feature request: hide unselected channels in Shank Activity window

[neurochen]

Thanks for your excellent work on SpikeGLX. In our use case, we sometimes select evenly spaced channels along the probe. It would benefit us to have a global view of activity levels across selected contacts along the probe. The current Shank Activity window can't support this well; Although a small pixels/pad value would offer a global view, it makes each contact super small so that the visualization is barely visible. Could you offer a feature to hide all the unselected channels and stack all the selected channels together, similar to the view for the default IMRO where only the top 384 channels are visualized? Appreciated.

[billkarsh]

Are you using at most two probes? What if you open the second Graphs window (ctrl+T) to get two more trace viewers and their ShankViewers. Then you could have two ShankViewers per probe to see the upper and lower portions at the same time. Would that work for you?

[neurochen]

Thanks for the quick reply, Bill. We are using 3 probes at the same time. The approach you mentioned is interesting, but it will not work in our case.

[billkarsh]

Compressing the sites to wrong addresses on the probe will not work with anatomy overlays. I am intrigued about visualizing more of the probe at the same time but have to think how to do it. And I have an existing agenda of work to satisfy grants, so I can not promise to solve this immediately.

[neurochen]

Appreciated! No rush. please remind me here when you add that feature:-)