Marty the connector

Marty is a professional software tool originally developed for JK-Regeltechnik to improve the performance of certain tasks

Current Release

Table of Contents

• What is Marty here for
• How does Marty even work
• How to use Marty

What is Marty here for

The goal of Marty is to filter a file for certain data points, process and connect them and finally write the connection string into another file.

How does Marty even work

Marty uses regex and simple python string techniques to achieve glamorous results.

How to use Marty

Prerequesites

You have to have Python 3 installed, min version 3.6 https://www.python.org/downloads/

How to set up python on Windows
https://www.pytorials.com/python-download-install-windows/

How to run python scripts under windows
https://realpython.com/run-python-scripts/#how-to-run-python-scripts-using-the-command-line

General setup and usage

Navigate to the dist folder and download the current version

The file structure should look like following:

• res
• out
• datapoint.py
• main.py
• utils.py

Running the script

• Change directory to martyCon_release_x
• The file you want to analyze has to be placed in res
• Open main.py in your favorite editor and change the dp_csv_filename variable to your actual filename
• start the main.py script via cmd
  python main.py
  or
  python3 main.py

Usage

In the main window you have to load the file via the respective button
The search will not work until the file is loaded

After that you can enter the desired abbreviations to look for the data points to be connected \

Marty will automatically adapt the resulting files name to include the desired data points abbreviations. This is done to get handier file names

Last thing to do is to click the write button. The file will then be placed inside the out folder

Relase notes

20.04.2021 Initial Release

20.5.2021 Fixed some bugs and beautified logging, initated github repo