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B — GUI 🔗 ℹ

Due Wedneaday, 20 September 2023, 11:59pm

Motivation Dealing with geometric ideas, such as the map of The Q Game, needs visualization support. So let’s explore our chosen TAHBPL before we get too deep into the project and it is too late to switch.

Purpose to explore the GUI libraries of the chosen programming language; to figure out command-line arguments; to deliver software as specified

Delivery You must deliver xgui in a directory called B in your repository.

All auxiliary files must be put into a sub-directory called B/Other/.

Task Develop xgui, a program that processes an arbitrarily long stream of JSON arrays from STDIN. Each array has the following shape:

    [ "file is:", BFileName, BObj, ..., BObj ]

    

    where

     BObj is { "shape" : BShape, "color" : BColor }

     BShape is one of "star", "8star", "square", "circle", "diamond";

     BColor is one of "red", "green", "blue", "yellow", "orange", "purple";

     BFileName is a non-empty String consisting of alphanumeric chars,

       that is, it satisfies the regular expression ^[a-z0-9A-Z]+\.png.

    

When a JSON value arrives on the input side, xgui interprets the array as a specification of a sequence of colored shapes and saves the concatenated shapes as a single PNG image in the specified file (in the current directory). If the file exists, xgui replaces it. After the file is saved, xgui sends JSON string "done" to STDOUT. The next JSON array (if any) arrives on the STDIN stream only after "done" has appeared. Once xgui discovers that STDIN is exhausted, it shuts down.

Well-formed and Valid You may assume that all inputs to your test harnesses from STDIN are well-formed and valid. A well-formed piece of JSON satisfies the grammar; such a piece is valid if it also satisfies all the side constraints of a schema specification.

For example, if the input stream contains the following JSON array

    ["file is:","1b2.png",{"color":"red","shape":"star"},{"color":"blue","shape":"square"},{"color":"green","shape":"8star"}]

the program would save the following image in "1b2.png"

    image

Your program’s rendering of the various shapes and colors must be such that a user of xgui can easily correlate the visual appearances with the specification. Otherwise you may use your imagination.

Optional If given "–show" on the command line, your program also opens a window, renders the shape in the window, and waits for a mouse click. When the mouse button is down, the program continues with writing the file and signals the end of processing this element. A STDIN stream with three arrays would thus open three windows.

You will want to run xgui with "–show" only on your own development laptop, because Systems has taken away the VDI machines. See —Delivery.

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