[etoys-dev] Copying Graphing tools and Speech Bubbles to Inbox

[Ricardo Moran]

I think you're going to like this version :)
http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/gsoc/NewGraphingTools.002.pr

I still haven't done all the things you told me but I'm getting there. I
finally removed the PointMorph and BarMorph classes. Everything works as
before but you can use now any object as a Point or Bar, you just drop it on
the graph and it gets added to the point/bar list (well... almost any
object, I guess there might be problems with some complex morphs...)

In the case of the bars, I used the object's height as its value and the
object's name as its label, like you suggested. Also, the objects you add to
a graph get a new viewer category for its specific slots. I haven't done the
same for vectors yet but I will do it soon. As I'm thinking it, we will have
three different graphs for bars, points, and vectors. That's the easiest way
I found to distinguish each drop correctly.

I also merged the PointTableMorph and BarTableMorph classes into
TableOfValuesMorph, and I merged a few short viewer categories. What I
haven't done yet is writing the balloon helps and using the holder
vocabulary for the graphs but I wanted to show this at least, which I think
it's much nicer than what I had before. Please comment if you think this is
the right direction. Thanks!

Richo


On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 15.08.2010, at 00:37, Ricardo Moran wrote:
>
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 14.08.2010, at 19:00, Ricardo Moran wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I've just uploaded a new commit to the inbox. It contains all the
>> graphing tools and speech bubbles with most of Bert's suggestions fixed. I'm
>> sorry for the big commit but I moved my older commits to treated because
>> they were incomplete. Now the only commits needed to have these tools
>> working properly are: Morphic-Richo.33 and Etoys-Richo.32
>> > I hope they got accepted into Etoys. I'm excited :)
>>
>> I think they will :) I cleaned out the inbox today, merged all
>> submissions, made minor modifications.
>>
>> I only did not merge Etoys-Richo.32 yet. It is much nicer than the
>> previous version, but still not quite there IMHO:
>>
>> * the "remove" tile duplicates the existing "erase" tile
>> * barColor duplicates color
>> * a lot of graph tiles duplicate holder functionality
>> * a "bar table" is something in a club ;) I think calling it "table of
>> values" would be better
>> * privateExtent:/privateCenter:/privatePosition: methods duplicate the
>> existing extent:/center:/position: methods
>> * there is still a reference to Vector (though only in an example method)
>> * there already is another object called "Graph" in the object catalog
>> * none of the new slots have a balloon help
>> * some of the "plot - ..." categories are quite short, they should be
>> merged
>> * apply, max, min, remove, are all a bit short. There is already
>> minVal/maxVal and getMinVal/getMaxVal for example which you could reuse
>>
>> I think the apparent complexity could be simplified when adopting more of
>> the holder vocabulary. Instead of "index" call it "cursor". "point x" would
>> be "x value at cursor" or so. Etc.
>>
>
> Most of these can be fixed easily. Specially the terminology ones (I didn't
> know about the "bar table", otherwise I would have used other term :P)
>
>
>> Ideally, the graph would just *be* a holder/playfield. E.g. in a bar
>> graph, the user might just put plain rectangles or sketches or whatever.
>> Instead of extra labels, use the rectangle's name. The value would simply be
>> calculated from the object's width and the bar scale factor (just like you
>> did for points, which can be moved freely - cool). Same for xy graphs - the
>> points could be *any* object in a playfield. And possibly even points and
>> vectors could be unified - a point would just be a vector of length 0? That
>> might be not the best idea, I don't know. How much more time do you have in
>> your project?
>>
>
> So adding a bar/point/vector would be just dropping an object (any object)
> into the graph... I like it, I think it's possibly a good idea (if we manage
> to figure out a nice way of unifying vectors and points... maybe different
> graphs for each?), but it's quite different from what I currently have and
> I'm not sure I'll be able to make it in time for this release. Since this
> seems like a big change I think adding these tools to the Etoys release may
> not be such a good idea. Maybe we should wait to hear the opinion of the
> educators about this change and if they like it, work on this for the next
> release.
>
> The GSoC deadline is this monday and I didn't even finish the seven items
> in my proposal. I will still work on this after gsoc is over but I worked
> very little in the PaintBox and I haven't even touched the EtoyMaker. That's
> a bummer...
>
>
>>
>> I have no serious complaints about the bubble implementation (except for
>> the empty help balloons on the tiles), but you submitted both together so I
>> could not merge them yet.
>>
>
> I'll write the balloon help and I'll push the bubbles to Etoys myself, if
> that's ok with you.
>
>
> Certainly.
>
>  - Bert -
>
>
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