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ImSwitchInstallWindows

ImSwitch Installation on Windows​

Step 1: Install Visual Studio Code (VS Code)​

  1. Open a web browser and go to the VS Code download page.
  2. Download the Windows Installer.
  3. Once the download is complete, locate the installer and double-click to run it.
  4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Step 2: Install Miniconda​

  1. Open a web browser and navigate to the Miniconda download page.
  2. Download the Windows installer for the 64-bit version of Miniconda.
  3. Run the installer by double-clicking the downloaded file.
  4. Follow the installer prompts to install Miniconda to a directory of your choice (e.g., C:\Miniconda3).
  5. During installation, ensure that the option to "Add Anaconda to my PATH environment variable" is selected.

Step 3: Clone Necessary Repositories​

  1. Ensure you have installed GIT for windows
  2. Open the Command Prompt:
    • Press Win + R, type cmd, and press Enter.
  3. Navigate to your preferred directory where you want to clone the repositories (e.g., C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Downloads):
    cd C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Downloads
  4. Clone the required repositories:
    git clone https://github.com/openUC2/UC2-REST
    git clone https://github.com/openUC2/ImSwitch
    git clone https://gitlab.com/bionanoimaging/nanoimagingpack
  1. Open the Command Prompt.
  2. Create a new Conda environment named imswitch with Python 3.10:
    conda create -n imswitch python=3.10
  3. Activate the imswitch environment:
    conda activate imswitch
  4. Navigate to the ImSwitch directory and install it: (The e just states to install the packages in editable mode)
    cd C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Downloads\ImSwitch
    pip install -e .
  5. Repeat for UC2-REST and nanoimagingpack:
    cd C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Downloads\UC2-REST
    pip install -e .
    cd C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Downloads\nanoimagingpack
    pip install -e .

Step 5: Install Camera Drivers for Daheng Cameras​

  1. Download the galaxy camera sdk for windows here https://www.get-cameras.com/requestdownload
  2. Double-click on the installation executable file (Galaxy_camera.exe) to run it.
  3. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation.

Step 6: Clone ImSwitch Configuration and Set Permissions​

  1. Navigate to the Documents directory using the Command Prompt:
    cd C:\Users\<YourUsername>\Documents
  2. Clone the ImSwitch configuration:
    git clone https://github.com/openUC2/ImSwitchConfig

Step 7: Start​

conda activate imswitch
imswitch

Problems and Solutions​

Very likely, there will be a PyQt issue.

Try:

pip install PyQt5 --force-reinstall

Congratulations! You have successfully installed ImSwitch and related dependencies on Windows.