PlugInChain documentation - Universität Oldenburg

4 Quickstart
This section will give you a short description how to start working with the PlugInChain environment.
Start your MATLAB software. If you have installed all files, you should find the folder
'pluginchain'. Change your working directory in MATLAB to this folder. Type into command
line
pluginchaingui('pluginlist','Examplelist1.cfg','gui','true')
Now the GUI will open with the loaded plugin list 'Examplelist1.cfg '. It should look like Fig.
4.1
Figure 4.1: PlugInChain GUI for loaded plugin list ‘Examplelist1.cfg’.
The plugin list contains 4 plugins, named ‘examplePlugin1 -4’. The first plugin reads the signal
data. The second plots it, the third is a low pass filter and the last plugin again plots the
processed signal.
Start the processing by pressing the button Start in the left of the bottom of the GUI.
The plugin ‘examplePlugin2’ will open a window ‘Fig.2’ (because Fig.1 is the GUI) and display
the signal and ‘examplePlugin4’ will also open a window ‘Fig.3’ and again display the
actual signal data.
You now can open the plugin list ‘examplelist1.cfg’ by clicking the edit button on the right
side of the displayed plugin list name in the top of the GUI. It will open the file in the MAT-
LAB editor. It should look like shown in Fig. 4.2.
If you like you may explore its function by changing some things in the list to see what happens.
In line 9 the variable ‘targetname’ specifies the wave file from which the signal is been
read. If you have any other wave file in the search path (it is recommended to store them in
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