On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:47 PM, meitnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Sorry for my confusion and misunderstanding. Thought the whole Gui was
> all in Javascript.

The client part, which runs in the web browser, is written in
javascript.  The server part is a Python program (a web server).

> Thanks for explaining.
> Please, is there a document that explains well how the Gui front end
> works.

No.

> I really would like to try to get help and add to the gui for my
> needs.

Cool.

> Is there an RTF version of the Ref guide for starters?

I don't think so.  Mike is there a way to generate rtf from ReST/Sphinx?

> Will it be hard for any experienced Javascript/python programmer to
> help me bolt on a way to point/click input?

What precisely do you mean by that?  Are you not able to use a
keyboard at all or?

What do you want to compute?

> Sometimes we disabled folk need to point out the missing curb cuts.
>
> And thanks for hearing me out and putting up with a determined guy.



>
> On Mar 21, 1:18 pm, William Stein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 7:56 AM, meitnik <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I  hate to ask the obvious. Why was the gui front end not created in
>> > Python in the first place or replaced by a Py make over??
>>
>> Despite being obvious, I don't understand the question.  The GUI front
>> end is written in Python and Javascript, which is the canonical choice
>> for writing an AJAX interface to a Python program.
>>
>> > Surely,
>> > Someone with advanced Javascript skills can come up with something
>> > better?
>> > I dont mean to step on toes but Gui is often everything to me
>> > to use software well.
>>
>> I'm sorry that you find the Sage GUI to not be optimal.  Many thanks
>> for your feedback.
>>
>>  -- William
> >
>



-- 
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org

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