Hi fellow Sagers, I'm looking for some natural way to replace the output for the current notebook cell during its computation. But before filing an enhancement request, I would like to make sure I'm not overlooking the obvious.
My motivation is to display progress information during a long running calculation. If I use print or html(), everything I write is appended to the output. Even after the calculation has finished, my cell is occupied with the progress messages which are no longer necessary. A quick look at the notebook sources revealed that check_for_cell_update() is repeatedly polling for the contents of the cell output and that set_output_text() can be used to change it. But I would need the current cell object to use this function, which is as far as I know unaccessible from the notebook itself. Note that I can work around the problem using some client side scripting hack as demonstrated in the attached proof-of-concept notebook. But I don't like to depend on undocumented features and there must be some nicer way to tackle this. Thank you, Tamas -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
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