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Simulation and optimization of neural circuits for MEG/EEG source estimates
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GUI loading of base network connectivity from API #729

Open gtdang opened 6 months ago

gtdang commented 6 months ago

This enhancement was discussed in #723.

The idea is to move away from setting connectivity and drive parameters from input files. Alternatively connectivity would be loaded from pre-defined options that load connectivity using the hen-core API. And drive parameters will be set by the user.

hnn-gui-hdf5-network-flow Figure 1 Current implementation

hnn-gui-network-base-network-selector-flow Figure 2 New implementation

The changes are summarized below:

  1. On the Network Connectivity tab window:
    • A dropdown-selector for a set of pre-defined base connectivity configurations
    • A confirm button to load the selected base connectivity
    • These replace the current "Load local network connectivity" button. As users won't be loading only connectivity from file.
      1. On the External Drives tab window:
    • The current "Load external drives" can be removed as users won't be loading only drives from file.
      1. New "Load saved network" button
    • This button will load both connection and drives from an hdf5 file. There is no option to load just connections or drives--it will be all-in-one.
    • This gives the user the ability to save configuration state of a tutorial and return back to it. It also allows us to supply a configuration state mid-tutorial if needed.
      • Note that this does not save the state of the simulations or plots generated