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 PENDING
• 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 Incorporating the tabs into the tree, and adding functionality to the tree.
• DUNCAN Overall layout of the GUI
• RAGGY Improving the Experiments pane
• SEBASTIAN Redesigning the toolbar(s)
• CHARLES Starting to play with the editor code (undo, redo, error messaging etc)
• ADAM Making the options menus look better

Completed Subtasks

• 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.

Bugs

• In options menu, if you select an item for edit then deselect, user loses the ability to edit the item again.

-- DuncanHarrison - 10 Oct 2006