Main Window

Main Window#

TAPAS employs a tab-based interface in which each tab is dedicated to a distinct step of the analytical workflow. Global project operations—such as saving/loading projects, adjusting GUI preferences, or selecting plotting templates—are accessible from the menu bar and toolbar above the tab pane. In the backend these correspond to the main_view and main_controller modules.

  • Menu Bar / Toolbar Entries

    • Project → New Project / Open Project / Save Project / Save Project as

      Save the current software- and data state to HDF including widget states, raw data, processed data, fitted data etc. Automatically adds metadata

    • Configurations → Open Config / Save Config / Save Config as

      Config files hold the states of the widgets, eg. defalut values for buttons. Upon software start, the defalut configurations are loaded under \_internal\tapas\configurations\default_gui_config.json. When a project is saved, the current widget states are also saved to the HDF file.

    • Plotting Configurations

      select a preset matplotlibrc template, select the default matplotlibrc file which can be changed under \_internal\tapas\configurations\default_style.mplstyle or create and load your own configuration file. Guidence can be found in the Matplotlib documentation

    • Help → online Documentation

      Link to the Read the Docs documentation.

    • Help → online Source Code

      Link to the GitHub repository.

    • Help → local Source Code

      Link to the \_internal\tapas folder. The modules should be changed here.

    • Help → Third-Party Acknowledgements / Third-Party Licenses / License / About

      Information about the Licenses, Versions and Third-Party Packages, Graphics and Fonts. Points to the textfiles under \_internal\tapas. Please do not change these when distributing the software.

  • Status Bar & Error handling

    Status updates are displayed in green, expected error messages are displayed in red. These can be adjusted under \_internal\tapas\configurations\messages.py. Unexpected or unhandled errors will be catched globally and the error message will be displayed in a pop-up window. In this case something went wrong and the current software state might be unstable. In this case, pleasse report the bug by opening a new issue at github.