Orange Blog

By: AJDA, Oct 10, 2016

The Story of Shadow and Orange

This is a long story. I remember when started my PhD in Italy. There I met a researcher and he said to me: »You should do some simulations on x-ray optics beamline.« »Yes, but how should I do that?« He gave me a big tape, it was 1986. I soon realized it was all code. But it was a code called Shadow. I started to look at the code, to play with it, do some simulations… Soon my boss told me:

Categories: canvas interface oasys

By: BIOLAB, Feb 14, 2013

New canvas

Orange Canvas, a visual programming environment for Orange, has been around for a while. Integrating new and new features degraded the quality of code to a point where further development proved to be a daunting task. With ever increasing number of widgets, the existing widget toolbar is becoming harder and harder to use, but improving it is really hard. For that reason, we decided Orange needs a new Canvas, a rewrite, that would keep all of the feature of the existing one, but introduce the needed structure and modularity to the source code.

Categories: canvas features