x01dcandClaude Sonnet 5
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The "camera running" toggle (IDSCamera.live_mode_enabled) was flapping
on/off during the smear sweep, and on real hardware that's genuinely
slow (starting/stopping the live acquisition thread has real driver
overhead, unlike the simulator). Root cause: composite pushes shared
the same device_preview channel the live thread continuously publishes
to, so live_mode_enabled had to be toggled off around every push to
keep the composite from being instantly overwritten.
Give the composite its own channel instead:
- IDSCamera gains a smear_preview PreviewSignal (no rotation_90/
transpose configured -- composite data is already display-oriented)
and push_smear_preview(), mirroring push_preview_image() but fully
decoupled from the live channel.
- XRayEye gains set_live_view_signal() to switch which camera signal
the live Image view displays, defaulting to the normal channel for
every fresh GUI instance; on_live_view_enabled() now uses whichever
signal is currently selected instead of a hardcoded constant.
- _smear_sweep() switches the GUI to "smear_preview" for the sweep and
pushes composite updates there -- live_mode_enabled is never touched
at all (just ensured on at the start, exactly like _live_sweep()).
The GUI is deliberately left on the composite after a successful
sweep until the caller has collected the operator's click, then
switched back to "image"; on KeyboardInterrupt it's switched back
immediately.
This removes the resume_live/hold_display_s toggle-avoidance mechanism
added in def9bf4, which is no longer needed with a dedicated channel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Getting Started with Testing using pytest
BEC is using the pytest framework. It can be installed via
pip install pytest
in your python environment.
We note that pytest is part of the optional-dependencies [dev] of the plugin package.
Introduction
Tests in this package should be stored in the tests directory.
We suggest to sort tests of different submodules, i.e. scans or devices in the respective folder structure, and to folow a naming convention of <test_module_name.py>.
It is mandatory for test files to begin with test_ for pytest to discover them.
To run all tests, navigate to the directory of the plugin from the command line, and run the command
pytest -v --random-order ./tests
Note, the python environment needs to be active.
The additional arg -v allows pytest to run in verbose mode which provides more detailed information about the tests being run.
The argument --random-order instructs pytest to run the tests in random order, which is the default in the CI pipelines.
Test examples
Writing tests can be quite specific for the given function. We recommend writing tests as isolated as possible, i.e. try to test single functions instead of full classes. A very useful class to enable isolated testing is MagicMock. In addition, we also recommend to take a look at the How-to guides from pytest.