jpgill86/neurotic: 1.4.0

1.4.0 (2020-03-04) New features

• Add computation of smoothed firing rates for spike trains (#189)
• Add quick_launch function for easier scripting and interactive sessions (#191, #196)
• Add blk param to load_dataset for using existing Neo Block (#196)
• Add rec_datetime metadata parameter for setting real-world start time (#190)
• Add past_fraction metadata parameter for controlling the placement of the vertical line marking the current time (#220)
• Add color options for signal plots to metadata (#177)
• Add options for scaling the user interface (#222, #241, #242)
• Add launch via double click in standalone app (#218)

Help & feedback

• Display loading indicator when launching in the standalone app (#223)
• Prompt the user to reload metadata after using the menu to edit metadata (#226)
• Show "Downloads complete" in app status bar and in log (#219)
• Add menu action status tips to standalone app (#221, #240)
• Add "Check for updates" to help menu (#201)
• Add Help menu actions for opening common URLs (#198, #230)
• Add Python version and neurotic install path to About window (#181)
• Display common error messages to status bar in standalone app (#225)
• Display a splash screen when first starting the standalone app (#224)

Jupyter tutorial

Start the tutorial using neurotic --launch-example-notebook or view it here.

• Add API tutorial to example Jupyter notebook (#234, #236)
• Add shell commands to example Jupyter notebook for installing neurotic (#185)

Other changes

• Move RAUC calculations to load_dataset and store them as annotations (#188)
• Disable RAUC calculations by default (#193)
• Allow data_file to be unspecified in metadata and signals to be optional (#195)
• Ignore video_file if PyAV is not installed (#231)
• Rename elephant functions (#183)

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when plots list is empty (#217)
• Fix plotted signal sampling rate and start time if units are not Hz and sec, respectively (#194)
• Fix incompatibility with old versions of tqdm and unknown download size (#184)

Documentation

• Improve installation and updating documentation (#180, #229)

Logging

• Add package logger and permanent log file (#174)
• Log fatal errors in standalone app instead of crashing (#176)
• Add CLI and GUI options for enabling debug log messages (#178)
• Raise the default threshold for PyAV messages from warning to critical (#179)