This week has seen the actual introduction to the project codebase. The actual GUI setup is apparently auto generated from a application. It’s an interesting API to learn about as the GUIs I have worked on the past have all been manually created. I don’t really know whether to think that this is a better option than the alternative. I can see it being helpful if someone wants an easier time to create a general front end interface that does not provide much functionality. However, for very specific actions can problem cause some road blocks in the future. This is not very important, as much of the front end interface has already been finished.
Setting up the webcam and the actual program started with some faults. The Setup page didn’t describe exactly which folder the virtual environment was supposed to be setup in python. This led to some frustration. Along with this, one of the included libraries in the requirements.txt didn’t work, so I had to go out through some discussions online to find a workaround for it. It’s good to keep this in mind in the future, as the program we create will need to be tested on a clean environment setup wise.
The design document so far has been a pretty confusing document to create. The document example helps a bit but it will take a while for my team to figure out what exactly we will want to put down for each of the different design concerns and concepts. Usually a the group documents consists of a lot of combining the different individual documents. However this one requires a lot more conversation about what the contents will be.
