Script Wizard UI

[benloh]

See #400 for mockups.

Was #115 for Round 2.

[benloh]

In GitLab by @daveseah on Sep 15, 2021, 11:40

unassigned @daveseah

[benloh]

In GitLab by @daveseah on Sep 20, 2021, 13:57

sri's concept mapping phase (thought experiments and model refinement only)

what is it

Script Wizard GUI is the student-facing interface for GEMSCRIPT, requiring no knowledge of the scripting language.

background

Currently the script gui is closely mapped to the script language primitives (e.g. keyword arg arg arg, which was never intended to also serve as the final structure. The GUI ultimately knows how to "transpile" its visual representation into scriptText form.

additional technical requirements

• must support in-development chunks of pre-written scriptText - Real-life script development relies on researchers pre-writing chunks of difficult code as the script engine evolves. While ultimately these features would be converted into "GFeatures", the reality is that for the trial we need to support chunks of script text that are "blackboxed" in the GUI.

[benloh]

In GitLab by @daveseah on Sep 20, 2021, 14:50

gui visual language

The GEMSTEP "Characters" are instances of Blueprints. The GUI is a visual construction set used to create/modify Blueprints.

There is similarity to Blockly and Scratch on the feature level, though I'm familiar with it only from seeing screenshots over the years.

• direct manipulation interface
• ? elements have "magnetism" to snap to each other for drag and drop?
• use of operational blocks, with parameters contained inside each opblock
• blocks can be contained inside other blocks
• context-sensitive choice parameterization, using dropdown
• line and operation building through inline "add" controls

The runtime display requirements are something separate, but relate closely to to the elements that are defined in the script itself

[benloh]

changed time estimate to 400h