[mesa-users] MESAFace thanks and suggestions

[Stan Owocki]

> 
> It is, in fact, a shame that you need Mathematica to use MESAFace. We thought about CDF (in fact, Michael looked for quite a while into that). Also Stan Owocki originally suggested us to use CDF. However, as far as I know, you cannot download external data with CDF. Maybe Michael or Stan can add some more details on that.


Yes, CDF is limited in this way. A primitive CDF that I developed for teaching used EZWeb data already loaded for a given stellar mass.  I supposed one might consider making such sample versions for standard cases like M=Msun; but unless/until Wolfram can be persuaded to make CDF more capable for import/export, I guess usage of this nice tool will require a Mathematica license. Personally, I've had such since 1990, so I don't mind. And there a fair number of astronomy tools that require a licensed product like IDL, so I don't see it as particularly onerous to expect folks wanting to take advantage of this to get an academic license.

Stan



On Aug 10, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Samuel Harrold wrote:

> Hi Maurizio,
> 
> I see that from http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/howto/CreateAComputableDocumentFormatFile.html, you're right that data import and export are not supported. I didn't realize that.
> "
> Data import and export are not supported from within CDF Player with the exception of Wolfram-curated data sources (ChemicalData, CountryData, WordData, etc.).
> "
> 
> Hopefully this will change with future releases. And after recalling Rich Townsend's experience making the the MESA SDK, maybe it's better to not attempt a standalone executable.
> 
> Thanks anyhow for the terrific tool! I look forward to future releases!
> 
> Cheers,
> Sam
> 
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Giannotti, Maurizio <MGiannotti at mail.barry.edu> wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> Thanks for your email and suggestions. I am happy you like the interface. 
> 
> It is, in fact, a shame that you need Mathematica to use MESAFace. We thought about CDF (in fact, Michael looked for quite a while into that). Also Stan Owocki originally suggested us to use CDF. However, as far as I know, you cannot download external data with CDF. Maybe Michael or Stan can add some more details on that.
> 
> Best,
> Maurizio
> 
> Maurizio Giannotti,
> Assistant Professor of Physics,
> Physical Sciences, Barry University,
> 11300 NE 2nd Ave., Miami Shores, FL 33161
> mgiannotti at mail.barry.edu
> 305-899-4565 (office), 305-899-3479 (fax)
>  
> From: samuel.harrold at gmail.com [samuel.harrold at gmail.com] on behalf of Samuel Harrold [harrold at astro.as.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 10:54 PM
> To: Giannotti, Maurizio; Wise, Michael; Mohammed, Aaron (Barry Student)
> Subject: MESAFace thanks and suggestions
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks so much for making MESAFace! I've been using Mathematica to make my own quick diagnostic plots, but your code is terrific!
> 
> I'm sure you already have additional features in the works. For the people who don't have Mathematica, it would be useful to have the notebook in a Computable Document Format, and eventually, it could also be useful to have as a standalone executable.
> 
> Thank you for making such a useful plotting tool!
> 
> Best,
> Sam
> __________
> Samuel Harrold
> Graduate Student
> Astronomy Department
> University of Texas at Austin
> 

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