napari-micromanager

GUI interface between napari and micromanager powered by pymmcore-plus.

🚧 Experimental! Work in progress! Here be 🐲 🚧

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

Installation¶

You can install napari-micromanager via pip:

pip install napari-micromanager

Getting micromanager adapters:¶

The easiest way to get the micromanager adapters is to use:

python -m pymmcore_plus.install

this will install micromanager to the pymmcore_plus folder in your site-package; use this to see where:

python -c "from pymmcore_plus import find_micromanager; print(find_micromanager())"

alternatively, you can direct pymmcore_plus to your own micromanager installation with the MICROMANAGER_PATH environment variable:

export MICROMANAGER_PATH='/path/to/Micro-Manager-...'

Contributing¶

Contributions are very welcome. Tests can be run with tox, please ensure the coverage at least stays the same before you submit a pull request.

Launching napari with plugin¶

You can launch napari and automatically load this plugin using the launch-dev.py script:

python launch-dev.py

Alternatively you can run:

napari -w napari-micromanager

License¶

Distributed under the terms of the BSD-3 license, "napari-micromanager" is free and open source software

Issues¶

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