bitten-slave GUI

[mpotter@…]

Add an optional GUI to the bitten-slave, either as a command line option, a separate program that wraps the bitten-slave, or a different version of the bitten-slave.

Presentation

This GUI would basically be structured as an informational frame around a scrolling text field where the normal bitten-slave messages appear. The informational frame could give various statuses, such as:

• General:
  • Slave Name.
  • Configuration using.
  • Time of (or time since) last Server communication (Ping or other).
• When working:
  • Current Recipe working on.
  • Current Step in Recipe working on.
  • Date Time started current Recipe.
  • Time spent on current Recipe
  • Date Time started current Step.
  • Time spent on current Step.
• When idle:
  • Time of last Server pole.
  • Status of last pole, if a failure.

Implementation

This GUI addition ideally needs to be able to run under anything that bitten-slave runs on providing it supports graphical users interface. Doing a ​quick search, I would think using ​TK might be a good choice.

Future Additions

This application could be expanded in the future to include other features such as:

• The bitten-slave message window could:
  • Add time stamps to each line.
  • Highlight messages differently based off of:
    • Source of message:
      • From slave
      • From external commands called by recipe.
    • Destination of message:
      • Standard Out.
      • Standard Error.
    • Regular expressions:
      • Appears to be a warning message.
      • Appears to be an error message.
• The GUI could control the slave in additional ways, such as:
  • Exit slave when finished with current recipe.

[hodgestar]

Another option for cross-platform GUIs is Greg Ewing's PyGUI ​http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python_gui/.