preliminary work for queued experiments

src/gui/DamarisGUI.py

@@ -156,6 +156,8 @@ class DamarisGUI:
         self.monitor = MonitorWidgets( self.xml_gui )
 
         self.config = ConfigTab( self.xml_gui )
+        # lock file to prevent other DAMARIS to start immediatly
+        self.lockfile = os.path.expanduser("~/.damaris.lock")
 
         exp_script = u""
         if exp_script_filename is not None and exp_script_filename != "":
@@ -349,7 +351,7 @@ class DamarisGUI:
             self.sw.enable_editing( )
             return
 
-        # check whether scripts are syntacticaly valid
+        # check whether scripts are syntactically valid
         # should be merged with check script function
         exp_code = None
         if exp_script != "":
@@ -408,7 +410,13 @@ class DamarisGUI:
         # set the text mark for hdf logging
         if self.log.textbuffer.get_mark( "lastdumped" ) is None:
             self.log.textbuffer.create_mark( "lastdumped", self.log.textbuffer.get_end_iter( ), left_gravity=True )
-
+        # only observe lock file if you want to start immediatly after start up
+        if self.start_immediatly:
+            while os.path.exists(self.lockfile):
+                time.sleep(0.2)
+                gtk.main_iteration()
+                self.experiment_script_statusbar_label.set_text("Waiting for other experiment to finish ... (Loackfile: %s)" % self.lockfile)
+                print "Lockfile still exists, waiting ... (%s)" % self.lockfile
         # start experiment
         try:
             self.spool_dir = os.path.abspath( actual_config[ "spool_dir" ] )
@@ -458,6 +466,9 @@ class DamarisGUI:
         # switch to grapics
         self.main_notebook.set_current_page( DamarisGUI.Monitor_Display )
 
+        # create lock file
+        print "Creating lockfile %s"%self.lockfile
+        lfile = open(self.lockfile, "w").close()
         # set running
         if self.si.exp_handling is not None:
             self.experiment_script_statusbar_label.set_text( "Experiment Script Running (0)" )
@@ -604,7 +615,12 @@ class DamarisGUI:
 
             # keep data to display but throw away everything else
             self.si = None
-
+            # delete locak file so that other experiment can start
+            if os.path.exists(self.lockfile):
+                try:
+                    os.remove(self.lockfile)
+                except:
+                    raise IOError("Could not remove lock file: %s"%self.lockfile)
             return False
 
         # dump states?
@@ -3135,7 +3151,7 @@ class ScriptInterface:
         self.exp_writer = self.res_reader = self.back_driver = None
         if self.backend_executable is not None and self.backend_executable != "":
             self.back_driver = BackendDriver.BackendDriver( self.backend_executable, spool_dir, clear_jobs,
-                                                            clear_results )
+                                                            clear_results)
             if self.exp_script:
                 self.exp_writer = self.back_driver.get_exp_writer( )
             if self.res_script:

tests/exp_test.py

@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ def test():
     return e
 
 def experiment():
-    for i in range(1):
+    for i in range(1000):
         yield test()

tests/res_test.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 def result():
     for num,ts in enumerate(results):
     	data["ts %i"%num] = ts
-        print ts
+        #print ts