lantz-drivers 0.5.2

Instrumentation framework

lantz-drivers

Lantz is an automation and instrumentation toolkit with a clean, well-designed and consistent interface. It provides a core of commonly used functionalities for building applications that communicate with scientific instruments allowing rapid application prototyping, development and testing.

This contains the lantz.drivers subpackage.

For a longer description and docs, please visit the root of the project:

https://github.com/lantzproject/lantz

The Lantz Authors

Authors

Hernan E. Grecco <[e-mail]>

Martin Masip <[e-mail]> Pablo Jais <[e-mail]> Martin Caldarola <[e-mail]> Federico Barabas <[e-mail]>

Lantz-drivers Changelog

0.5.2 (2019-01-21)

• Imported drivers from vascotenner drivers_developv branch.

0.5 (2018-12-31)

• Extracted Drivers from Lantz 0.4.dev0. All specific drivers are kept here.

• Migrated to mfeats when possible.

0.3 (2015-02-05)

• Introduced MessageBasedDriver, a class to rule them all.

• Moved drivers

• Moved old base classes (serial, usb, tcp, visa) to legacy package.

• Moved instrument drivers based on legacy classes to legacy package.

• Migrated instrument classes to MessageBasedDriver.

• Improved logging to avoid duplication and useless info.

• Frontend and Backend for application development.

• Implemented Chart block.

• Implemented Scan block.

• Implemented FeatScan block.

• Implemented Loop block.

• Implemented Layout block.

• Online documentation now shows the drivers classes.

• Stub classes to enable documentation building without required packages.

• Moved simulator from script to console-script.

• Changed sphinx theme to read the docs.

• Introduced start_gui helper function to start an app with a ui file and an instrument or instruments.

• Introduced start_test_app helper function to start the test panel.

• Introduced start_gui_app takes a backend and fronted and shows the app.

• Moved get-lantz script to a gist.

• Removed lantz-shell, equivalent functionality was contributed to PyVISA.

• Support simultaneous values and units in Feat. (Issue #25)

• Use Qt import scheme from IPython.

• Helper functions for multiple initialization: initialize_many and finalize_many.

• GUI support for initialize_many and finalize_many.

• New instrument drivers.

0.2 (2013-01-01)

• first public release.