jordanl2/modularcalculatorinterface

modularcalculatorinterface's Issues

Add auto-execute mode

Would be nice to have an option to activate automatic execution each time the input changes.

If it is too resource intensive to update after every change, maybe add a bit of latency and update the output after 1 or 2 seconds of unmodified input.

(Originally opened by @Tommimon here: JordanL2/ModularCalculator#48)

Means to copy and export output

A button to export results as CSV: question, answer

Export button should use icon 'x-office-spreadsheet'

Search in categorised selection dialog

Add a text box at top of dialog, focussed by default, that filters the list when typed into.

If you press down arrow, the list of items is focussed on. Pressing enter inserts the selected item.

Updates should auto enable new features

When the app is updated to a new version, user should automatically get any new features for the preset they have selected.

Simplify themes

Currently themes have a separate entry for every element type, which makes adding features complicated.

Simplify themes to have fewer definitions, so new elements can use an existing colour for syntax highlighting.

Copy/paste removes leading spaces

Eg, copying " to " and pasting actually pastes "to ".

Switching tab re-executes

Switching tab should be fast because the answer panel content should be cached.

Port to Qt6

Switch from PyQt5 to PyQt6.

This is blocked by org.kde.Sdk / Platform not having a 6.x release yet.

Show comments in answer panel

Comments make it easier to read the output. Try to include them in the output.

Option for rounding

Add option in Calculator tab for rounding setting.

Insert dialogies - double click on item

Double clicking on an option in an insert dialogue should automatically use that item and insert it, without needing to click OK.

Make modularcalculator a submodule

Update README, and setup.py if needed

Make font configurable

Add font option to settings.

Possibly one for each of:

1. entry
2. display: question
3. display: answer
4. display: fraction

Can undo to a blank page with an opened file

After opening a file, if you Undo, you end up with an empty page. Shouldn't have an empty undo step at the start of the history.

Middle clicking answer with a fraction answer pastes both

Either:

1. it should paste the one you middle clicked on
2. it should paste the fraction (since its more accurate)
3. or just remove this functionality

Update screenshots with new themes

Move execution syntax highlighting to separate process

For actual multithreading, move it to a separate process.

Make changelog

For:
1.1.0 (initial release)
1.2.0 (fractions)
1.2.1 (bug fixes, middle clicking fractions)
1.3.0 (config files, themes, double clicking insert dialogues, no longer hiding feature config window when opening file picker, bug fixes with display styling, fast tab switching)

Refactor menu code into menumanager

Option to display numerical answers in specified format

Eg: Default, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal, Scientific Notation

Should be able to use the number_casters in the engine to derive list of formats, and the function to convert to them.

Option in 'Output' tab.

Syntax highlighting glitchy

Editing statements near the top of a long list of statements is causing visual glitching.

Disabling "show execution errors" stops the glitching.

Rework menu

Flatten menu hierarchy, into a few top level buttons:

Left aligned

• New (document-new)
• Open (document-open)
• Save (document-save)
• Save As (document-save-as)
• Insert (menu) (insert-text)
• Execute (media-playback-start)
• Clear Results (edit-clear)
• Export Results (go-down ???)

Right Aligned

• Options (preferences-other)
• Help (menu) (help-about)

Redo syntax highlighting

Rewrite syntax highlighting to make it faster, and less complicated.

Error with functions

min([1, 2])

Resulting with:

[ERROR: Operator IMPLICIT_MULTIPLY parameter 1 must be of type(s) number, ERROR: Operator IMPLICIT_MULTIPLY parameter 1 must be of type(s) number]

Started with commit 68bdda5

Function to forcibly change units

Function needed that replaces a value's units to a different unit(s), without doing any conversion.

Config file UI

Move into config:
Display

• Units in short form
• Show execution errors
• Line Highlighting
• Selected theme

Calculator

• Precision
• Simplify Units
• Unit System Preference
• Installed features / external features
• Feature Options

Changing any of the above options will save the config to any existing config.yml in a user directory the calculator has write access to, or if none found, to the highest precedence user directory.

Then, make a tabbed options dialog combining all of the options checkboxes / dialogs, plus options for the fonts and max_denominator.

Move 'new' button to the tab bar

Instead of being in the Toolbar, make it a "+" button on the right of the tab bar.

Force dialogs to sensible minimum size

Ensure dialogs are a sensible size, possibly using label of certain widths etc to force the dialog size.

Workaround for what seems to be a Qt bug.

'What's new' dialog when updating app

When app is updated from a previous version, display what is new.

Syntax highlighting options

Move syntax highlighting colours into an external file.
Make it possible to add new themes and select them.

Turning off line highlighting needs to refresh other tabs

Line highlighting seems to be enabled per tab.

Also check show execution errors.

Investigate if Features window hiding can be removed

To make the interface work better with Sway, when the file picker is opened in the Install/Remove Features window, the window is hidden.
It's possible this is no longer needed since the xdg-foreign protocol has been implemented in Sway:
swaywm/wlroots#2487
Test with Sway and remove if possible.

Check application state version on load

If the application state format or attributes of the objects it contains changes, this can cause a crash on start.

Add a version to the state, and don't restore state on startup if it has changed.

Alternatively add code to convert between different versions.

Fix dialog sizes

Set all dialogs to a reasonable fixed size.

Update screenshots

Insert Unit, Operator, Function should have "All" category

The dialogs for inserting a unit, operator or function should have a category named "All" that lists all units/operators/functions.

It should be at the top of the category list and be the default selected.

Improve dialog sizing

Replace screenRelativeSize with a pixel width/height in all instances.

Make help/about section

Help menu with:

1. Links to ModularCalculator Wiki
2. About dialog with version number, dev info, github URL (flatpak info?)

Update README

Delete wiki, and ensure readme has all important information from it.

Add a section for adding config file / themes.