Nick Alexander wrote: > Many of you know that I am, let's say, committed to emacs, and > certainly not a big fan of the notebook. However... it does do at > least one thing really well, and that is @interact.
At first, I thought you were announcing interacts for your emacs mode! These are some good suggestions. > > I am writing code to numerically compute period matrices for Riemann > surfaces, and the first step includes a little of graph theory in the > plane: one wants to determine paths around specified branch points > with nice properties. So, of course, I started working up the > routines and using interact to view the outputs. > > Unfortunately, it's not exactly a great experience, the actual > developing of interact code. (In fact, I went back to emacs and > static graphs.) But http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact is really, > really cool. So cool, in fact, that I think the sage community needs > to work harder to make this feature even more awesome. > > Can we open the floor for some discussion of this feature? Here are > some things I want: > > * I want to be able to "pop out" or "anchor" an interact and have it > update a div that's permanently glued to the right side of my browser, > floating to be always visible. I'm no web design guru and even I know > that this is not difficult. The motivation is that I have hundreds of > lines of code computing the relevant bits of the interact, and I have > to keep scrolling around to find the new picture. This would let me > anchor the output and edit more sanely. > > (In fact, there's nothing special about an interact cell for this: > almost always, I have one "doit" cell at the bottom that I want to run > after edits, and I could anchor that cell for ease of use.) We can anchor with CSS, I believe. I think anchoring a cell would be a very simple piece of javascript code that changes the CSS of the cell. Do people think this is a valuable feature? > > * I want to be able to compose interacts. That is, I'd like to > build a library of interacts: one that allows me to specify an input > graph using that neat javascript graph editor (this is good for points > in the plane and for paths in the plane), one that allows me to > specify a function, a nice "range slider with variable endpoints and > steps" (notice how often that comes up in wiki/interact?), etc. Then > I can just glue the inputs together. Can you give an example piece of code and what you'd like it to do? > > * I want these amazing interact examples to be included in the sage > library, as incredibly cool building blocks for future interacts. +1. This would be a very cool section of the manual or tutorial---selected @interact examples. Especially since you can edit and run things in the docs! > > * I want the wiki page to be truly interactive, i.e. to link to > sagenb. This stuff is just way too cool to be static. +1. I can see links to public worksheets (just copy the current wiki stuff into a worksheet, publish it, and edit the link in the wiki). If someone volunteered to maintain the "official" version of each page... This would also be cool if published sheets could have interactive @interacts. It seems like Mike Hansen was working on this at one time (and it also seems like that's a very common response to most "is it implemented" questions---Mike has touched just about everything!) Thanks for your input! Jason -- Jason Grout --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
