you have plans to do something about it ;-) Besides D3 there are other HTML5 components that could be added fairly > easily. For example I'm also thinking it would be cool to have reveal.js > make a slide show out of a subtree. > Yet another thing to google. Great stuff. > > Once the viewer is useful, it is simple to make an Electron version, which > makes it a complete cross platform desktop app: > https://electron.atom.io/ > Wow. This video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YP_nOCO-4Q&feature=youtu.be> from the atom page explains the idea. And once that is working, the viewer could become an alternate front end to > the existing Leo program by wrapping Leo in a node server. Node can talk to > Python. > On the agenda for this year is incorporating pyzo's <http://www.pyzo.org/> client-server architecture (yoton <https://github.com/pyzo/pyzo/tree/master/doc/yoton>) into Leo. Not sure how this relates to a node server. Maybe electron/atom will replace that goal. Another thing to think about down the road is making a version of Leo from > Atom, basically a similar technique (wrap Python in node). > https://github.com/atom/atom. Already thought of a good name for it: @Leo > :-) > Alright then. We have our work cut out for us! Many thanks, Joe, for all these great ideas. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
