This whole thing brings to mind something that I've been curious about for awhile. What's the "recommended" way to transfer data between activities? Say, I record some data in Measure and want to import it into Chart. Or I generate some data in Finance and want to import it into Chart. Is the Clipboard the way to do it? IE, should we support specialize "copy as text/csv" (or whatever) and "paste text/csv" in our activities? Same goes for transferring of pictures. If I take a picture in Record and want to paint over it in Colors!, is Copy in Record and then Paste in Colors! the way to go, or should I have Colors! open the Record Journal entry? Thanks, Wade <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The Measure activity is another approach to consider: data collection from multiple sources are shared and displayed in the same visualization space. -walter <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Eben Eliason <<a href="mailto:eben@laptop.org">eben@laptop.org</a>> wrote: > 2009/3/23 Jameson Quinn <<a href="mailto:jameson.quinn@gmail.com">jameson.quinn@gmail.com</a>>: >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Garrison Benson <<a href="mailto:Benson.Garrison@gmail.com">Benson.Garrison@gmail.com</a>> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Jameson Quinn wrote: >>> > >>> > Implementing a whole spreadsheet is a big enough chore. We do really >>> > care >>> > about collaboration, but I would advise you to limit your ambitions to >>> > something achievable, so worrying too much about collaboration right now >>> > is >>> > not vital. >>> > >>> >>> I don't plan to create a spreadsheet, just a graph/chart tool. Obviously a >>> full-featured spreadsheet (with functions, formulas, etc.) would be great >>> for Sugar, but I think a simple, user-friendly charting activity would be >>> much more feasible and more likely to actually be used in a primary >>> school/middle school environment. (Full spreadsheet applications are >>> pretty >>> daunting to learn.) I was just throwing out the idea of a >>> spreadsheet-style >>> interface as the most obvious (but not necessarily best) type of interface >>> for this kind of program. >> >> OK, understood. I think that you're right, a spreadsheet-style interface is >> best - when you're doing charts by hand, you start with data tables. Still, >> I recommend that you plan your main deliverable as something that is >> polished but without collaboration, and keep collaboration as something that >> you'll work on if you have the time. Collaboration is actually harder to get >> right than formulas, IMO. > > Agreed. I'd simply encourage you to keep future collaboration in > mind, such that large reorganization of the code isn't needed later on > to add it. You might also look into > <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Groupthink" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Groupthink</a>, which could be a potential > solution to adding collaboration in the long run. > > - Eben > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> > </div></div>-- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>