FluidAE 3 is a graphical environment for developing user-friendly applications in the Euphoria programming language.

Under construction

Development Status of Planned Features

FluidAE3 is very stable, but is a long way from a final release. I have a huge list of planned features that need to be added before it will be considered complete. This page is for tracking the progress of the development of FluidAE.

Folder structure

• New folder in alpha5:
  • /apps folder will contain any applications written in FluidAE
  • /modules folder will contain folders of shared libraries used by other modules or applications.
  • /docs folder will contain FluidAE documentation

Standards that need to be developed:

• application design
• module design
• widgetclass design
• GUI theme design
• loading images
• multi-process communication protocol and API design
• Canvas Object libraries , which can add objects to a canvas widget (such as: calendar, hypertext, vector drawing objects, charts, etc.)
• Widget Set libraries , which provide commonly-needed sets of widgets that can be created in a panel (such as: select folder, list files, select font, select color, calendar date/time selector, etc.)
• Common dialog libraries , which can put a Widget Set in a window, or create other common dialog windows (such as: file open/save, print, search/replace, etc.)
• Configuration file I/O : lets each application easily save/load config information in XML files (such as: last window position, user preferences, data file locations, network settings, etc.)
• App/Module installation and dependency checking system: each module and app needs to indicate which modules it needs, so those modules can be installed with it

Widget Classes

• Window - incomplete
• Dialog - Going to merge with Window, add property {"allow_resize", 0} to act like dialog
• Screen - Going to merge with Window, add properties {"show_border", 0} and {"fullscreen", 1} to act like Screen
• Container - Need to add group label and border, fix bugs
• Divider - incomplete
• Tabs - not implemented yet
• Toolbar - not implemented yet
• Panel - not implemented yet
• Button - incomplete
• Toggle - incomplete
• Option - incomplete
• Progress - incomplete
• Slider - incomplete
• Textbox - incomplete
• Textedit - incomplete
• Treebox - incomplete
• Listbox - incomplete
• Fancylist - incomplete
• Canvas - incomplete
• Scrollbar - incomplete
• Menubar - incomplete
• Menu - incomplete
• List - incomplete
• Statusbar - not implemented yet
• Toolbutton - not implemented yet
• Tooltext - not implemented yet
• Toollist - not implemented yet

Widget Themes and color schemes

• not implemented yet

Graphics

• Advanced features not implement yet (alpha, bitmap scaling & rotation, gradients, bezier curves, etc)
• other file formats (png, jpg, svg, gif, etc.)

Cross-platform support

• win32 currently implemented, need to clean up code and a generic layer with ifdef statements to select the correct platform
• need to research how to implement Linux, BSD, and MacOS wrappers

Multi-process communication (parent-children or peer-to-peer modes)

• child process control (start/kill processes) - works
• API - incomplete
• communication protocol - incomplete
• shared memory communication - incomplete
• TCP/IP communicatino - not implemented yet

FTDI USB device communication

• API - incomplete
• communication protocol - incomplete

Useful pre-made dialogs

• not implemented yet

Integrated Development Environment

• not implemented yet

XML Settings File for each application

• API - not implemented yet