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Thomas Ales f823e2eb42 Camera window: T3R and BBD202 jog controls beside the image
Focusing the T-axis and framing the sample on the XY stage are both done
by eye, but the controls were in the main window and the T3R panel, so
the operator had to look away from the video to move anything.

Adds gui/jog_panel.py with two panels, laid out in a column to the right
of the camera image:

  T3RJogPanel   per-axis enable, hold-to-jog ◀/▶, live position, and a
                per-channel microstep combo (SET_MICROSTEP is per channel
                on this controller).  Jog velocity and acceleration are
                shared by the four axes.
  BBDJogPanel   an X/Y jog pad, step size, and velocity/acceleration.
                The stage runs closed-loop servos, so there is no
                microstepping to set — the panel says so rather than
                offering a control that does nothing.

The T3R's JOG is a continuous velocity move, so the button holds it and
the release stops it; the BBD has no such command, so a held button
repeats a short relative move the way the main window already does.
Only axes this panel started are ever stopped — closing the window or
hitting "Stop jogging" can't cut a scan's rotation short.

Both panels take the driver and worker the main window already owns, so
a jog here is the same command as a jog there.  The BBD202 worker grows
a set_velocity command, and its jog now carries the step with it instead
of the caller writing _jog_step onto the worker from the GUI thread.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-04 08:48:29 -05:00
Thomas Ales 23546a03f7 Pre-scan angle inspection: park the rig per angle, read the response on the scope
A 9-angle scan takes hours, and an angle that responds poorly still produces
rows that look structurally fine in the file — the SAW packet is just not
there. This lets the operator walk the angles first, parking the rig at a
random point in each, and judge the response before committing to the run.

Nothing reads the scope. The operator inspects the instrument directly, so
there is no transfer path, no plotting, and no waveform crossing the module
boundary — test_inspection_never_reads_a_waveform_back pins that, since it is
the kind of premise a later change erodes without noticing.

core/scope_inspect.py — the scope state worth looking at, which is not the
scan's state:
- plain rising-edge trigger on CH2 at 2.0 V, not the scan's logic AND of the
  laser pulse and the stage gate, so a stationary stage still triggers
- FastFrame off, SAMPLE (no averaging) — a weak or intermittent response is
  exactly what is being looked for, and averaging would hide it
- free-running (STOPAfter RUNSTop + STATE RUN) so the trace keeps updating
  while the operator looks at it
- CH1 keeps the acquisition front-end verbatim, so what is on screen is what
  a scan would record
- CH3/CH4 become bias monitors sharing one scale and position, since the
  comparison is by eye and only works if a division means the same on each.
  100 mV/div with ground 3.5 divisions below centre puts 0–700 mV on screen
  with headroom on an 8- or 10-division graticule (the signal never goes
  negative, hence moving the trace down).

core/angle_inspect.py — AngleInspector, headless and Qt-free like ScanEngine.
Points are drawn from the angle's own bounding box: Y from its actual row
positions and X uniformly across its data window, so the point is somewhere
the scan would really sample rather than merely inside the box. New Point
re-rolls without rotating, which is what separates a bad spot on the sample
from a bad angle. The stage gate is held off throughout, and the rotator goes
home on stop.

gui/inspect_bridge.py — QtAngleInspector on the existing QueueWorker base.
Inspection is click-driven rather than one long run, so the worker blocks on
its queue between commands and an open window costs nothing. BBD position
polling is suppressed while inspecting, for the same reason the scan does it:
the shared TX queue.

sc3_aui_app.py — AngleInspectWindow (angle list, prev/next, New Point) driven
off the plan currently entered in the scan panel, so it inspects exactly the
scan about to be run. Navigation locks while the stage moves. The list syncs
via itemClicked rather than currentRowChanged, so echoing the worker's
position back does not re-trigger the move it is reporting.

README picks up the new modules, and scope_burst.py which the previous merge
left out of the structure listing. 114 tests passing, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 12:41:52 -05:00
Thomas Ales 52fdcdd9f3 Make row packing toggleable: pad (default) or strict abort
A mis-triggered row cannot be written as it arrived — v6 declares n_frames per
row in the header and has no per-row length field, so a short or long row
would shift every later row in the file. Until now the only policy was to
square it up, which keeps the scan running but leaves the affected row
indistinguishable from a good one afterwards: nothing in the file records that
it was padded.

strict_rows selects the other trade. On any frame-count mismatch the scan
stops instead of writing the row, so a data run either produces rows that mean
what the header says they mean or fails loudly. Default stays pad, so existing
behaviour is unchanged.

_warn_frame_delta becomes _check_frame_delta, since it now decides rather than
just reports. Both acquisition paths already call it before writing anything
for the row (CH1 leads SCAN_CHANNELS, and the burst path checks every row up
front), so an abort leaves the file on a whole-row boundary rather than a
half-written row — test_strict_row_packing_writes_nothing_for_the_failed_row
pins that.

Plumbed through QtScanController to a checkbox in the scan panel, persisted in
ScanDefaults alongside burst_mode. scan_format.md documents both policies and
notes that the choice is not recorded in the file.

