tactilevision/tactjam-client

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tactjam-client's Issues

Switch for 3D Model

A button is used to switch between camera control and positioning of the actuators. To find out which state is active, the button must be pressed once (only one state can be displayed at a time). It would be better to have a controller that displays both states and thus gives the user more security.

Open Console

The application starts with the console open. This is of no importance to the user and should be closed.

no reconnect to the device

When I unplug the device from the PC the client does not reconnect to it.

Upload errors

Test 1

I created a tacton and attached some actuators in the GUI. I tried several combinations to fill the form.
The submission form seems to have some bugs or at least is not so user friendly in terms of feedback.

Only tacton name

string: "test_04_23_001"
result: 🛑 error POST https://itactjam.informatik.htw-dresden.de/tactons/combined 400 from saveLayout.tsx

string: "test"
result: ✅

string: "test 04 23 001"
result: ✅

conclusion & suggestion:

• validate string before sending to avoid exceptions
• handle exceptions
• provide hints which characters are not allowed

Test 2

I created no tacton and attached no actuators in the GUI.

result: ✅ which I would say is actually an error

conclusion & suggestion:

• check if anything meaningful is set, e.g. tacton and/or actuator placements

GUI-SaveLayout

There is a form to save the recieved pattern. The fields are complete but some nice styling is missing. Also some buttons, like to create new tags.

Submit Bug

The upload of the tacton is not executed when the submit button is pressed.If it is executed (there is no feedback), the application remains in the submit state and does not return to the initial screen.

Not all bodytags are shown on import layout if the list is long

unified tag name format

Some of the tags start with capital letters. I would suggest to transform all tags to lower case - also when someone creates a new tag.

Show alert when received a new tacton from the device on a given slot

Add numbers to color coding of actuators in 3D view

Keep data in save layout when switching between slots

GUI- Pattern of the Actuators

The client has to display the received pattern of the actuators. In the left side of the mainlayout.

Note on camera control

To ensure correct use, a note on camera control could be displayed in the main view (e.g. bottom left).

The display is only necessary if camera control is activated.

The following text is conceivable.
rotate - Left mouse button
move - Right Mouse Button or Left Mouse Button + Ctrl
zoom - mouse wheel or two fingers on the dragpad

Conn-ImportLayou

The Importlayout graphical is ready, but the connection to the server is missing to receive the metadata and display the collected data correct

Save and Load tacton data

How do we store tacton data and save/load it on or from the server?

GUI-Vibros Placement

The user need on the right side to choose where are the actuators on the body placed (3D Modell). It should display on the right side of the mainlayout

order tag names alphabetically

Login page - Enable login for users

Wording Tooltip

Currently used:
Import from the server
Upload to the server

To improve consistency I suggest:
Download from the server
Upload to the server

Reset views - Do we want to enable a reset feature to restart a tacton from scratch?

3D view - Integrate code from Jonas

Cancel Save Action

if I want to save a tacon and then cancel the operation, then the footer reports that the tacon was saved successfully.

Connection panel

We are missing a connection panel indicating whether the device is currently connected.

Implement device connection with Proto buffers

Doc of proto buffers can be found here: doc

GUI-Device connected

The client has to display if there are at the moment a device connected or not. If not a reconnect has to be possible. If the app is started, the first page has to be that a device have to be connected with a refresh button.

Time profile of actuators should be unique to each tab

Cannot submit tacton without tags (custom or body, or only one of the two)

import error

When I try to import (download) a tacton I get the following error:
Uncaught TypeError: First argument to DataView constructor must be an ArrayBufferfrom vtp.cjs

I tested with all available tactons.

Connection-Tags

The client has to receive the possible tags of the body and the pattern metadata tags. Also to create new tags and push them to the server.

Register - missing feedback

Incorrect entries are returned by the server with the message 400 (console) and are not displayed in the diaglog for registration.

User needs reason for failure to register

Tacton saved notification overlaps with 3D view button

Hide Login/Register

Hide login area for easier use

Overwrite tactons - Give user the possibility to overwrite or save tacton as new when loaded

Buttons to switch between own and all tactons

It would be really good, to have some sort of button switch or something like that, where you can choose between your own tactons and all tactons when you are downloading a tacton.

Connection-Importlayout

The Importlayout graphical is ready, but the connection to the server is missing to receive the metadata and display the collected data correct