CoCoA » ApCoCoA

What characteristics of the new UI must be tested?

Here is a list: probably each entry here will correspond to a new separate issue (or perhaps more than one)

• access to CoCoA and ApCoCoA online manual (in separate window)
• handle large outputs gracefully (e.g. long lines and/or many lines)
• clearing all or part of the output window
• editable windows for typing in CoCoA commands and function definitions
• execution of commands from a window (or from a selected region of a window)
• error messages giving helpful indication of where the error was found
• saving to a file, reading from a file into a window
• cocoa5 command line parameters? e.g. --allow-system-cmd

Next meeting with Nguetsa: Wed 16th Oct, at 14:00.
Intro to redmine; plan for next 2 weeks. New version of cocoa5. Initial set of tests.

• allow cut-and-paste of arbitrarily large text blocks
• allow cut-and-paste from any window to any other window
• allow several source windows to be open simultaneously (switch between them using tabs)
• source window may(must?) be associated to a file
• syntax highlighting in source windows (low priority)
• files are stored in different "projects" (a proj is just a directory)
• have a window listing projects, and able to show files in a project (each file may be opened into a new source window)
• send contents of a source window to the execution window
• execution window must handle well large outputs and long lines (e.g. > 1Mbyte long)
• have an interactive window with history mechanism
• separate window for man pages

Probably some more.

2019-10-16 Current state

• early prototype
• JAA confirms that UI works with an interactive window and separate output window
• syntax highlighting is active in windows associated to CoCoA input

Next meeting is 2019-11-21 at 11:00.
AIM: get interactive window and history mechanism working.