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This GUI was designed to provide a fast and flexible interface for acquiring and visualizing data from extracellular electrodes.
This version of the GUI is based around a *true plugin architecture*, meaning the data processing modules are compiled separately from the main application. This should simplify the process of adding new functionality, since new modules can be created without needing to re-compile the entire application.
Everything is written in C++, with the help of the Juce_ library. Juce is lightweight, easy to learn, and completely cross-platform. What's more, it includes a variety of classes for audio processing, which have been co-opted to process neural data. It might be necessary to create custom data processing classes in the future, but for now, Juce takes care of a lot of the messy bits involved in analyzing many parallel data streams.
This repository contains all of the files you'll need to compile and run the GUI on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. The makefile (for Linux), XCode project (for Mac), and Visual Studio 2012 project (Windows) are located in the Builds/ directory.
Installation instructions specific for the plugin GUI can be found here: https://open-ephys.atlassian.net/wiki/display/OEW/Plugin+architecture
We recommend reading through the wiki_ before attempting to make any changes.
