Window Designer - articulateinstruments/AAA-DeepLabCut-Resources GitHub Wiki

What is it?

The Window Designer, also known as the "Designer" or "Task Window editor" is a tool that allows you to edit, create, duplicate, delete and rename task-windows.

What can it do?

When you open the designer AAA changes into design mode, in which you can manipulate the tools and displays that comprise a task window. Each element has a small square symbol in the top-left corner which you can click-and-drag to move it to a new position or pop it out from the window into its own sub-window. You can add new tools and displays from the designer drop-down menu. You can remove an element by double-clicking its top-left square or click-dragging it out into its own window, then closing the window.

Animation showing elements being moved and inserted

Once you have made changes to a task-window, you can right-click it in the list of task-windows to save it or save your changes as a new task-window (which does not overwrite the old one), rename it or delete it. Some elements have additional properties you can edit by right-clicking on them, such as menu bars which can be customised to become play/record buttons if you wish.

Animation showing context menu with various options

How can I find it?

Right-click on the title bar next to the octopus logo, and select Design.

Animation showing how to open the designer

Technical details

Each task window is stored on your computer as a .esu file in the same directory as the AAA executable. These files can be individually copied to back them up or sent by email, etc. AAA scans for the presence of .esu files when it starts up, but does not scan again until the next program startup.