danysk/alchemist-swingui

Graphical interface for Alchemist, Java-Swing based

Danilo Pianini

Senior assistant professor at the University of Bologna, chief architect of the Alchemist Simulator and the Protelis aggregate programming language, lead developer of dozens of open source libraries, and author of several scientific publications.

More information about me (including my CV) are available on my personal web page.

Mottos

Avoid premature optimization. First make it right, then make it fast—if it is not already fast enough.

Measure, don't guess.

All models are wrong, but some are useful

we never have the money to do it right but somehow we always have the fucking money to do it twice

— UserInputSucks (@UserInputSucks) May 27, 2019

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alchemist-swingui's Issues

Warning if OpenGL support is disabled

The UI should inform the user of reduced performance in case the OpenGL acceleration is not enabled (System.getProperty("sun.java2d.opengl") should return "true")

Fix the zooming

The initial zooming is often wrong

Get rid of Res.java

Res.java is plain wrong on all the possible levels. A property file should do its job.

Review "AFlowLayout"

AFlowLayout seems copypasted from somewhere, and should get reviewed

Create a UI that can run without the whole load/execute machinery

Support marker disabilitation

The current closest node marker is a problem when a screenshot is being grabbed. There should be a mean to disable it.

Drop L, use SLF4J

Allow loading of an effect file on single use GUI creation

As per subject

Screen configuration detection

The GUI should detect the screen configuration and set its size accordingly.

Improve link drawing performance

Enabling link drawing reduces the performance consistently. The process should get optimized.

Map tiles download gets stopped when a simulation ends

The tiles should be downloaded until a simulation is running, and should not instead be stopped when the simulation ends. Beware of memory leaks, because Mapsforge uses separate threads, and they want explicit termination signal.

Refactor the wormhole infrastructure

The wormhole infrastructure is clumsy and hard to understand. It should get refactored.

The perspective is named "SAPERE Perspective", but it should not

Perspectives have been, since quite a long time, incarnation-agnostic. The name of the tab should reflect such fact.

Add key bindings

The simulation must be controllable also by keyboard, e.g.:

• P for playing/pausing the simulation
• Left for slowing down the simulator
• R for realtime rendering
• Right for accelerating the simulator
• L for switching the link drawing on/off
• M for turning off the marker on the node closest to the pointer