![256.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/zI8uPzlC-256.png)

I'm currently working on HiveDesktop, a pyQt5 based desktop application for the HIVE blockchain. The source code can be found on [github](https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop). HiveDesktop is using [beem](https://github.com/holgern/beem) for accessing the HIVE blockchain.

I worked already several hours on the project and learning how to use pyQT5 properly. I'm using the [fbs](https://github.com/mherrmann/fbs) project for creating the executables and installers. 

The project is still in a very early alpha stage.

## Installing the app
You can find installers for Linux, OSX and Windows in the release page:
https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/releases

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/usvoWMtT-image.png)

## Implemented features
### Account Info

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/4U5thJy3-image.png)

### Account History
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/SVP3ByVK-image.png)

### Account feed
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/5zQRr0ib-image.png)

### Fullscreen video playback
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/UVN3GxqX-image.png)

## Notification when new feed posts are published and for all account history items
![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/holger80/Rg7aN7G3-image.png)

## Roadmap
* Refactoring of the source code
* Signing of the Windows exe and the installer
* Option dialog
* Better design of the GUI
* Integration of Wallet for broadcasting operation (voting, posting)
* Editor to write posts
* Show comments and votes for a post
* Allow Voting and comment writing
* Store account history in a database
* Format the account history entries
* Work on the HTML-rendering (some inline HTML are not correctly rendered)

## Contribution
You are welcome to contribute by writing issues or creating pull requests.
Comments and feature wishes are also welcome.
You can download the [Qt-Designer](https://build-system.fman.io/qt-designer-download) and imrove the GUI without know how to program. You can find the ui file here: https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/blob/master/ui/mainwindow.ui

You can create a new GUI design and attaching it to an issue or create a PR and uploading it.

## Developing
You need python 3.6 (fbs works only with this version) and all packages from [base.txt](https://github.com/holgern/hivedesktop/blob/master/requirements/base.txt).

```
pip install --upgrade -r requirements/base.txt
```
for Windows you need also

```
pip install --upgrade -r requirements/windows.txt
```
You can parse the ui file with
```
pyuic5 ui\mainwindow.ui -o src\main\python\ui_mainwindow.py
```
and start the app by
```
fbs run
```
Before pushing code, please check if the frozen exe also works. First, the exe needs to be created:
```
fbs freeze --debug
```
and it can then be started.



***
*If you like what I do, consider casting a vote for me as witness on [Hivesigner](https://hivesigner.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=holger80&approve=1) or on [PeakD](https://peakd.com/witnesses)*.