mad_gui.components.dialogs.plugin_selection.LoadDataDialog#
- class mad_gui.components.dialogs.plugin_selection.LoadDataDialog(base_dir: Path, loaders: List[Type[BaseImporter]], parent=None, initial_state: LoadDataDialogState | None = None)[source]#
A dialog, opened upon pressing Load data button in the GUI - interface to use importers.
When the user wants to load data, they use this dialog. In the dialog, the user can use a dropdown menu to select an importer they want to use. This importer must previously have been passed to the GUI via the
mad_gui.start_gui(). The importer can be created as described in 1 Importer.- Parameters:
- base_dir
A base directory, which should be shown when the use wants to select a file - you can configure this by passing a data_dir to
mad_gui.start_gui().- loaders
All the importers that were passed to
mad_gui.start_gui(), which will be shown in the dropdown.- parent
It is used to set the window and button style
- initial_state
Will be assigned to self.state, which keeps the data of this view.
Methods
get_data()Run this dialog and return the data, that was selected by the user.
validate_data_format
Check whether the importer returned data in the expected formats and throw messages on what went wrong, if so.