Starting the Archive Generator

I started making an application for generating archives that will be able to be used with the main app. This solves two problems:

I will want to show the app working further into development without showing my personal chats
It will allow people who don’t use Google Chat to test the app

Design

I am using the textual library for Python to create this helper app. I am using Python not Dart as I am faster with it, and the main focus of this project should be a Dart app. I am using textual not just a simple console app because I saw textual and thought it looked like a really cool library

Progress

In this session I made the first two menus- the main menu and the create player menu. I was doing some experimenting with how I wanted to design the app, and eventually settled on separate Screens for each menu. When implementing the Screens, however, I didn’t fully understand the api, and couldn’t figure out why my buttons were not rendering. It turned out, I just had to install and switch to the screen, not just push to it or switch to it.