probably my idea can be mapped to simulink or http://www.ailab.si/orange/screenshots.asp it could be achieved via (animated) svg
but first I expect just buttons and input dialogs instead of command line style.. On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:13 PM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you thinking of something like matlab's Simulink? I know some > people love that, but I have never seen it used in a way that > impressed me - that's mostly because I have only used matlab a handful > of times. On a web discussion on Sage recently I saw some posts from > people who would have no interest in Sage until we have something like > Simulink (from the engineering community). > > -M. Hampton > > On May 17, 3:22 pm, "Jurgis Pralgauskis" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I'd like SAGE to have what wxMaxima is for Maxima. >> > Have you seen the interact command? >> > http://wiki.sagemath.org/interact >> >> Yes, I did, it's kind of what I expect (and in some sense - even more), >> but with limitation to "once" (one declaration for one cell) >> >> in wxMaxima, you can call the functionality many times in your processing >> flow. >> Roughly what I imagine is menu of buttons by the side of current >> cellhttp://popmokslas.projektas.lt/etc/sagenb-more_gui-buttons.png >> or the buttons could be in some right/left toolbar >> >> clicking on the button >> 1) either just pastes template of code (most easily achieved) >> >> 2) or calls interactive input (field for each needed argument), >> executes template (or just a function) filled with the input >> and gives the result >> >> the input fields mapping to func arguments is already done in >> interact, as I see. >> so if some common tasks are predefined as functions >> with @interact_input code for them >> then they could be called many times >> (but the collection of buttons should be described only once, >> in the beginning or outside notebook session) >> >> by the way, is @interact designed to return some value for further >> calculations (in next cells)? >> >> Now I am little confused with my vision... >> I see two paradigms: >> 1) code with GUI *input* helper to speed up writing it >> 2) extended *interact* way, with ability to build interact sequences >> (and no code to be shown) >> and changing some input would recalculate the rest stuff which depend on >> it >> >> Generally I see big future for case 2 in universities and schools, >> of course, if interact blocks could pass values between each other >> then I could construct the calculation sequence mainly with mouse >> clicking (people like it). >> maybe even like inhttp://scratch.mit.edu/:) >> >> Hope, I am not too unclear... >> Maybe I should give more graphical explanation? (but I'm a bit lazy for it) >> >> -- >> Jurgis Pralgauskis >> jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; skype: dz0rdzas; >> Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) > > > -- Jurgis Pralgauskis omni: 8-616 77613; teledema: 8-657 65656; jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; skype: dz0rdzas; Don't worry, be happy and make things better ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-edu" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-edu@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-edu?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
