ibrar-hussain / cs311s20pid26

This repository is for the semester project in which File compression Tool will be built.

CS311S20PID26

This repository is for the semester project in which File compression Tool will be built.

cs311s20pid26's Issues

Can be made more User Friendly (Improvement in UI)

There are some suggestion for improvement in UI are here:

1. Group can use File Upload tool box with better style to show the user the text that Click here to Select file instead of just three dots as it is little confusing.
2. When at last message shows that file has compressed or decompressed it must show that path where it has store. as output files were storing at default location not at user specified location.

Improvement in Backend

Suggestion for improvement in backend are here:

1. While opening the application we have to click on setup for each time and it was every time installing it. There should be some way to install it once and then use it with just one click..
2. At the time saving output file ask user to give it name as file are storing at default location with default name that is very confusing if many files are stored there.
3. Same as point no 2 path should be user defined not default.

Issue with Algorithm

As App was only compressing/decompressing text files so if the text file contain some special symbols in it or mathematical symbol algorithm find it a little bit more difficult to handle along with large file so algorithm can be improve to handle symbols along with characters.
As it is a desktop application so you can use database with it to make it more easy for the user to browse his/her previously compressed files from history saved in app.

Slow for files with size in KBs

We have tried to compress files of different size randomly. Very small size files are compressing or decompressing the way they are supposed to be. But for file with size in KB or greater they are taking a lot time. e.g. For 18 KB file it was taking around 5 minutes in total with detail is 3 minutes for files compressing or decompressing and then 2 minutes to it was browsing to show message that file has compressed.