To do list

Ardublockly To-do List

This is a list of pending actions and features planned for Ardublockly. This is not to be taken strictly, and a lot of these might just be ideas rather than a roadmap.

If you would like to contribute to the projects these could be some good areas to look into. It would probably be a good idea to open an issue in the GitHub issue tracker first to discuss if it's something worth doing and the best approach.

Ardublockly build system

• Create a single script to run all steps in a single command? (very low priority)

Ardublockly desktop wrapper

• Wait for resolution and implement appData directory move fixes https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/2721
• Move Electron front end changes script from ardublockly html injection into preload script executed from Electron
• Add menu to directly select amongst the different Arduino boards supported
• Executable app signing
• Check for "built python server executable", if not found check if python is installed, if it is then run the server in a python sub-process.

Python server

• Complete compilerserttings module unit test
• Complete actions module unit test module
• Check for more possible issues with unicode in Python 2
• Experiment with the --preserve-temp-files flag to maintain temporary files and speed up CLI compilation
• Remove tkinker file/directory selection and implement an html version
• The server should provide fully "headless" execution

Linux specific

• Test load sketch to board (current test in raspberry pi and ubuntu to load sketches in the IDE) with python 2 and 3
• Current port list shows all dev/tty, as all Arduinos should be connected by USB this list can be filtered to only show ttyUSBx ports

Mac OS X specific

• Test load sketch to board with python 2 and 3

Windows specific

• Nothing at the moment

Ardublockly front end

• Change delete all icon with "new"
• Similar to Arduino IDE, select area to display button action text, and change the text with button mouse over
• Ensure that basic empty sketch code shows on page load
• On low resolutions ensure the blockly vertical height is lower than the viewport
• Finish Spanish translation

Blockly

• Merge upstream changes until variables were reworked, ensure everything still works
• Merge upstream master with latest variable changes
• Type blocks are coming, ensure Ardublockly is ready
• Modify zoom icons to be smaller and placed in a different position
• Arduino setup and loop block can be copy/pasted using keyboard shorcuts, stop this from happening
• Refactor new variable name to be able to select custom name on single action and asynchronously

Blockly changes to submit upstream

• Any useful changes to the zoom functionality
• Use of window.prompt

Static typing

• logic_ternary block getType to defines type as that of its inputs
• logic_null block right now does not return a type, this might change
• math_number block 'errornumber' type used for debugging, remove
• math_arithmetic getType to check types of given inputs to decide between int or float. Right now first block within sets the type.
• math_constrain getType to check types of given inputs to decide between int or float. Right now first block within sets the type.
• math_number getType to use regular expressions more efficiently
• math_on_list to add static type if lists get implemented
• controls_for getVarType function
• controls_forEach block uses lists, these are not implemented in the Arduino generator (possible arrays), when implemented this block needs a getVarType, varType, and getType functions
• add getVarType to the procedures blocks
• the loops count type is set to int, user could input a decimal, so add input checking to determine type
• Number blocks automatically trim unnecessary decimal digits "x.0 => x", change this behaviour so that "x.0" can be set as a decimal

Arduino generator

• Text trim does not currently generate Arduino valid code

Arduino blocks

• Code generator for lists into arrays
• Create I2C communication blocks with hue 190
• Update the serial print block to specify explicit type (hex, str, int, etc)
• Look into all the serial functions and decide what else might fit in
• Allow to add return statement (to exit) inside the Arduino setup()/loop() functions

Future features

• Server component of the block creator to add files into project directory folder and have client side to read them and include them into the toolbox
• Serial console for comms with Arduino
• Serial data graphing
• SVG image creation to displayed used pins with given function
• Auto updating desktop application