A simple custom GUI for tracking electrophysiology and imaging experiments. GUI was built using Qt Designer and converted to a python file that was modified to add custom button functionality and exporting CSV/TXT files.
- Code has been written to minimize dependencies as much as possible while maintaining compatibility with my personal workflow.
- PyQt5 or PyQt6
- Pandas (for table extraction and exporting)
- Create custom Anaconda environment using the appropriate python version:
conda create env -n pyExperimentTracker python=3.7
conda activate pyExperimentTracker
conda install pyqt5
conda install pandas
conda install -c conda-forge pyinstaller
- UI conversion
cd C:\path\to\directory
# Make a backup copy of the ui file
copy experiment_tracker_win7.ui experiment_tracker_win7_copy.ui
# Convert the ui file to a python file
pyuic5 experiment_tracker_win7.ui -x -o experiment_tracker_win7.py
# IMPORTANT: if the order isn't correct, it will delete the contents of the .ui file
# Modify GUI to add button functionality (make changes to file_name specified in script if necessary)
python3.7 gui_corrector.py
# Convert the resources file to a python file
pyrcc5 resources.qrc -o resources_rc.py
# Compile the application
pyinstaller --icon=images\icon.png --onedir --name "Experiment Tracker" experiment_tracker_win7.py
Standalone applications are not provided in the various subfolders, due to Github size limits.- Portable applications are built using a one directory conversion via pyinstaller via a command line interface
- Windows 7 and instructions are found in the cli_fcns.txt file.
- Version-specific applications can be created via pyinstaller, if necessary.
- experiment_tracker.py requires PyQt6, experiment_tracker_win.py requires PyQt5. .ui files provided and can be modified as necessary.
