evan-coulter / recipe-elephant

An JavaFX Desktop Recipe Book Application

Recipe Elephant

A JavaFX Recipe Book Application

recipe-elephant's Issues

Turn VBox Lists into Actual Lists

• Need to do this to add proper drag and drop features for recipes.

Add some Sample Recipes to your own version

Make Video Showing Use & Put on ReadME

Improve Homepage UI

see Figma mockup for instructions

Prevent opening View Recipe and Edit Recipe windows when there are no recipes.

Possibly create a no created recipes exception and in the open window method in HomeController, surround the code with try catch to prevent opening windows. In the try block you'll successfully open a window. In the catch block you'll show an error message telling them to create a recipe first.

Create Nice User Interface

Need to create a nice user interface for application,

• Likely using CSS in combination with the FXML files to create a nice looking user interface.
• Also need to find a way to make text wrap if its really long for rows like steps and ingredients.
• Also need to choose a consistent height and width for windows, It should be ok to be fixed.
• Replace elephant.png with your own drawing.
• Optionally can also try to find a better way to layout the home page
• Prevent Resizing of all windows

Some Points About Design Choices and Prototypes,
font: roboto condensed bold and cabin regular.
colours: white(background), black(text), shadow blue(hex: #7A93AC)(accent & buttons), and (hex: #8585e0) (button hover)
prototype.pdf

Redo Storage to Be An Actual in-memory DB

probably w/ sql lite but do some research on this first

Add Method to Turn App into an Executable

Redo Logo to be 512x512 pixels

Current Logo looks pretty bad when it gets compressed on app. Making it 512x512 should fix everything.

Smaller Features

App has basic functionality but still needs these smaller features,

• Delete Created Recipes
• Edit Created Recipes
• Clickable buttons in view recipe for user to keep track of what they've completed for each recipe.
• Help Window
• Make View Recipe's Lists into scroll panes so their content is always reachable.
• "No Created Recipes Yet" Pop Up.

Add Deployability Features

Need to create a way to turn app into DMG and EXE file.

• Should add link on GITHUB page to download this file
• Should also add a simple ICON for app
• Maybe a simple video showing how it works
• Read instructions how on to do this from https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/deployment/packaging.htm#BABFECGG chapters 5&6