Using the GUI ===================================== A GUI (Graphical User Interface) is under construction that helps to build a data template and explore your dataset. This GUI is made in a separate package: `MetObs-GUI `_ The GUI can **only be launched as a local application**, or on a remote that has a graphical backend. This means that the **GUI can not be used in Google Colab notebooks!** .. warning:: The GUI is currently under development and performance can not yet be guaranteed on all OS platforms. Why a GUI ------------- Building a data/metadata template can sometimes be tricky. The GUI is intended to streamline this process with a visual application. In addition to building a template, some basic functions are implemented as well. How to launch the GUI ------------------------ As explained above, the GUI can best be launched as a local python script or as a local JupyterNotebook. To do that, make sure you have installed the **Metobs-toolkit** and the **Metobs-GUI** on your machine. .. code-block:: console #install the metobs-toolkit pip install metobs-toolkit #install the metobs-gui (currently only on github) pip install git+https://github.com/vergauwenthomas/MetObs_GUI Launch the GUI by running this code in a Python console or in a Jupyter notebook .. code-block:: python import metobs_gui metobs_gui.launch_gui() #the GUI will launch