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navigate.controller.sub_controllers.plugins.PluginsController

class navigate.controller.sub_controllers.plugins.PluginsController(view, parent_controller)

Bases: object

Plugins manager in the controller side

__init__(view, parent_controller)

Initialize plugins manager class.

Parameters:
  • view (object) – tkinter frame object.

  • parent_controller (object) – navigate controller.

Methods

__init__(view, parent_controller)

Initialize plugins manager class.

build_popup_window(plugin_name, frame, ...)

Build popup window for a plugin

build_tab_window(plugin_name, frame, controller)

Build tab for a plugin

load_plugins()

Load plugins

load_plugins_through_manager(plugin_manager)

Load plugins through plugin manager

populate_experiment_setting()

populate experiment values to plugin GUI

register_acquisition_mode(...)

Register acquisition mode

Attributes

view

tkinter frame object.

parent_controller

navigate controller.

plugins_dict

installed plugins with GUI

build_popup_window(plugin_name, frame, controller)

Build popup window for a plugin

Parameters:
  • plugin_name (str) – plugin name.

  • frame (object) – navigate frame object

  • controller (object) – navigate controller

build_tab_window(plugin_name, frame, controller)

Build tab for a plugin

Parameters:
  • plugin_name (str) – plugin name.

  • frame (object) – navigate frame object

  • controller (object) – Controller Class

load_plugins()

Load plugins

load_plugins_through_manager(plugin_manager)

Load plugins through plugin manager

Parameters:

plugin_manager (object) – PluginManager object

populate_experiment_setting()

populate experiment values to plugin GUI

register_acquisition_mode(acquisition_mode_name, module)

Register acquisition mode

Parameters:
  • acquisition_mode_name (str) – The name of an acquisition mode

  • module (module) – acquisition mode module

parent_controller

navigate controller.

Type:

object

plugins_dict

installed plugins with GUI

Type:

dict

view

tkinter frame object.

Type:

object


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