PING Wizard
Light-weight interface for running PING Ecosystem utilities.
Overview
As of v4.0, PINGWizard is the recommended interface for running
PINGMapper
and other utilities in the PING Ecosystem.
PINGWizard
is a light-weight interface for launching PINGMapper
utilities, including running the tests, processing a sonar log, batch process multiple sonar logs, and updating the installation.
There are two options for launching PINGWizard: a) with a shortcut or b) command prompt.
Option A - Shortcut
During installation, you were prompted to select a location to save a batch (Windows) or bash (Linux/Mac OS) shortcut file. This file contains the commands to activate the ping
conda environment and run PINGWizard.
On Windows, simply double click the PINGWizard.bat file:
On Linux/Mac OS, open a command prompt, change directory to where you saved the shortcut, and launch the bash script by entering the following and press Enter
:
./PINGWizard.sh
Option B - Conda Command Prompt
Open the Conda Command Prompt used during installation. Activate the ping
environment and launching PINGWizard by entering the following and pressing Enter
:
conda run -n ping python -m pingwizard
PINGWizard will launch and present a menu of buttons to run various PINGMapper utilities:
Press one of the buttons to:
- Run PINGMapper on a single sonar log.
- Run PINGMapper on a batch of sonar log..
- Test PINGMapper on a small dataset Recommended if you just installed/updated PINGMapper.
- Test PINGMapper on a large dataset Recommended if you just installed/updated PINGMapper.
- Update PINGMapper Recommended to run routinely.