[Design/Medical] ChemMaster Batch QoL

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Preface

ChemMaster's current layout is good and usable. Hence, this document highlights what ChemMaster could be, not what it must be. The changes below address tiny inconveniences which mainly affect medical chemists. Accordingly, the changes are from the subjective perspective of a medical chemist.

Repeated operations on the ChemMaster is error-prone and tedious. For example, to turn an entire 30u blood culture bottle into pills, the 30u must first be separated into 15 batches of 20 2u pills. Then, the custom name, if there is one, must be inputted one time for each batch, resulting in 15 inputs.

Proposed Changes

ChemMaster now saves name and quantity configuration(for each production type), and replaced pill/bottle type modal with buttons integrated into the main UI.

Other small changes,

• Name input box now respects max length and prevents accidentally creating Blood (0.1u) Pill instead of Healing Virus with Toxic Compensation but without Eye Healing(If the name is too long, the machine defaults to using the placeholder name)
• Quantity slider prevents 21 pills(typo of 12) turning into 20 pills silently

Saved Name

The ChemMaster saves the last used name for each production type(pills, patches, bottles), and the saved name will be used in the current and future operations instead of the default placeholder(Epinephrine (20u) patch/pill or Epinephrine bottle). The saved name can be unset by clearing it out(setting its length to 0); in which case, the placeholder name will be used.

Non-Modal Pill/Bottle Types

Lay out the pill/bottle types in a horizontal line instead of opening a modal

Non-Modal Container Customization

Same treatment as pills and bottles, the possible customizations are laid out horizontally instead of opening a modal with a select/combo box

Quantity Slider

Changes the quantity of pills/patches to a slider, and the last quantity is saved across operations. Manual number inputs are still possible by double clicking on the slider.

The slider is unwarranted but looks better than a plain number input.

*: There's existing variables pillamount and patchamount which seems to exist for this purpose, but they're never changed by the modal or by the machine so it stays at 10(its default value). The slider reuses this variable.

Bottle Quantity

Adds a quantity slider to bottle production, so that 90u of Epinephrine can beturned into 3 bottles of 30u Epinephrine, for example. The current method is to add 30u of Epinephrine at a time to the buffer and create bottles that way.

Demonstration

pills.mp4