napari-ui-tracer 0.1.2

A plugin to help understand Napari UI components and check their source code definition

napari-ui-tracer

A plugin to help understand Napari UI components and locate their code definition

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This napari plugin was generated with Cookiecutter using @napari's cookiecutter-napari-plugin template.

Installation

You can install napari-ui-tracer via pip:

pip install napari-ui-tracer

Or via conda:

conda install -c conda-forge napari-ui-tracer

To install latest development version :

pip install git+https://github.com/dalthviz/napari-ui-tracer.git

Usage

1. Show the plugin inside the napari interface:

   • You can launch napari with the plugin visible running:

       napari -w napari-ui-tracer
     

   • Or select it from Plugins > Napari UI tracer widget

2. Check the Enable Qt event filter checkbox:

   • Use Ctrl/Cmd + Mouse button right click to see the information available about any widget inside napari
   • An option to show objects documentation (object class docstring) can be used by checking the Show object documentation checkbox

3. Check the Enable application events logging checkbox:

   • A log like information with the events generated when interacting with the application will appear
   • Some configuration options are available:
     • Stack depth: Stack depth to show. Default to 20
     • Allowed nested events: How many sub-emit nesting levels to show (i.e. events that get triggered by other events). Default to 0

4. If you want to explore the related widget or event module source file, click the link in the output section of the plugin (the module file will open if you have a registered program to open such kind of file)

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome. Pre-commit is used for formatting. Tests can be run with tox, please ensure the coverage at least stays the same before you submit a pull request.

License

Distributed under the terms of the MIT license, "napari-ui-tracer" is free and open source software

Issues

If you encounter any problems, please file an issue along with a detailed description.