qt issue hnn_core, also gui issue missing tabs

[ntolley]

Copied from: jonescompneurolab/hnn#344

Hello,
I tried using pip install hnn_core and pip install hnn_core[gui]

No errors when I do python -c 'import hnn_core'
But when I try tutorial 01, I get a qt errror at net.plot_cells()

qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, webgl, xcb.

Aborted

Here is my environment qt info:

(hnn) mschendel@thor:~$ conda list | grep qt
mne-qt-browser 0.6.1 pyha770c72_0 conda-forge
pyqt 5.15.9 py311hf0fb5b6_5 conda-forge
pyqt5 5.15.10 pypi_0 pypi
pyqt5-plugins 5.15.9.2.3 pypi_0 pypi
pyqt5-qt5 5.15.2 pypi_0 pypi
pyqt5-sip 12.13.0 pypi_0 pypi
pyqt5-tools 5.15.9.3.3 pypi_0 pypi
pyqtgraph 0.13.3 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
pyvistaqt 0.11.0 pyhd8ed1ab_1 conda-forge
qt-main 5.15.8 h82b777d_17 conda-forge
qt5-applications 5.15.2.2.3 pypi_0 pypi
qt5-tools 5.15.2.1.3 pypi_0 pypi
qtconsole 5.5.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
qtconsole-base 5.5.1 pyha770c72_0 conda-forge
qtpy 2.4.1 pyhd8ed1ab_0 conda-forge
vtk 9.2.6 qt_py311h1234567_220 conda-forge
vtk-base 9.2.6 qt_py311h1234567_220 conda-forge
vtk-io-ffmpeg 9.2.6 qt_py311h1234567_220 conda-forge

I am using Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

I try to load the hnn-gui, but see attached - I don't see the tabs row for File, Edit (etc) or for Set Parameters (etc). I only see Simulation, Network connectivity. I am not sure if this is an issue with the old version of Firefox my admin is running, or something else.

Thanks for any help,
Megan

[ntolley]

To answer the first question regarding net.plot_cells, I believe this might be an issue specific to your Linux environment. Are you able to generate the other plots?

As for the GUI, it is currently under development but we should be finalizing a beta version in the next 1-2 months.

The 0.3 release of HNN-core has a very very early version of the GUI and is missing a lot of features. You can certainly test out the development version of the new GUI by "Installing an editable version" of HNN-core: https://jonescompneurolab.github.io/hnn-core/dev/contributing.html#installing-editable-hnn-core

This still doesn't have all of the necessary features and is being changed frequently. But please feel free to play around and if you notice any obvious bugs it'd be a great help to report them!