To significantly improve the GUI's flexibility, usability, and user guidance by implementing dynamic sizing, adding a status message panel, enabling command-line arguments, introducing tooltips, providing multilanguage support, and displaying pro tips.
Enhancements Overview
Dynamic GUI Sizing
Current Behavior: The GUI size is fixed, limiting full-screen usage and flexibility.
Expected Behavior: Implement dynamic sizing for the GUI, allowing it to adjust based on the window size while arranging GUI elements accordingly.
Status Messages Panel
Purpose: To inform users about the execution process status, including start and end times of processes and any error messages.
Implementation: Integrate a panel into the GUI that displays status messages for all processes, enhancing user feedback and engagement.
Command-line Arguments for GUI
Current Behavior: GUI does not accept command-line arguments, limiting pre-configuration options.
Expected Behavior: Allow users to preset GUI fields via command-line arguments, supporting arguments like --props, --mode, --projectName, etc., for streamlined setup and execution.
Tooltips in the UI
Current Behavior: Lack of tooltips makes it challenging for users to understand the purpose and required input for various fields.
Expected Behavior: Add question mark icons (?) next to input fields that, when clicked, display tooltips or windows with detailed descriptions and helpful documentation links.
Multilanguage Support
Current Behavior: The GUI is available only in English.
Expected Behavior:
Introduce a language selector in the top-right corner of the GUI.
Externalize language strings to properties files (e.g., language_en.properties, language_hu.properties) for easy addition of new languages, starting with Hungarian.
Displaying Pro Tips
Goal: Facilitate users' transition from intermediate to professional by offering pro tips on more advanced usage.
Implementation: Show pro tips from a protips.json file in a designated area of the GUI, styled in a light orange box with a light bulb icon. Ensure the pro tips feature is only active when the JSON file exists and contains at least one tip.
Action Items
[ ] Implement dynamic resizing for the GUI to enhance layout flexibility.
[ ] Integrate a status messaging panel to provide real-time process updates.
[ ] Enable presetting of GUI fields through command-line arguments.
[ ] Add tooltips with descriptions and links for various GUI fields to aid user input.
[ ] Introduce multilanguage support with an initial addition of Hungarian, externalizing strings to properties files.
[ ] Develop the pro tips feature, ensuring it dynamically loads from protips.json and is appropriately styled and positioned in the GUI.
Goal
These enhancements aim to make the application's GUI more adaptable, informative, and user-friendly, thereby improving the overall user experience and facilitating a smoother, more intuitive interaction with the application.
Objective
To significantly improve the GUI's flexibility, usability, and user guidance by implementing dynamic sizing, adding a status message panel, enabling command-line arguments, introducing tooltips, providing multilanguage support, and displaying pro tips.
Enhancements Overview
Dynamic GUI Sizing
Status Messages Panel
Command-line Arguments for GUI
--props,--mode,--projectName, etc., for streamlined setup and execution.Tooltips in the UI
Multilanguage Support
language_en.properties,language_hu.properties) for easy addition of new languages, starting with Hungarian.Displaying Pro Tips
protips.jsonfile in a designated area of the GUI, styled in a light orange box with a light bulb icon. Ensure the pro tips feature is only active when the JSON file exists and contains at least one tip.Action Items
protips.jsonand is appropriately styled and positioned in the GUI.Goal
These enhancements aim to make the application's GUI more adaptable, informative, and user-friendly, thereby improving the overall user experience and facilitating a smoother, more intuitive interaction with the application.