GUI interactive prompt with non-text output

[James Tauber]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 20:37:33 +1000, "Tim Churches"
<tchur at optushome.com.au> said:
> James Tauber wrote:
> > Is anyone aware of extensions to a GUI interactive prompt (such as
> that
> > in IDLE) where the statements executed might be able to produce a
> > graphical output after the input prompt as well as text (as you would
> get
> > if you did a "print").
[...]

> Have a look at PyCrust - see http://www.orbtech.com/www/PyManual.html
> Or if want a higher level interface to wxPython, try PythonCard (see
> http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/) - see Figure 5 of the turtle example
> at http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/samples/turtle.html - is that what
> you had in mind?

It would if the pentagon had actually been drawn on the shell canvas
immediately below the input that produced it.

I'm thinking of something that would support the following (but with
nicely drawn graphics rather than the ASCII art):

>>> draw_square(side=100)

    +-----+
    |     |
    |     |
    +-----+

>>> integrate("3x", "x")

         2
       3x
       --- + C
        2

>>> draw_bar_graph([3,5,2])

   |   #  
   |   #
   | # #
   | # # #
   | # # #
   +-------

>>>

and so on...

The best examples I've seen so far are
  http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/tour/page2.html
and
  http://www.xmlterm.com



 
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  James Tauber
  http://jtauber.com/