Gui For The Application

Before break we discussed building a GUI for the existing applications that the team has, to make it easier for other people without as much technical knowledge to use as well as allow people to run the code without needing access to the MatLab backend.

To the first end I’ve been researching GUI modules for python. The built in Tkinter module looked like it might useful and I spend much of the week learning how about the objects it has and how to nest them properly such that what appears on the window is usable. I found the this tutorial particularly helpful. I have had some prior experience with event based programing, but not with the style of graphical monitors that Tkinter uses. One of the first steps I’ve taken there is to figure out how to embed a file selection dialog, and retrieve the data from the various widgets.

In addition, I’ve started to look into how to port Matlab code, which is much of our backend, into python. So far I have not had much success with that, so hopefully I will understand that better next week.