Future Development

Plans for the future include (but are not limited to):

• Adding more instrument drivers

• Expanding the instrument drivers we have to implement more parameters/commands

• Modifying the auto-update functionality of the main app to be more flexible, e.g. custom timeout for each instrument

• Looking into using binary ZMQ messages and sending for example numpy arrays over ZMQ instead of strings (e.g., using msgpack)

• Create a custom widget that shows all logging messages and lets you filter them on the fly (by loglevel and instrument driver, etc.)

• Code improvement:

  • adding more type hints

  • adding more tests (e.g. figuring out how to test Qt apps)

  • improving the code base (running linters such as pylint, ruff)

  • replace some logging instances with raising an exception where appropiate (currently we only use logger.error)

  • in the instrument drivers switch from commands (no argument) and parameters (one argument) to something that can handle multiple arguments