DAMARIS can now run scripts immediatly upon startup.

This is the first step towards a simple queing implementation.

src/experiments/Experiment.py

@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ class Experiment:
 
         :param float time: seconds to wait
         :param int ttls: lines to set (integer)
-        :param bool gating: reduce time by gating, i.e. wat in front of rf_pulse
+        :param bool gating: reduce time by gating, i.e. wait in front of rf_pulse
         :return:
         """
         if gating:

src/gui/DamarisGUI.py

@@ -52,11 +52,9 @@ matplotlib.rcParams[ "axes.formatter.limits" ] = "-3,3"
 
 if matplotlib.rcParams[ "backend" ] == "GTK":
     from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtk import FigureCanvasGTK as FigureCanvas
-
     max_points_to_display = 0  # no limit
 elif matplotlib.rcParams[ "backend" ] == "GTKCairo":
     from matplotlib.backends.backend_gtkcairo import FigureCanvasGTKCairo as FigureCanvas
-
     max_points_to_display = 1 << 14  # cairo cannot render longer paths than 18???
 else:
     # default
@@ -130,7 +128,7 @@ class DamarisGUI:
     Stop_State = 3
     Quit_State = 4
 
-    def __init__( self, exp_script_filename=None, res_script_filename=None ):
+    def __init__( self, exp_script_filename=None, res_script_filename=None, start_immediatly=False ):
         # state: edit, run, stop, quit
         # state transitions:
         # edit -> run|quit
@@ -172,6 +170,15 @@ class DamarisGUI:
                 res_script = self.sw.load_file_as_unicode( res_script_filename )
         self.sw.set_scripts( exp_script, res_script )
 
+        if start_immediatly:
+            if exp_script and res_script:
+                self.start_immediatly = start_immediatly
+            else:
+                raise ("RuntimeError", "experiment and result scripts not given,\
+                                aborting immediate start of experiment")
+        else:
+            self.start_immediatly = False
+
         self.statusbar_init( )
 
         self.main_window.show_all( )
@@ -226,16 +233,16 @@ class DamarisGUI:
         # prolong lifetime of clipboard till the very end (avoid error message)
         self.main_clipboard = self.sw.main_clipboard
         gtk.gdk.threads_enter( )
+        if self.start_immediatly:
+            self.toolbar_run_button.emit("clicked")
+
         gtk.main( )
         gtk.gdk.threads_leave( )
-
         self.si = None
         self.sw = None
         self.config = None
         self.xml_gui = None
 
-    # event handling: the real acitons in gui programming
-
     # first global events
 
     def quit_event( self, widget, data=None ):