| 1 | | This is most likely a big project. |
| 2 | | |
| 3 | | From Chris Godsil's wishlist (replies by Jason Grout and Robert Miller, in that order). |
| 4 | | |
| 5 | | {{{ |
| 6 | | >>> A graph editor. This would allow graphs to be constructed and edited by |
| 7 | | >>> pointing and clicking. It should be able to output ps/pdf files. We |
| 8 | | >>> want to |
| 9 | | >>> be able to save the current state in machine readable form, and to be able |
| 10 | | >>> to input graphs in this form. This means we will have drawings as explicit |
| 11 | | >>> objects. (Thus it would be easy to write programs to generate drawings.) |
| 12 | | >>> If we have a graph displayed in the editor, we should be able to access it |
| 13 | | >>> from sage/python, and compute parameters there. So I would like to be able |
| 14 | | >>> to adjust the graph with the mouse, or from sage. |
| 15 | | >>> Some people will want to be able to use arbitrarily complicated curves |
| 16 | | >>> for the edges, and to place all sorts of text around the drawing. This |
| 17 | | >>> will |
| 18 | | >>> lead to something like xfig rewritten in sage. |
| 19 | | >> Indeed, this does sound like a very ambitious project. We might look at |
| 20 | | >> incorporating other graph editors. There are a few written in Java that |
| 21 | | >> might be useful. As it is, though, do we have any GUI things we can work |
| 22 | | >> with other than Java (like the recent interactive 3d plots) or some sort |
| 23 | | >> of AJAX trickery? We may be able to do something with javascript |
| 24 | | >> draggable objects here, using jquery or some other javascript GUI |
| 25 | | >> library. It seems like at one point someone mentioned another javascript |
| 26 | | >> library for drawing on a web page. |
| 27 | | > Sean Howe wrote a javascript editor, and that is lurking in my email |
| 28 | | > somewhere. I think it was decided against for reasons of notebook |
| 29 | | > security, and in favor of the new Java3d stuff. The problem is that |
| 30 | | > interactive GUIs is a difficult problem for anything in Sage. Also, |
| 31 | | > nothing has been written for the Java3d stuff yet. The problem with a |
| 32 | | > lot of graph visualizers and editors already written is that most of |
| 33 | | > them aren't very high quality, and there are so many low quality |
| 34 | | > ones... |
| 35 | | |
| 36 | | }}} |
