adding a time stamp is useful to look at logged positions

This button would load the values of the current position, as indicated in the application, to the entry values for the "go to position" button. This would allow the user an easy way to save a position and return to that position quickly

The ARS microscope setup requires that each x, y and z channel have a different micron/volt scale.

Additionally, there is a position offset of 5 microns for each channel.

Modify the code so that it accepts different scales and offsets for each channel (x, y, z).

The x, y, z entry boxes for the 'go to position' are a little too close to the right edge of the window. Should move them to the left. See TKinter documentation on how to position them (sticky = 'e'? )

go to x = 85, raises exception and gui stops responding.

fix so that gui doesn't break

The underlying library supports setting read channels to None, but the GUI application fails to handle this scenario.
As a user, I want to be able to control the actuator even if I don't have analog read channels from the actuator controller connected to NIDAQ analog inputs.

Should be an easy fix.

The scale and offset parameters off the stage controller need to be changed on the fly by the qt3scan application. Of course, a user of an instance of the PiezoControl class can directly modify the underlying variables. But the proper way to do this to guarantee functionality is to make these accessible as a property and then do checks in the setter function.

It's pretty clear that this software could be repurposed for any device that moves an object in 3 dimensions using analog input and output channels on NIDAQ. (In fact, it doesn't even need to be spatial dimensions!).

It would not be too much work to clone this repository, rename it to something more general, then layer on specifics.
In fact, the only thing that is really needed to is properly scale the analog voltage to the dimension of interest. (In the case of the Jena controller, this scaling is 8 microns per volt)

The very small downside of renaming is that there'd be a few side effects

• would need to migrate qt3utils to new package name in future versions. This would be somewhat trivial, and would likely dovetail with a need to define a 3d stage controller interface in qt3utils.
• would need to push new package to pypi - also trivial.

currently 200 ms sleep is performed after each move to ensure device is stable. However, this might be too long. Or provide option to user to change. Could speed up confocal scans