ThatMinecraftLauncher/README.md

CustomMinecraftLauncher

The Launcher for my mod pack

General TODO List

• Frontend
  • Port the GUI (and fix the design differences between Desktop environments) or write a new one (→ gui.py)
  • Write a CLI / GUI hybrid program to handle the libraries (→ main.py)
• Library development
  • Write a new game launching Library (→ mchandler.py)
  • Write a new authentication library (→ yggdrasil.py)
  • Write a config handler (→ cfghandler.py)
  • Create server startup request library
  • Modpack update helper (→ updater.py)
• Develop server side tools
  • Server startup request listener
  • Modpack update helper
  • Web files (HTML files to be shown in and cached by the launcher)
    • Server status page
    • News page
    • Credits page

Documentation

Documentation for each individual file can be found in the same directory

Directories

• devtools contains development tools
• lib contains libraries for Minecraft and the launcher
• res contains the resources/assets used by Minecraft
• run contains the running directory / game directory

Files

• main.py the main file of the Launcher

TODO list

• main.py
  • run the updater
  • CLI
  • GUI
    • decide whether to launch the GUI
    • launch GUI (from gui.py)
    • get user input from GUI
  • Act according to the user input