Restoring widgets from workflow

[jo-mueller]

@haesleinhuepf @Cryaaa

since we were debatting yesterday about this project (and I think already went a few steps in this direction), do you have any preferences about where such a function should reside? I could see it in napari-workflows:

• We could write a function restore widgets in the newly designed _io_yaml_v1.py
• It would require to make napari-tools-menu (make_gui(), specifically) part of the dependencies to hook the restored widgets to the workflow functionality

Just creating this issue to keep track of the project, feel free to delete it if it has been created elsewhere.

[haesleinhuepf]

Very good! I was thinking again of where to put the code for this and I think the right place would be the assistant repository, because the assistant allows to build workflows.

[haesleinhuepf]

It would require to make napari-tools-menu (make_gui(), specifically) part of the dependencies to hook the restored widgets to the workflow functionality

That actually makes sense. Alternatively, we could move the make_gui code here, and use it from napari-tools-menu.

[Cryaaa]

Since we want to implement the save and load workflow functions into the workflow inspector plugin, should the code maybe reside there? I mean we mostly need the GUI creation when we are working in napari so for me at least it makes sense to keep the code there.

[jo-mueller]

workflow inspector plugin, should the code maybe reside there?

True that. Both napari-workflows and napari-tools-menu are already in the dependencies of the workflow inspector, so this makes sense to me, too.

[haesleinhuepf]

The problem with the inspector is that the code there is GPL-licensed and hence license-incompatible with other repositories. I would prefer to see the I/O functionality in the assistant.

[Cryaaa]

This issue has now been solved in the napari assistant and the code for it was introduced here.