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Controllers for the Start Screen need to be re-connected

1. There is a major issue with how our threading works, there appears to be a race condition which can prevent the user from logging in randomly. This was resolved to an extent by removing a function call to the WebEngine in the FormSender constructor. Looking into alternative threading methods such as Thread Pools could potentially be useful.

2. There is also a major issue with our automated login process, the issue is that we are not able to login to MyNottingham since the Parser is unable to find a form that posts the user data. This could be related to dynamically loaded pages, or it could be related to a completely different thing, at the moment it is unknown what this is caused by.

3. Parsing for website content after a successful login process doesn't work. When we call the parser function that is supposed to return a list of strings ArrayList<String> (strings adhere to JSON format), we get an EMPTY LIST. This could be related to threads, but that remains to be determined.

• Side Note: After the Threading issue was partially suppressed, we noticed a drastic slowdown in the GUI, this should be investigated AFTER the 3 issues discussed above have been resolved.

What needs to be done: (Following this order is strongly encouraged. Done this way for a reason)

• We need to fix the connection. If we can successfully log into Moodle, MyNottingham, BlueCastle. Moodle works in the current state, but we must ensure that this is true for all subsequent iterations of the class. For now we will try to automate the login for MyNottingham.

• We need to resolve the parsing issue, this means that after a successful login, the correct content of the page is returned in the form of Arraylist<String>, which contains the Tag Content (Modules, Grades, etc.).

• Finally we should look into the Thread issue, by this point the fulfilled requirements MUST be Automated Login works (for Moodle, MyNottingham and BlueCastle), The Parser works (We can get the correct tags from ANY website [any refers to the 3 sites above, moodle, blue etc.]). This issue should be approached with RACE CONDITIONS and MUTUAL EXCLUSION as unavoidable concerns.

Note: All of this will be done on the FormSender_Connection_Rework Branch.

The TabPane doesn't rescale properly, this is clearly visible when enlarging the window, the tab pane doesn't grow in conjunction with the main pane. Fixing this issue implies that dynamic resizing should be possible when changing the size of the application window.

This issue is to be corrected on the "GUI_PROTOTYPE" branch.

Similar to the "TabPane Scaling issue", the WebPane doesn't correctly resize if the application window's size is changed. Fixing this issue implies that any change in size to the application window will be reflected in the WebView as well.

This issue is to be corrected on the "GUI_PROTOTYPE" branch.

Not sure why this is, but needs to be addressed