DroneTimeline is a forensic timeline analysis tool for drone.

• Python 3.8
• PyQt5
• pluggy 1.0.0

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/studiawan/dronetimeline.git

• Setup virtual environment

  python -m venv venv

• Activate the virtual environment

  source venv/bin/activate

• Install the requirements

  pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run setup.py

  python setup.py install

• Run the DroneTimeLine application

  dronetimeline

• The order of the run: select case directory, import timeline, merge the timelines, and show merged timeline.

• To select case directory, choose File → Select Case Directory

• To import timeline, click File → Import Timeline

• We then can merge the imported timelines by clicking Timeline → Merge Timelines

• Finally, we can check the merged timeline by choosing Timeline → Show Merged Timeline

For example, we want to create a plugin to add a new menu to the menu bar. The plugin name is DtGUI-myplugin and the plugin is implementing DtGUI hookspecs.

• Create a new directory DtGUI-myplugin in src/plugins.
• Create a new file for example add_new_menu.py in the DtGUI-myplugin directory. This file will contain the implementation of the DtGUI hookspecs. For example we want to add a new menu into menu bar, we can implement the init_menu hookspecs. The implementation is as follows:

  import DtGUI
  from PyQt5.QtWidgets import (
      QAction,
  )
  
  @DtGUI.hookimpl
  def init_menu(DtGUIObj):
      # application menu
      menubar = DtGUIObj.menuBar()
  
      # File menu
      new_menu = menubar.addMenu('&New Customized Menu')
      
      # File menu action
      newmenu_act = QAction('&Select something', DtGUIObj)
      newmenu_act.setShortcut('Ctrl+P')
      newmenu_act.setStatusTip('Select something')
  
      def newmenu_trigger():
          DtGUIObj.show_info_messagebox('You have selected the new menu')
  
      newmenu_act.triggered.connect(newmenu_trigger)
      new_menu.addAction(newmenu_act)

• Create a new file setup.py in the DtGUI-myplugin directory to package and distribute the plugin. The content of the setup.py is as follows:

  from setuptools import setup
  
  setup(
      name="DtGUI-myplugin",
      version="1.0.0",
      description="DtGUI-myplugin",
      author="Your Name",
      author_email="[email protected]",
      url="",
      entry_points={
          "DtGUI": ["myplugin = add_new_menu"],
      },
      install_requires=[
          "DtGUI",
      ]
  )

• Install the plugin

  pip install --editable src/plugins/DtGUI-myplugin

MIT License.