Toolbar icons not showing in windows

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Toolbar icons not showing in windows

Closed this issue a year ago · 7 comments

Hello,

I just picked up using NME lab - I think it may be a really useful teaching tool for our students getting started with EEG lab.

On my Windows 11 machine, I'm unable to see any of the icons in the toolbar (see image) - is this unique to me?

Many thanks in advance!
J

Answer 1 · 2023-07-14T12:45:02.000Z

This keeps popping up, which version of MNELAB are you using and how did you install it?

Answer 2 · 2023-07-14T13:15:59.000Z

Thanks. I'm using MNELAB 0.8.6 and installed using pip install mnelab.

Answer 3 · 2023-07-14T13:22:44.000Z

I assume you start it with mnelab in Windows terminal? Can you try python -m mnelab just to see if this maybe shows the icons? I'll try to replicate on my Windows machine.

Answer 4 · 2023-07-14T13:31:26.000Z

Actually, I've been starting with python -m mnelab. On its own, mnelab returns an error:

mnelab : The term 'mnelab' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ mnelab
+ ~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (mnelab:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Quite likely something I'm doing wrong - I'm new to MNE and MNElab!
Thanks.

Answer 5 · 2023-07-14T15:40:08.000Z

Toolbar icons are visible on my Windows 11 machine (both mnelab and python -m mnelab work), so I assume the problem has something to do with your Python installation.

Which Python version did you install? How did you install Python? It looks like you used the official installer from python.org and installed it for all users. This is unfortunately a bit broken, because you need to manually add the following folder to your path:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\Scripts

After that, you should be able to start MNELAB with mnelab.

Can you share a screenshot of the About MNELAB dialog? This dialog lists versions for required and optional dependencies.

Answer 6 · 2023-07-14T17:15:44.000Z

Gah - sorry, I was running an old version of python (3.8) and I'm now up-to-date and seeing everything as expected.

I installed the official Python 3.11 using the Windows installer, reinstalled mnelab using pip install mnelab and I manually added:

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python311\Scripts

but mnelab produces the same error. I still need to use python -m mnelab.

Thanks for your support!

Screenshot of about dialogue:

Answer 7 · 2023-07-15T07:40:50.000Z

Updated Python and toolbar icons now visible.