Add support for sidecar or tear-off style widgets (Support for separate windows for output rather than inline)

Open psychemedia opened this issue 5 years ago • 14 comments

The JupyterLab UI allows for the output view of code cells to be "torn off" into their own view (eg feature request https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/8740).

The JupyterLab sidecar extension is an alternative context manager that allows a a user to create a reference to a new view and then display a widget within it.

from sidecar import Sidecar
from ipywidgets import IntSlider

sc = Sidecar(title='Sidecar Output')

#Create some sort of widget
sl = IntSlider(description='Some slider')

# Create the separate output view and populate it with the widget
with sc:
    display(sl)

Apr 22 '20 06:04 psychemedia

This issue accidentally got moved out of our triage discussions. Putting it back for next time.

Jul 27 '20 22:07 greazer

any updates here?

Oct 06 '22 06:10 KaivnD

none yet, please do upvote the issue

Oct 06 '22 07:10 DonJayamanne

Definitely need it!

Oct 06 '22 11:10 KaivnD

May 21 '23 17:05 brentgunderson

May 28 '23 16:05 lalligagger

Jul 14 '23 10:07 joedon4477

Dec 11 '23 13:12 TsubasaBE

Please remember to upvote the issue, thats how we measure interest in this issue and then use that for prioritising issues.

Dec 11 '23 14:12 DonJayamanne

Sep 06 '24 13:09 krokosik

Sep 17 '24 18:09 odhondt

Sep 18 '24 07:09 TsubasaBE

Apr 15 '25 09:04 teksander

May 30 '25 18:05 uakob

Unfortunately we've decided to not implement this feature. This requires a fair bit of effort on our part to enable this functionality. IN Jupyter lab its simpler as most of the components are within the same process, however in VS Code each view is isolated (thus webviews containing ipywidgets are in fact separate/standalone webviews).

I.e. its a fairly large engineering effort.

Oct 10 '25 06:10 DonJayamanne