Week 20 Progress Report

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# Topics To Be Covered In This Post
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What I did this week
- Pushing code to Gerrit.
- Added drop-down in settings to pick configs.
- Refactored config.py and settings.py to handle user preferences better.
What I plan to do next

# Pushing to Gerrit
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This week, major work was completed for the AGL Demo Control Panel and commits were made for review on Gerrit. The following changes have been pushed so far:

Changes pushed so far:

29255: agl-demo-control-panel: Update and add new assets | https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/c/src/agl-demo-control-panel/+/29255 (merged)
29270: agl-demo-control-panel: Add grpc support for databroker | https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/c/src/agl-demo-control-panel/+/29270 (merged)
29279: agl-demo-control-panel: Refactor Settings, Config and UI scaling | https://gerrit.automotivelinux.org/gerrit/c/src/agl-demo-control-panel/+/29279

User preference
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The settings page saw the inclusion of new parameters for the user to configure including

Port: No longer hard-coded into the application.
AGL’s CA.pem (Toggle): Optional parameter if the user wants to test on local builds of databroker and kuksa-val-server.
Drop-down combo box to pick default configs specified in config.ini.

Config
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The default configuration is no longer loaded into the settings page by the config.py module, instead, it acts as a relay module to parse the user’s preferred configuration(s) specified in the config.ini file.

The new implementation allows the user to reconnect to a different instance of the kuksa server(s) seamlessly, as the new config is loaded and fed to the kuksa_instance.py module based on the state of the parameters of the settings page.

UI Tweaks
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The main UI of the AGL Demo Control Panel saw some quality and functional changes this week, including:

Grab handle is now available at the bottom-right of the main window to help resize the window.
Settings page was revised to follow a 2 column layout to make the preferences more accessible and legible.