About

The last tally marks app you and your business will ever need. It is written in Rust and built with Slint as the UI framework. Reelix should run on every desktop OS after compilation. Officially supported are (yet) only Linux and Windows.

WIP

Still in development(2024/09/20). I'm currently writing an API so that the clients dont edit the sql database. The clients will comunicate via the api and the api server will read from and to the sql database. Switching to Postgesql insted of MySQL. Maybe rewrite Reelix in dart and flutter, if I cant get slint to compile with qt backend

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Home Page of Reelix Version 0.0.4

Roadmap To 1.0

• Feature parity with Neelix
• Config needs to be configurable from the GUI
• Build binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux via Github actions

Things to add

On the Record panel

• Replace ComboBox with ComboBoxScroll
• Operating System selection in certain categories (doesn't disable if Support OS selection is deactivated) (linked to Go to Independent / Global Issues)
• A text box for comment info (implemented with LineEdit, waiting for a new upstream version for the text box placeholder, waiting for 1.6.1)#5229
• Select time for submitting (can't select yet, coming soon) Proper Date and Time picker widgets depend on upstream Tracked in issue #46
• Select location of the issue (needs to be rewritten to use the database)
• Select the number of tickets you want to create at once
• Submit button

On the Request-Log panel

• Dynamically created table sheet
• Show the latest 20 entries
• Ability to load older ones with an extra button
• Ability to remove accidentally created ones

On the Statistics panel

• Show stats from the last 7 days
• Option to ask for a specific date range
• Option to scroll back to the 7 days before the current week

On the Analysis panel

• Export SQL table to CSV or HTML
• Ability to select the date range

On the Category Management panel

• Create categories (types)
  • checkbox to set osselection enabled
• Delete categories (types)
  • shows if osselection is supported

On the Settings panel

• Ability to set a database timeout
• Ability to set a database server with an IPv4 address (in the future IPv6 and maybe domain name)
• Ability to set a database port
• Ability to set a database name
• Ability to set a database username
• Ability to set a database password
• Check if it would work
• Dark/light mode switch
• Save dark/light mode switch to config
• Theme switcher (fluent, cosmic, cupertino)
• Language selection

An Info panel

• Show some information about the application

Independent / Global Issues

• High contrast mode
• Multilanguage support
• Full keyboard support
• Shortcuts to panels

ComboBoxScroll

• Make the popup solid instead of transparent
• Scrolling works
• Theme works on it
• ComboBoxScroll supports key inputs
• ComboBoxScroll tab support
• Accessibility for blind people
• Selected (string) callback
• Fix theme issue in light mode
• Popup disappears if focus is shifted via tab and escape

RadioBoxes

• Change the selected color to be less vibrant

RadioButton

• Works as intended
• Support all common properties

More things will be added in the future.

How this started

Reelix aimed to replace Neelix a similar program in the IT support of the University of Bamberg. Neelix was written around 2015-2017, and the source code seems to be lost. You needed to have Java installed and set a variable for JAVA_HOME. The database server used an unsupported Linux system. So I was happily invested in it, spending many many hours programming, debugging and learning. After around a month of work, I was told that Reelix should be abandoned. "The new ticket system would work for us, it isn't the effort worth." I asked if I could have the rights to the project and they said yes. So I'm working on it now in my free time if I have one

How to use

The easy way

Download the bin file for your operating system of choice.(If there is one)

The hard way

1. You have to install rustc and cargo (Rust Getting Started Guide)
2. Go to the tutorial and install cargo-generate

   cargo install cargo-generate
   

3. Clone this repo

   git clone https://github.com/develcooking/Reelix/
   

4. Change directory into it

   cd ./reelix
   

5. Smash your head against the wall
6. Build the binary

   cargo build
   

If this doesn't work, good luck.

Setting up the database

In the future there will be a script or subproject to set up the database

Install MariaDB or MySQL on a Linux system of your choice. Recommended: the latest stable release of Debian, currently 12. From: Digitalocean

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mariadb-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

Check if it worked

sudo systemctl status mariadb

Go into mariadb

sudo mariadb

Create a Database

CREATE DATABASE your_database_name;

Create a User with password

CREATE USER 'your_database_username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_database_password';

Then grant the user all permissions on the database (can be insecure)

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON your_database_name.* TO 'your_database_username'@'%';

Then grant the user acses to the the database from every host (can be insecure)

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'your_database_username'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'your_database_password' WITH GRANT OPTION;