oopsoverflow / i-see-stats

A GUI to locate sea creatures 🌊

I See Stats

A GUI to locate sea creatures 🌊

About

This app is designed to track and locate different sea creatures.
The user can enter the scientific name of any species he wants to track
and the app will fetch the required data and show it on an interactive GUI.

Dependencies

1. Java 16 SE
2. JavaFX 16
3. JUint 5
4. ModelImporter
5. JsonParser

How To Run

This Project was built with Maven. All dependencies are included in the .jar file
downloadable from the Release Section.
you can then run the following command:

$ java -jar I-See-Stats.jar

Features

Ergonomic UI

Tab Panes where used to organize different controls in an ergonomic and easily accessible way.
Hence, a less crowded control board and a logical repartitions of options.

Skybox

The 8K HD skybox simulates a spacial view of earth. (It just looks beatiful)

Normal and Specular Maps

Normal and Specular Maps where added to give more realism to Earth's Texture.

Sun

It also makes the Scene look beautiful, and improves the UX, so why not.

Player

The User can play the evolution of species numbers through years and see how things went for certain species.

i-see-stats's Issues

User feedback in case of errors

We need to provide a ui solution to tell the user something went wrong.

-> solutions include:

• A popup window (error dialog w/ message) (may be too invasive ?)
• A colored banner with the error message, on the top or bottom of the window (similar to SceneBuilder's)
• a message in the "Search" tab, where errors are most likely to occur

-> Errors include:

• Server error (url not found)
• Invalid inputs (e.g. species name nut found ; startDate > endDate)
• JSON error (url did not fail, but parser failed - might be a bug in I-See-Stats of the database)

Pierre did a push

Pierre did a push, we lost everything

GUI Styling: CSS font not working.

Tried adding new font to the GUI through CSS, Instead of Scene Builder's boring ones.
It doesn't seem to work on neither Scene Builder or the actual run.

@font-face {
    font-family: SourceSansPro;
    src: url('SourceSansPro-Bold.ttf');
}
.label *.text{
    -fx-font-family: "SourceSansPro";
}

What I already tried to do:
Changing path to font in style.css
Forcing font in the fxml file.

Both didn't work.