Add graphical user interface

roskakori / cutplace

validate data stored in CSV, PRN, ODS or Excel files

http://cutplace.readthedocs.org/

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Add graphical user interface #77

Closed roskakori closed 9 years ago

roskakori commented 9 years ago

The current graphical user interface is broken (mostly caused by the migration to Python 3 with #56). Instead of fixing it, it seems prudent to investigate possible improved solutions, e.g.:

provide a web interface (as before) but with the improved Python 3 classes and possibly without compatibility with Python 2.
provide a local GUI using tkinter.

This possibly obsoletes #10: Add test case for web validation.

roskakori commented 9 years ago

Implementation note:

Add --gui option to command line client and call:

  set PYTHONPATH=C:\Users\me\workspace\cutplace
  python -m cutplace._cutplace --gui

roskakori commented 9 years ago

@butterhirsch: as discussed yesterday I changed the CID-PATH command line option to be optional provided that --gui has been specified.

roskakori commented 9 years ago

Usability improvements:

File dialogs should preserve the location when clicked a second time.
Replace modal dialogs for status messages ("Validation finished" etc") with a status line right to the validate button.
Change label "Cid" to "CID"
Change error message on missing CID to "CID_PATH must be specified" to be consistent with command line.
If CID-PATH and DATA-PATH are specified, use them as default in the corresponding text fields.
Add version number to title bar similar to cutplace.applications:

from cutplace import __version__

Also add a status message during validation that shows how many rows have been processed every 3 seconds.

roskakori commented 9 years ago

@butterhirsch: I did a little testing with Mac OS X 10.10, this is what the GUI currently looks like: Apparently this needs some rework ;-)

I'm going to look into it, supposedly using the grid geometry manager will fix this.

roskakori commented 9 years ago

@butterhirsch: The dialog now uses the grid geometry manager however it is no longer resizeable. Getting grids to resize properly seems to be a non trivial task with tk... A few hints on this can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10464928/tk-grid-wont-resize-property but this still didn't help.

roskakori commented 9 years ago

The current incarnation of the GUI is live starting with 0.8.6. There room for improvement but for now we can consider this done.