sg-s/puppeteer

MATLAB class to control and manipulate models, simulations, functions...anything

puppeteer

A MATLAB class that can control anything.

The Problem:

• You have a simulation or a function with some parameters. It's complicated
• You want to get a feel for it by twiddling the parameters and seeing how it changes
• It's a pain to write bespoke wrappers for your code and worry about UI generation

The solution

puppeteer does all the hard work of generating UI elements for you. Here's how it works.

Generate a new puppeteer instance and tell it the parameters you want to manipulate:

p = puppeteer();

p.add('Name',Name,'Value',Value,'Group',categorical({'Wow'}),'Upper',1e-3,'Units','M');
% and so on...

Then wire up a callback function that gets called every time the sliders move:

p.valueChangingFcn = @self.manipulateEvaluate; 

Finally, ask it to draw the UI

p.makeUI;

That's it. Enjoy.

License

GPL 3. puppeteer is free software.

puppeteer in use

1. black-box-neuron
2. xolotl

puppeteer's Issues

multiple windows stacked

should be staggered

need to be able to scroll with the mouse wheel

image thread

expand readme to talk about figures and how they are handled

puppeteer should define an abstract class called Manipulatable

so we can automatically manipulate objects

puppeteer should support units

in the control label

The manipulate bar window is opened at a weird position

What you were trying to do (include code to reproduce error)

x.manipulate

What you expected to happen

The top of the manipulate window should be visible

What actually happened

This is a minor issue, but I always have to drag the window down after running x.manipulate

it's currently possible to scroll past the end. which is not good

puppeteer should not allow parameter names to end with a _

as that subscripts "="

pupeteer window should be as small as possible

switch to uisliders

and don;'t use uicontrols anymore

puppeteer doesn't play nice with negative parameters.

Parameters missing in new puppeteer

It looks like a row of sliders is getting cut off in the new puppeteer.

The first parameter listed at the top in Group 2 should be AB.GenericKdLike.m_tau_A , but it starts on ..._tauB. This trend continues across each tab.

puppeteer should ignore underscores by default

replace them with spaces perhaps?

Allow for some "magic" strings that will be replaced when displayed

for example, if a struct name has this pattern in it:

_2_

it should be replaced with ->