SICS-264 Allow sequencing of motors while counting

A "waitfor" command has been implement which waits for an object to finish after running the given command.

r2687 | ffr | 2008-08-29 22:09:19 +1000 (Fri, 29 Aug 2008) | 3 lines

site_ansto/instrument/util/eventutil.tcl

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+# TODO Maybe add ::event::onstart and ::event::onfinish commands to execute some
+# code when an object starts or finishes
+# eg
+# onstart hmm { do something }
+
+namespace eval event {
+  variable sobjBusy
+  variable END_EVENT
+
+  set sobjBusy 0
+  array set END_EVENT {Motor MOTEND HistMem COUNTEND SingleCounter COUNTEND}
+  namespace export waitfor
+}
+
+proc ::event::waitCB {args} {
+  variable sobjBusy
+  set sobjBusy 0
+}
+publish ::event::waitCB user
+
+##
+# @brief Wait for a sics object to finish what it's doing.
+# waitfor hmm {histmem start}
+# waitfor {samx samz} {run samx 3 samz 4}
+proc ::event::waitfor {sobj args} {
+  variable END_EVENT
+  variable sobjBusy
+
+  if [ catch {
+    set valid_sobjType [array names END_EVENT]
+    set sobjType [SplitReply [sicslist $sobj type] ]
+    if {[lsearch $valid_sobjType $sobjType ] == -1} {
+      error "ERROR: You can only wait for the following types of objects $valid_sobjType"
+    }
+    set CBID [SplitReply [scriptcallback connect $sobj $END_EVENT($sobjType) ::event::waitCB ] ]
+    set sobjBusy 1
+    set oldStatus [lindex [SplitReply [status]] 0]
+    eval $args
+    while {$sobjBusy == 1} {
+      wait 2
+    } 
+    scriptcallback remove $sobj $CBID
+    SetStatus $oldStatus
+  } message ] {
+    scriptcallback remove $sobj $CBID
+    SetStatus $oldStatus
+    if {$::errorCode=="NONE"} {return "Return: $message"}
+    return -code error "Caught $message"
+  }
+}
+
+namespace import ::event::waitfor
+
+publish waitfor user