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>
