A lightweight Windows app to launch your behavioral task (Bonsai, matlab, etc...). Works with Windows 10, and ade by Visual Studio and WinForms.

1. Copy TaskLauncher.exe (and optionally config.json) to any folder from here (ceph/mrsic_flogel/public/projects/SuKu_20231005_AllOpticalManipulation/2p-313/TaskLauncher).
2. Double-click TaskLauncher.exe.
   • If config.json is missing, a starter config is generated.
   • Edit config.json → save → relaunch. (see below for details)

The app reads everything from config.json placed next to the EXE.

{"header":{"show": true, "left": "My BIG Left Title", "right": "small right text", "y": 30, "marginX": 20, "leftFontSize": 36, "rightFontSize": 9 }, "buttons": [{"text": "App 1 (no args)", "exePath": "C:\\Path\\To\\App1\\app1.exe", "y": -1, "width": 220, "height": 40 },{"text": "App 2 (with args)", "exePath": "C:\\Path\\To\\App2\\app2.exe", "args": "--flag1 value", "y": -1, "width": 220, "height": 40 },{"text": "App 3 (args list)", "exePath": "C:\\Path\\To\\App3\\app3.exe", "argsList": ["--port", "8080", "--mode", "safe value with spaces"], "runAsAdmin": true, "y": -1, "width": 220, "height": 40 } ] }

Use Visual Studio for debugging. Once the debug is done, you can publish the standalone .exe file with

dotnet publish ".\TaskLauncher.csproj" -c Release -r win-x64 --self-contained true /p:PublishSingleFile=true /p:PublishTrimmed=false /p:PublishReadyToRun=false /p:DebugType=none /p:DebugSymbols=false /p:GenerateDocumentationFile=false /p:IncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=true