More Trapezites Updates!

I had a long meeting with Stacy to get some coding help. I was having an issue with building the logic for the dropdowns. They needed to be filtered every time another dropdown was selected, but each dropdown needed to remain clickable so the user could change their selection. Stacy looked through the code with me and ultimately decided that the whole things needed some refactoring.

We want to take a “object oriented” approach, which basically means that he wants to compartmentalize the various elements (currencies, regions, time periods, etc) into individual “objects.” Each of these objects then should contain functions to build their own dropdowns and filtering logic. Kind of confusing, but basically this change will require me to rewrite a lot of Rodrigo’s code. Luckily, I can still keep a lot of his logic. It’s just a matter of rewriting it to fit the new format.

So that’s essentially what I’ve been doing. This past week, I’ve been working specifically on bringing in the client’s currency data from the google spreadsheet and processing it to fit the logic in the code.

Other than that, I’ve helped make a few new STA sites in Cascade and write up short documentation for Vlabs.

Since my last post, there’s been a couple of major changes to the project!

First off, I’ve managed to code the site as a currency converter instead of a coin converter like I mentioned in my last post. I had to bring in the updated spreadsheet data and change up the code to use that data instead.

I also fixed issues where the filter dropdowns weren’t registering. There’s still work that needs to be done regarding those (including searching through the dropdowns and an issue where the other options disappear when one is selected).

Trapezites Progress

I recently had a code review with Stacy to go over 1) the code Rodrigo and I wrote and 2) how we should approach refactoring the HTML before implementing Lesser’s design. We realized a couple of things about how the site is working:

First, the site currently works as a “coin converter” instead of a currency converter (i.e. It converts from quarters to pence instead of US currency to UK currency). Stacy emailed the client about this, and it seems like we’ll be needing to change up the algorithm to make it a currency converter instead.

Second, some of the elements in Lesser’s design (like the addition of 2 time period fields instead of a single one) don’t reflect the current functionality of the site. So we’ll need to clarify some things with the client about this as well.

Stacy told me to hold off on making any big changes to functionality before we get to meet with the clients again. I’m just going to be updating the HTML for now.

Currently, the site looks like this:

And this is Lesser’s most recent design:

Lesser (the designer) send me the UI designs he came up with. I plan on starting to implements the CSS for it next week.

Currently, I’m still trying to complete the making change functionality. I’m having a little trouble, but progress is slowly being made!