TTL Panels

This is an Open Ephys GUI plugin that offers a set of widgets to make TTL event debugging easier:

• A toggle panel manually generates TTL events.

• A display panel that shows the current state of TTL inputs.

Installation

These plugins can be added via the Open Ephys GUI's built-in Plugin Installer. Press ctrl-P or ⌘P to open the Plugin Installer, browse to "TTL Panels", and click the "Install" button. The TTL Panels plugin should now be available to use.

Usage

Instructions for using the TTL Panels plugin are available here.

Building from source

First, follow the instructions on this page to build the Open Ephys GUI.

Then, clone this repository into a directory at the same level as the plugin-GUI, e.g.:

Code
├── plugin-GUI
│   ├── Build
│   ├── Source
│   └── ...
├── OEPlugins
│   └── ttl-panels
│       ├── Build
│       ├── Source
│       └── ...

Windows

Requirements: Visual Studio and CMake

From the Build directory, enter:

cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -A x64 ..

Next, launch Visual Studio and open the OE_PLUGIN_ttl-panels.sln file that was just created. Select the appropriate configuration (Debug/Release) and build the solution.

Selecting the INSTALL project and manually building it will copy the .dll and any other required files into the GUI's plugins directory. The next time you launch the GUI from Visual Studio, the TTL Toggle Panel and TTL Display Panel plugins should be available.

Linux

Requirements: CMake

From the Build directory, enter:

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
cd Debug
make -j
make install

This will build the plugin and copy the .so file into the GUI's plugins directory. The next time you launch the GUI compiled version of the GUI, the TTL Toggle Panel and TTL Display Panel plugins should be available.

macOS

Requirements: Xcode and CMake

From the Build directory, enter:

cmake -G "Xcode" ..

Next, launch Xcode and open the ttl-panels.xcodeproj file that now lives in the “Build” directory.

Running the ALL_BUILD scheme will compile the plugin; running the INSTALL scheme will install the .bundle file to /Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/open-ephys/plugins-api8. The TTL Toggle Panel and TTL Display Panel plugins should be available the next time you launch the GUI from Xcode.

Attribution

This plugin was originally developed by Christopher Thomas in the Womelsdorf Laboratory at Vanderbilt University. The original repository can be found at https://github.com/att-circ-contrl/PluginTTLDebug