The row-clipping setup in the padding test is now a _clip_one_row helper,
reused by the strict tests. 92 tests passing, ruff clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 12:32:09 -05:00
Thomas Ales ef8c0feb91 Expose burst acquisition in the app; refresh scan_format acquisition docs
Wires the burst_mode flag through QtScanController to ScanEngine and adds a
checkbox to the scan panel. The setting persists via ScanDefaults like the
other scan fields, defaulting to off — per-row acquisition stays the default
path until burst mode has run on the rig and the gate-off preflight has
settled which TRIGOUT value idles the pin low.

scan_format.md — the acquisition settings table had drifted from the code it
claimed to describe: it attributed the settings to sc3_aui_app.py (they moved
to core/scope_sras.py in the Phase 2 extraction), listed a 1.24 V trigger
level and 0 % offset where the code sets 0.500 V and HORizontal:POSition 30,
and did not mention the logic-AND scan trigger at all. Corrected, pointed at
the module that actually owns them, and noted that none of it affects byte
layout — only where the acoustic packet lands inside a frame.

Added an acquisition-paths section: the two paths write byte-identical files
and the choice is a runtime flag that is not recorded in the file, so a
reader never needs to care which produced it. Documents where row boundaries
come from in a burst and that either path squares rows up to n_frames.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-02 12:18:23 -05:00
Thomas Ales 44febe34b8 Phase 5: shared worker base, self-rescheduling polls, driver robustness
gui/qt_workers.py — one QueueWorker base replaces the per-device command
queue + dispatch + signal boilerplate. The loop blocks on the queue
instead of waking 10-20x/second forever (test_idle_worker_does_not_spin
asserts an idle worker burns ~no CPU). PollingQueueWorker adds
self-rescheduling polling: the next poll is queued only after the
previous finishes, so a device slower than the interval can't accumulate
a backlog (test_polling_never_overlaps_or_backs_up).

Helios responsiveness — the concrete bug that motivated the above: a free
running 1 s QTimer queued a status poll that took ~2 s, so the queue grew
for as long as the panel stayed connected.
- helios_laser._query reads until the CR terminator instead of sleeping a
  fixed 0.05 + 0.2 s per query
- one _query_int() helper replaces five copies of parse-with-logging
- polling is now driven by the worker; HeliosWindow's QTimer is gone
- dropped __del__, which disabled the laser and wrote to the serial port
  from the garbage collector at an unpredictable time

helios_test_app.py — the worker was moveToThread'd but every call site
invoked its methods directly, so all serial I/O (including the sleeps)
ran on the GUI thread; Query All froze the UI for ~2 s. Calls now go
through a queued signal to a pyqtSlot. Also: connect/disconnect cycles
leaked a QThread + worker + 9 connections each time; 16 copies of the
not-connected guard collapse to _require_connection(); the Query Power
button called a method that has never existed (AttributeError popup) and
is now disabled and documented in KNOWN_ISSUES.

DCBiasImageWidget preallocates its image and uses set_data/set_clim, so
the live preview stops rebuilding the array and the whole artist tree per
row (O(rows^2) over a scan).

bbd20x: connect() now raises when no bays respond instead of reporting
success on the wrong port; disconnect() joins with a timeout so a wedged
reader can't hang shutdown; one _channel_for() helper replaces four
copy-pasted axis mappings; hardcoded travel limits become TRAVEL_MM; the
joke error strings are gone.

gui/widgets.py adds the shared ConnectionBar / PortSelector / bounded
LogConsole / StatusGrid for the test benches to adopt. 65 tests passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 11:21:29 -05:00
Thomas Ales afe33249d1 Phase 4: extract headless ScanEngine; de-Qt the T3R driver
The headline of the refactor. Scan orchestration no longer lives inside a
QObject that reaches through Qt workers for its hardware handles.

core/scan_engine.py — ScanEngine(stage, scope, rotator, plan, out_path,
resume, callbacks). Takes the concrete drivers, blocks in run(), reports
via plain callables, and prompts through an injected blocking callable.
No Qt import anywhere in the path (test_engine_imports_without_qt proves
it), so a simpler GUI or a CLI can drive the identical acquisition.

Supporting extractions, all Qt-free:
- core/scope_sras.py  — SCPI policy: channel profiles, trigger programming,
  background average, per-row FastFrame transfer
- core/rotation.py    — RotationAxis + RotationSettings (the GR_* constants)
- core/scan_resume.py — frontier contiguity rule + settings compatibility
- gui/scan_bridge.py  — QtScanController, exposing exactly the signal
  surface the old ScanWorker had, so MainWindow's connections are unchanged

hardware/t3r_driver.py is now Qt-free: a plain Signal class, a threading
reader, and a polling thread instead of QObject/QThread/QTimer.
gui/qt_t3r.py re-emits its callbacks as queued Qt signals for the panels.

Fixes carried by the extraction:
- rotation waits on the driver's MOTION_DONE event instead of
  time.sleep(estimate + 0.5)
- abort during an operator prompt now takes effect; the old
  _prompt_event.wait() had no timeout and could not be interrupted
- the poll timer is a thread, so an I/O error tearing down the driver no
  longer calls QTimer.stop() from the wrong thread
- T3RDriver.disconnect() renamed close(); it shadowed QObject.disconnect()
- per-frame DC means use np.frombuffer over the joined block instead of
  struct.unpack per frame (~16k tuple allocations per row)

tests/fakes.py + test_scan_engine.py (14 tests) assert the exact command
sequence, file layout, resume seeking, abort/pause, and geometry
rejection before any hardware call; test_scan_resume.py covers the
frontier rule. 58 passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-28 11:11:09 -05:00