Introducing ImpulseQt (beta)
Wondering where I have been...., I have had my head down spending way too many hours refactoring Impulse.
The last version of Impulse was written in Python Dash-Plotly, it was interesting as it opened and ran in the users default browser, but not everyone liked it as it was slow, unresponsive and did not shut down when closing the browser.
I decided to rewrite it in PySide6, which was completely new to me and a steep learning curve. I removed some of the less popular features such as the spectrum publishing which I thought was a good idea, but very few used it.
This new version is called ImpulseQt with an added a 2 in the logo, this is not an update, but a completely new version. It works in two modes with both GS-PRO and GS-MAX (Atom-Spectra) devices.
The current Windows version was compiled using PySide2 instead or PySide6 because my PC is old, but I will try to publish the next version will be in PySide6 with a slightly more modern GUI.
Even with modern AI tools, software takes a huge amount of time to write and the more you look at the code, the more bugs you find, so please help me by reporting any bugs you find and I promise to stamp them out ASAP.
https://github.com/ssesselmann/ImpulseQt/releases
Why write a new app ?
PRA is great, it's free, but not open source, Becqmoni is free and open source, but both of these apps are exclusively Windows and I mean "Windows", lots of them. I wanted an app which was open source, multi platform and most of all less windows !
Unlike most of you I test a lot of detectors, different ones every day, so I need something fast that has all the settings in the same place and Impulse works great for me, and I hope you like it too..
When you close the app, a pop up asks for feedback, don't be shy....,your wish is my command 😊
Steven
- Device
- Histogram
- Waterfall
- Counts
