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Sound notifications

Starting in version 0.8.5, Picasso supports sound notifications. In Render and SPINNA, these can be selected in the File menu in the menu bar. The available files are read from the picasso/gui/notification_sounds folder. .mp3 and .wav files are supported. Default sound notification is saved automatically when manually changed.

Custom notifications

To add custom notification sounds, copy the sound files (.mp3 or .wav) to the picasso/gui/notification_sounds folder. Depending on how you installed Picasso, this folder can be found in different locations:

GitHub

If you cloned the GitHub repository, you can add sound notifications by following these steps:

  • Find the directory where you cloned the GitHub repository with Picasso.

  • Go to picasso/gui/notification_sounds.

  • Copy the sound files to this folder.

PyPI

If you installed Picasso using pip install picassosr, you can add sound notifications by following these steps:

  • Activate your conda environment where picassosr is installed by typing conda activate YOUR_ENVIRONMENT.

  • To find the location of the package, type pip show picassosr and look for the line starting with Location:.

  • Navigate to this location and go to picasso/gui/notification_sounds.

  • Copy the sound files to this folder.

One click installer (Windows)

If you installed Picasso using the one click installer from the Picasso release page , you can add sound notifications by following these steps:

  • Find the location where you installed Picasso. By default, it is C:/Picasso. Before version 0.8.3, the default location was C:/Program Files/Picasso.

  • Go to the following subfolder: picasso/gui/notification_sounds.

  • Copy the sound files to this folder.

One click installer (macOS)

If you installed Picasso using the one click installer from the Picasso release page , you can add sound notifications by following these steps:

  • Navigate to your Applications folder and right-click on the picasso app, then select “Show Package Contents”.

  • Add your sound files to Contents/Frameworks/picasso/gui/notification_sounds.

Error log

Every uncaught error is appended to ~/.picasso/logs/picasso.log (i.e. C:\Users\<you>\.picasso\logs\picasso.log on Windows), together with the tracebacks of failing background threads. The file rotates to picasso.log.1 once it exceeds 5 MB.

This matters most for the one-click installers: their GUIs are started from a windowed executable with no console attached, so anything the program prints has nowhere to go. Picasso therefore redirects its output to that log file. When an error occurs, Picasso shows it in a message box (click Show Details… for the full traceback) and writes the same traceback to the log.

When reporting a problem on GitHub, please attach the log file - it contains the traceback of the failure.