Description

GUI overview

The content is organised in three tabs, see the respective pages for details:

• Get Data

• Plot Data

• Explore Data

All the tabs have two common features, a Help button and a Log window.

• The Help button displays documentation specific to each tab in a separate window.

• The Log window displays the output of ongoing operations (e.g. the status of downloads) or tips (e.g. for plotting). The most recent messages will appear in the upper part of the window.

The app will also display warning messages to guide users when they enter invalid input or specify conflicting options.

Technical details

• GW Data Plotter is written in Python.

• Its main functionalities are based on packages gwosc and GWpy developed by the GW community.

• The graphical interface was created with Qt, a cross-platform GUI toolkit, using the Python binding PyQt.

• The standalone executable files are created with PyInstaller.