Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Autolab is provided with a user-friendly graphical interface based on the Device interface, that allows the user to interact even more easily with its instruments. It can only be used for local configurations (see Local configuration).

The GUI has four panels:

• a Control Panel that allows to see visually the architecture of a Device, and to interact with an instrument through the Variables and Actions.

• The Monitoring Panel allows the user to monitor a Variable over time.

• The Scanning Panel allows the user to configure the scan of a parameter and execute a custom recipe for each value of the parameter.

• The Plotting Panel allows the user to plot data.

Control panel

Monitoring panel

Scanning panel

Plotting panel

To start the GUI from a Python shell, call the gui function of the package:

>>> import autolab
>>> autolab.gui()

To start the GUI from an OS shell, use:

>>> autolab gui

• Control panel
• Monitoring
• Scanning
• Plotting
• Miscellaneous
• Experimental features