AnyWave:Faq

Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about AnyWave. If you don't have an answer to your question reading the Documentation, you may find useful information here.

Plug-ins

The application is provided with plug-ins which allow for example to read and write several data file formats, apply Time/Frequency representation to a signal, etc.

How to install a plug-in

The user may add custom plug-ins to AnyWave. Depending on the plug-in type (MATLAB, Python or Native) the location where to put the plug-in may vary.
We strongly recommend NOT to add plug-ins in the Application directory, as it may require administrative privileges and it also make the plug-ins available to all the users on the computer.
We suggest to install plug-in in the user home directory where AnyWave created special folders to place custom files.
On the Windows platform, the base directory for plug-ins should be: "My Documents\AnyWave\Plugins".
On the Mac OS X and Linux platforms, the base directory for plug-ins should be: "AnyWave/Plugins" in the user's home directory.
There are several types of plug-ins:

• An AnyWave native plug-in is a file (a C++ library) that must be copied directly in the root plugins directory.
• A MATLAB plug-in is a directory containing several files and must be copied in the MATLAB sub-directory.
• A Python plug-in is also a directory containing several files and must be copied in the Python sub-directory.

MATLAB Requirements

MATLAB plug-ins can be distributed as MATLAB .m files and thus require that MATLAB is available on the computer.
AnyWave will call the MATLAB execution engine to run those files.

MATLAB plug-ins can also be compiled and distributed as a standalone application.
This will required the MATLAB Runtime to be installed on the computer. The Runtime is freely available from the Mathworks web site.

File formats

AnyWave can read and/or write to different file formats depending on the available plug-ins.

For EEG data the following formats are supported for reading:

• Micromed (.trc)
• Electrode Array (.eab)
• EDF+/BDF+ (.eeg)
• Brainvision Analyser (.vhdr)
• ANT EEProbe (.cnt)
• Neuroscan old format (.cnt)
• ADES (.ades) AnyWave simple format.

For MEG data the following formats are supported for reading:

• 4DNI
• CTF
• ADES (.ades) AnyWave simple format.

It is also possible to export to the following formats:

• Brainvision Analyser (.vhdr)
• ADES (.ades) AnyWave simple format.

ADES format

This is a simple file format used mostly to exchange data between different software. This is NOT the official AnyWave format but just a media used for exchanging between software.

Here is a complete documentation of the ADES file format