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stormrose-va / xobox

Orange Box Flight Data Analysis for X-Plane

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New UI #21

Open daemotron opened 7 years ago

daemotron commented 7 years ago

Summary

Write a more flexible UI, offering a clean interface on which different UIs can be built.

Minimum UIs to be provided:

Command Line Interface
Local Web Interface

Expected Behaviour

Command Line Interface using a syntax similar to git: xobox [options] command [arguments]
Local web interface (one-page application) which is either invoked when calling xobox without any further arguments or commands, or when calling xobox web.

Actual Behaviour

Only CLI, with a "dirty" integration / no clean API

Environment

xobox version: 0.1.dev20170421195243
Python version: 3.6.1
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro

daemotron commented 7 years ago

Consider using a modern electron-based web/desktop integration (cf. fyears/electron-python-example).

Rough outline, to be further matured:

Isolate Python code in a clean package
Build code with a dedicated RPC API and a proper CLI
Use electron to invoke the pythonic part of the application
create installable bundles for Python on all supported platforms (Win, Mac, Linux)
create a full-sized installable bundle using Electron

Architecture-wise, this would allow also to use Squirrel for online updates of the application bundle (to be further investigated).