GUI - Githubissues

henry2004y commented 2 years ago

Do we need it or not? What we may gain from it:

faster exploration of data
- choose file by clicking
- display metadata in a window
- preset plotting options
- interactive 3D slices and views manipulation

Why don't we do it:

limited experience in GUI design
limited time
hard to select a development platform
- GTK+Glade? (I have actually tried this for Batsrus.jl, but gave up at some point due to some kind of limitations.)
- Makie? It now has a bunch of widgets available, from which I have already tried the slider. Maybe this is better if we want to explore Makie more in-depth
- Clm? A wrapper over a new C++ GUI library. Maintained mostly by Ginimuc himself.

henry2004y commented 2 years ago

Makie has an interesting range slide, which allows you to select a range of points in a given direction. This would be useful for quickly selecting a region.

henry2004y commented 2 years ago

Under the Genie framework, there is a UI development tool Stipple.jl. They also developed a GUI design interface. The only worry I have about this approach is that it seems to only support plotly.

henry2004y commented 2 years ago

Maybe TerminalMenus is a nice quick CLI tool to use?

I've added an experimental feature #75.

henry2004y commented 2 years ago

Qt5 wrapper in Julia: QML.jl

henry2004y commented 2 years ago

For demonstration purpose, or even my daily usage, Pluto notebooks seem to be a perfect option. I have started to create a notebook for demonstration.

henry2004y / Vlasiator.jl

GUI #43