User interface questions

[pelson]

Live reveal is so cool!
I've got a couple of questions/observations about the live reveal mode.

• Firstly, is there any ctrl+m h type help available for the reveal shortcut keys?
• Is there a way to enable or disable the slide mode via keyboard, rather than the button?
• Is there any way to hide the slide pane at the top of the reveal mode?
• Is there a quick way to flick between slides without having to go through each slide's individual fragments?

Keep up the awesome work on this killer feature!

[damianavila]

Firstly, is there any ctrl+m h type help available for the reveal shortcut keys?

Not yet, but maybe I can add this functionality... thanks for pointed out!

Is there a way to enable or disable the slide mode via keyboard, rather than the button?

Not yet... I have to think how to do it :-)

Is there any way to hide the slide pane at the top of the reveal mode?

Again... not yet... you can hack the source to do it, but not an final user way to do it...

Is there a quick way to flick between slides without having to go through each slide's individual fragments?

Yes, you can use the keyboard arrows left and right... and the pgup and pgdn to go up and down :-)

As you can see, in this phase of development, a lot of things are fixed and not easy to modifify by the final user, because we need to make some experience to know what the users really need to modify and what they don't...

Keep up the awesome work on this killer feature!

Thanks for your words!

[damianavila]

Just updating:

Firstly, is there any ctrl+m h type help available for the reveal shortcut keys?

Help button at the bottom left corner is now available.

Is there a way to enable or disable the slide mode via keyboard, rather than the button?

Right now you can do it with alt + r in command mode...

Is there any way to hide the slide pane at the top of the reveal mode?

I was eliminated some time ago...

Is there a quick way to flick between slides without having to go through each slide's individual fragments?

Yes, you have the left and right arrows, or pgup and pgdw to go the up-slide and to the down-slide

Because, all seems done, I will close this one...
Thanks for you feedback, I really appreciate it!

[pelson]

👍 great stuff @damianavila - very exciting. I wonder how many presentations this year at SciPy'14 will be using this...

[damianavila]

I don't think a lot of people know RISE (aka for live reveal)... but I hope a lot of people will use it after my talk.

BTW, recently it was merged a PR in IPython master dealing with the linear appearance of fragments, as we discussed some time ago... This behaviour is also present in RISE. Thanks for your tenacity in asking for that change. I really appreciate your feedback, even if we disagree on some things 😉

[pelson]

BTW, recently it was merged a PR in IPython master dealing with the linear appearance of fragments, as we discussed some time ago

I saw. Congratulations on getting it merged - looks like all the pieces have come together nicely for SciPy. (in fact, I've just added a "nbagg" backend to matplotlib which implements interactive figures in the browser using IPython's Comm protocol - it would be super awesome if this all hangs together and you have interactive reveal and interactive figures in the same presentation! I might have to look into that myself 😉 as I think they are killer features on their own, but incredible when combined!

[damianavila]

In fact I am working in the bokeh project too... and I was planning to add some interactive plots to my presentation 😉. But I would like to play with the nbagg backend soon!!!
BTW, I have a custom new "appearance" (actually custom css theme) not only in my notebook but also in RISE, so I hope the people get really interesting in the tool (not only to do white "bored" presentation... instead a fully interactive slideshow with "nice" design too).