Hello everybody,
This is a bit of a long shot. I have an idea for how to implement a very lightweight cross-platform LAMMPS GUI, but I am looking for someone with experience in programming GUI applications with Qt (so I don’t have to re-learn it myself, my experience with Qt was about 25 years ago with versions 1.x and 2.x, after which I preferred a different cross-platform toolkit).
An initial version would be essentially something like a plain text editor (a la notepad) with an extra button to create a LAMMPS instance, feed it the text buffer, and then collect and view the created (text) output. This minimal version I am confident I can build myself based on existing tutorial materials, but I have ideas that would incorporate features from the LAMMPS shell and beyond that into the GUI, and those would require more experience with Qt than what I currently possess. However, I don’t want to stray very far from the setup similar to that of a terminal and a text editor that is common for many LAMMPS “power users”. That means no visualization (except perhaps for using write_dump image).
I am happy to elaborate more, if needed, and describe some of the additional functionality I have in mind. Just ask questions below. Also, if somebody has suggestions for “must have” features
If you are serious (and have the time!!), please contact me at [email protected].
Update 2023-07-26:
The GUI code is already quite usable. It was surprisingly easy to bring this to the current state. If anyone wants to try and give feedback, the source code is now available on GitHub: Add simple LAMMPS GUI using Qt library by akohlmey · Pull Request #3870 · lammps/lammps · GitHub
