[squeakland] Charts (was: New Graphing Tools)

[Steve Thomas]

Some other thoughts/questions:

   - Perhaps have an option to show 0 (or not).  This would be useful for
   when you have two axis that intersect at 0, as it would look better if we
   didn't show the 0 labels.
   - When I change the *Line's min val* it changes the max value (and vica
   versa).  Hmmm, okay I think I'm beginning to understand why you did this.  I
   was used to setting the min and max value for the axis and having the scale
   adjust as opposed to the scale setting the max value (well "Invert always
   invert" ;)  Have to think about this.
   - The labels seem a little too close to the number lines.
   - It would be nice to have tiles to specify the font and size for the
   labels. (Or course it would be nice to tiles to specify font, size,
   centered/left flush|right flush|centered, for all text objects :)
   - How can you set the arrow head for the negative direction?

Stephen

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi guys, I'm trying again with the graphing tools. It's been a while since
> I worked on this (sorry about that) but I really want to see them
> integrated.
>
> So now I'm following Bert's suggestions and I'm trying with a less general
> approach: I'm not introducing a new scale on top of the existing one,
> instead I just added a "current object" slot on the number lines, and a
> "current object position in chart" slot that transforms from squeak's pixel
> to the number line scale and viceversa.
>
> The implementation is much simpler than before but it's more uncomfortable
> IMHO. I think it would be best to have two "transform" functions accepting a
> number as argument and returning it transformed from one scale to the other.
> Unfortunately, it seems Etoys doesn't support this kind of functions nicely,
> all the examples I could find (such as #color:sees:) seem to be a little
> hacked and I wasn't sure if following that path was the right way to
> proceed.
>
> I think the best would be for you to test it and tell me what you think.
> I'm attaching a project with the new number lines.
> Thanks!
>
> Richo
>
> P.S. I also renamed the project to Charts as Bert suggested
>
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