Initial window shown to users upon starting the GUI.

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... simplest use case for the GUI is the conversion of a single file. Upon starting the GUI, the user is greeted by the window in Figure 1. Starting in the top left, the initially empty choose a target field displays the filename of the data file the user wants to convert. ...

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... a data file has been chosen, and metadata associated with it, users will need to press the Convert button. If the conversion is successful (no errors are thrown during the process), then the status bar near the bottom of the window (grey, with the label Unconverted in Fig. 1) will change to green, as shown in Fig. ...

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... to the right of the Select a file button is the Select a directory button, as seen in Fig. 1. This button allows a user to select an entire directory as a candidate for conversion, as opposed to a single file. When the user attempts to convert the directory, a subroutine will gather a list of all the files in the provided directory that can be converted, based on the filename extensions. Everything else is excluded from the ...

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... last two buttons of interest are Remove target in the top right, and Add a conversion target on the bottom of Fig. 1. These allow the addition of additional individual conversion "tasks" for the GUI to perform. Adding targets allows the user to add files or batches of files, each of which is handled individually with its own associated metadata, status bar, and button for conversion. See Fig. 5 for an example. Using the Remove target button, users ...