graphic user interface

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So far FS has only a command-line interface. This is enough to make it work and let others automate it through shell scripts but an average user will definitely expect something "viewable" and more intuitive to use. GUI also allows to implement some fancy features like loot preview, filter rules debug, price data download management etc.

I'm currently contributing to cycfi/elements which will be the GUI library used for FS.

I'm currently using Magnum and discovering what's possible with it.

Meanwhite, post your feature ideas/UI mockups here.

Current plan (outaded): A UI consisting of few top-level tabs:

• generation
  • browse for input template file
  • browse for output directory path
  • choose which data to use (see download tab)
  • (perhaps some generation tweaks in the future: warnings, variants, themes etc)
• download
  • download from poe.ninja for \<league>
  • download from poe.watch for \<league>
  • view downloaded data (separated into categories like on respective websites)
  • manage past downloads (copy, delete, etc)
• loot preview/debug
  • this is a bigger topic, see issue #5
  • something similar to Filtration but more of the debug part than editing (FS uses user-written template files)
• settings
  • ???
• about
  • links to repository, author info, version etc
  • (possibly auto-update button in the future)

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Sample UI mockups:

The second one is more close to the final version. The first one has overcomplicated item price data management - users should not care about micro-managing each download, they should just select league and API and then FS should automatically download the data if there is no recent such download in the cache.

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Most recent work (using elements library):

This is an unfinished first UI that can actually be compiled.

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Big news:

• PoE 3.13 has been delayed to January. This means a lot of time in December to work on the project.
• I recently finished studies (now officially an engineer)
• I found Magnum which seems like an ideal library/framework for the project:
  • it supports Emscripten builds (FS running on a website)
  • it supports Dear ImGui which can be GPU-accelerated and has support for custom rendering
  • is generally easy to integrate (using CMake)

State so far:

500+ FPS while running on laptop's integrated card

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Current UI progress:

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Another example screen:

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Done and released in 9cef3964bbacd936e584bfe551871e585971ece8.