[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-09-21 Thread William Stein
On 9/21/07, Hamptonio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Were any of these ideas ever implemented? I am occaisonally messed up by the worksheet quietly restarting without my realizing it. (In that No work has been done on this. I've made this http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/735 so it

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-23 Thread boothby
(By the way, I think it's a known bug that if I hit the save button, then things I've entered into a cell don't get saved if I didn't hit shift-enter.) That is not a bug - it is by design. We may consider changing this behavior though. I think this is a poor idea, interface-wise. When

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-23 Thread William Stein
On 8/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (By the way, I think it's a known bug that if I hit the save button, then things I've entered into a cell don't get saved if I didn't hit shift-enter.) That is not a bug - it is by design. We may consider changing this behavior

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-21 Thread Dan Christensen
William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/20/07, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also curious what happens if I leave a browser open to a worksheet in my office, and then open the worksheet again from home. Do they somehow synchronize? I wish. That would be nice.

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-21 Thread William Stein
On 8/21/07, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish. That would be nice. Instead, you'll eventually get a warning in red that another browser is viewing the same page. Otherwise things are exactly the same. Just to be clear, can I at least take over the worksheet from home, and

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-21 Thread Dan Christensen
William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/21/07, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, a quick test using two tabs in one browser shows that even if I save changes in one tab, if I reload the page in the other tab the changes don't always appear. But if I close the stale tab and

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-21 Thread William Stein
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/21/07, Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, a quick test using two tabs in one browser shows that even if I save changes in one tab, if I reload the page in the

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-20 Thread Dan Christensen
Nils Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This makes me think that a checkbox this worksheet is persistent might be better. This sounds good to me. I'm also curious what happens if I leave a browser open to a worksheet in my office, and then open the worksheet again from home. Do they somehow

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-13 Thread Hamptonio
I agree. I think a big selling point for sage is using the notebook for teaching. A related thing I would love to have someday is the ability to control which users can see which worksheets, in a fine- grained sense. E.g., I would like to be able to assign students to small groups, and have

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-10 Thread Nils Bruin
[...] Would the following work for you? [...] [Save] [Save Close] [ Close Leave Running ] [Discard Changes] Since you ask explicitly, yes that would work. The magical behaviour before was really surprisingly friendly, but rather unpredictable in resource usage. Keep in mind that it is

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-10 Thread William Stein
On 8/10/07, Nils Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Would the following work for you? [...] [Save] [Save Close] [ Close Leave Running ] [Discard Changes] Since you ask explicitly, yes that would work. The magical behaviour before was really surprisingly friendly, but rather

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-10 Thread William Stein
On 8/9/07, Nils Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I understand the necessity to quit ignored worksheets in many cases, to save resources. However, it does kill a highly desirable behaviour that existed before: 1) start very long computation at work 2) kill browser, log out (process still

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-10 Thread Justin C. Walker
On Aug 10, 2007, at 4:47 AM, William Stein wrote: On 8/9/07, Nils Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] One question is whether this button should appear for the public server or not. And, if it does, if it should still have some timeout, e.g., some number of hours. I like the solution you

[sage-devel] Re: Quitting ignored worksheet vs. long computations

2007-08-10 Thread Jonathan Bober
Obviously, this option should not exist on servers that serve a wide range of users. It's really for people doing big computations on their own set of computers. OK. Just a thought - it might be even better to have this option available or not on a per-user basis. In fact, though I