21 Jul 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, error handling is hard
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Happy summer to everybody.
When programming in general, and when programming MIDAS, there is always a struggle
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30 Jul 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Limitations of MSL
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> Would it be possible to add something like the following?
> 343 if (!isdigit(value1_var[i]) && value1_var[i] != '.')
> 344 break;
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05 Aug 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Precedence of equipment/common structure
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Today I fixed a long-annoying problem. We have in each front-end an equipment structure
which defined the event id, event type, readout frequency etc. This is mapped to the ODB
subtree
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06 Aug 2019, Thomas Lindner, Info, Precedence of equipment/common structure
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Hi Stefan,
This change does not sound like a good idea to me. I think that this change will cause just as much confusion as before; probably more since you are changing |
06 Aug 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Precedence of equipment/common structure
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Hi Thomas,
the change only affects Eqipment/<name>/common not the Equipment/<name>/Settings.
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06 Aug 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Precedence of equipment/common structure
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After some internal discussion, I decided to undo my previous change again, in order not to break existing habits. Instead, I created a new function
set_odb_equipment_common(equipment, name);
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08 Aug 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, c++11 for RHEL/SL/CentOS-6
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The default el6 (RHEL/SL/CentOS-6) compiler is gcc-4.4.7, it does not support c++11, not even a little bit.
Do this to install newer c++ compilers and build MIDAS with c++11:
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08 Aug 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS will use C++11
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After much discussion, and following the MIDAS workshop at TRIUMF, we made the decision to use C++11 in MIDAS.
There are many benefits, and only one drawback - no c++11 compilers in the default OS install on older computers (i.e.
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09 Aug 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Precedence of equipment/common structure
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> Today I fixed a long-annoying problem. ...
> /Equipment/<name>/Common
> In the past, the ODB setting took precedence over the frontend structure...
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13 Aug 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, Precedence of equipment/common structure
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> Lacking any ideas for improvements, I vote for the status quo. (plus a review of the documentation to ensure we have clearly
> written up what each entry in "common" does and whether the user is permitted to edit it in odb).
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14 Aug 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, New history plot facility
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During my visit at TRIUMF we rewrote the history plotting functionality of midas. Instead of
static GIF images, we have now interactive JavaScript panels where we can scroll, zoom,
inspect values and much more (example is attached). We are now in a state where this is still
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06 Sep 2019, Andreas Suter, Info, New history plot facility
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I like the new history system very much, but I stumbled over a couple of issues.
I used the version "Thu Aug 29 08:24:29 2019 +0200 -
midas-2019-06-b-244-gdd6585bb on branch develop":
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06 Sep 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, New history plot facility
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> 1) it would be nice to have an option to format the label output (see attachment 1)
That's clearly a bug, I will fix it.
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06 Sep 2019, Andreas Suter, Info, New history plot facility
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> > 2) the background of a history plot is very handy if you only show one measure.
> > If you have multiple ones (see attachment 2), this is not the case anymore. It
> > would be nice if the background could be enabled/disabled.
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07 Sep 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, New history plot facility
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> This I found out, yet the attachment here shows another case where it would be useful to be
> able to disable the background, namely if you have positive and negative measures in one
> plot. Somehow it suggests that CH1 and CH2 show very different values, whereas it is only a |
07 Sep 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, New history plot facility
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> This I found out, yet the attachment here shows another case where it would be useful to be
> able to disable the background, namely if you have positive and negative measures in one
> plot. Somehow it suggests that CH1 and CH2 show very different values, whereas it is only a
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08 Sep 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, New history plot facility
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> 1) it would be nice to have an option to format the label output (see attachment 1)
I fixed that in the current version.
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10 Sep 2019, Andreas Suter, Info, New history plot facility
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Our typical use case is that a lot of people are connected to the experiment
having some history tabs open most of the time. Hence, I setup a test system and
connect to it from all kind of systems/browsers. What I see currently quite
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12 Sep 2019, Pintaudi Giorgio, Info, History panels in custom pages
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> > A new tag has been implemented to display history panels in custom pages, integrated in the
> > new custom page design from 2017. The full documentation can be found at
> >
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12 Sep 2019, Stefan Ritt, Info, History panels in custom pages
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Indeed there was a bug in some JavaScript code, which I fixed here: https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/commits/d2b1a783240e252820c622001e15c09c5d7798c0
Note that your code will bring you the "old style" history panels (with GIF images). If you want the new style (interactive canvas panels), you need the |