Yes. My student is graduating next month, and I will take whatever he has and polish it up and submit it. It was a learning experience for him, so progress was slow, but I can commit some time in June to moving this along.
-Marshall On May 21, 6:40 am, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > Pablo Angulo wrote: > > Hello > > Sometimes when writing an interactive plot with @interact I would like > > to select a 2D point. I can put two input boxes, one for each > > coordinate. When either coordinate is updated, it starts to recompute > > the graph, while I'd prefer it to compute only when both coordinates are > > changed. But that's a minor issue: what I'd really like is to click on > > the graph to select the point. Is this in your wishlist too? > > Some initial work has already been done towards this. > Seehttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3866 > > Marshall Hampton had a student that was going to work more on this. > Marshall, has there been progress? > > > > > I think it might conflict with how @interact works: first fill the > > controls, then the function does whatever, it may be a graph or not, and > > there's no feedback from the output of the function back into the > > interact controls. > > There might also be more than one point, so what to do with a click? I > > have a suggestion: if an argument of the function is of type point > > (instead of, say, input_box) then there are two boxes, one for each > > coordinate, but also a draggable object, the size of a small circle. > > I've seen drag and drop work using the scriptaculous javascrtipt > > library, so it looks possible. When the object is dropped onto any > > picture, it will trigger an update of the point coordinates. So there > > would be several points, each with a different color, and the points > > would be drawn on top of the graph with their respective colors on their > > current positions so that the user knows what she's about to change. If > > she drags the handle within the point box in the interact part, and drop > > it in a position different than the current, the graph would be updated. > > Any ideas? Is this feasible/desirable? > > I like your ideas! > > Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
