Tasks

• Model Source Code Editor
• Icon Design
• Redesign Options Menus
• Context Menu / Tab / Toolbar Design
• Pane Layout
• Graph Display
• Log / Output Display
• Multiple projects at once (Gilmore deems unnecessary)
• Ensuring a consistant and intuitive interface

Research Areas

• Changing current "look and feel" including layout prototyping for component re-organisation and addition - Duncan DONE
• Getting other groups to submit required buttons/menu items/context menu items for the features that they are implementing - Adam ONGOING - See GUIWishList
• Market research: ask what current users of Prism find irritating or difficult to use in the current interface - Raggy DONE
• Examples of good current Java GUIs that we could take ideas from - Sebastian DONE
• Clear up ambiguities with Stephen Gilmore and initial organisation - Will DONE
• Investigations into Java Swing. Perhaps get some library books on this topic to give us methodologies on how to create a functional (yet stunning!) user interface - Charles DONE

Current Subtasks

• WILL Implementing further features for the new navigation menu
• DUNCAN Overall layout of the GUI, splash screen, loading bar, general debugging
• RAGGY Joining Charles to add further features to the editor
• SEBASTIAN Responding to requests for context menus and toolbar functionality
• CHARLES Improving the editor (undo - DONE, redo - DONE, line numbers - DONE, error messaging, indentation, bracket matching etc)
• ADAM Making the options menus look better and integrating the options with the main program.

Completed Subtasks

• SEBASTIAN Redesigning the toolbar(s)
• RAGGY Improving the Experiments pane
• WILL Improving the functionality of the tree.
• RAGGY Working on a questionaire for current users - cancelled
• SEBASTIAN Making a tree view instead of tabs for presentation to Gill on Wednesday 11th Oct
• WILL, DUNCAN Digging into the source code. Experiments with porting over to SWT. Generation of a class diagram for the entire system
• DUNCAN Research: viability of porting to SWT
• WILL Hacking Swing to make it look less javery.
• WILL Incorporating the tabs into the tree
• DUNCAN Overall layout of the GUI
• CHARLES Added undo/redo capabilities to the text model editor.
• CHARLES Added line numbers to the text model editor, with an error icon appearing on the line where an error occurs for a Prism model file.
• CHARLES Combined the Pepa and Prism model editors to make use of the undo/redo manager and line numbers in both.

Bugs

• In options menu, if you select an item for edit then deselect, user loses the ability to edit the item again.
• The whole window is resizing in a non deterministic way.

-- DuncanHarrison - 10 Oct 2006