video_dict issues when calling functions out of jupyter code

[Leandroscholz]

Hi everyone from @DeniseCaiLab,

Your tool is really interesting and quite useful, congratulations!

I have started using it to automate some of the tracking tasks we have in our lab and I noticed there are a few issues when calling ezTrack functions on scripts out of the notebooks you provide. I don't have a detailed description of the issues as of now, because I just debugged it quickly to have some results. However, if you want to start working on it before I give more details, below are some information:

1) please take a look operations with video_dict['dpath'] and video_dict['file'] as I had some issues while communitacing between functions. For example, trackLocation should use os.path.join(os.path.normpath(video_dict['dpath']), video_dict['file']) instead of video_dict['dpath']) to load the image. Also, please let me know if you really have the same issues or I am the only facing these issues.

2) batch_LoadFiles does not work in the notebook. it gives an empty list when using the LocationTracking_BatchProcess.ipynb, key name 'ftype' value should be with a dot e.g,'.avi'

I hope you find these comments useful. Cheers,

[ZachPenn]

Hi,

All of the visualization features of ezTrack are currently entirely dependent upon being run within Jupyter and will present problems if trying to be implemented outside of Jupyter. Non-visualization components of the code should be fine.

I'll check out the other things you note but without further details it's a bit tricky.

trackLocation uses video_dict['fpath'], not 'dpath', which is defined the way you suggest, but earlier when the video is loaded: video_dict['fpath'] = os.path.join(os.path.normpath(video_dict['dpath']), video_dict['file']), under function LoadAndCrop.

I'll look into the issue with file extension but for batch_LoadFiles but there should not be a "." included in the extension.