The mg_monitorOutput program provides a display of the output that comes from programs run under that DAQ manager. THe parameters host and user are, respectively, the host on which the manager is running and the user that started the manager. These two parameters allow the program to locate the service advertised by the manager.
If the manager exits, or otherwise drops its connection to mg_monitorOutput, the program attempts to retry for some period of time and, if not successful, allows the user to retry once they are sure the manager is up and running or to exit if they are certain it won't be up in a reasonable time.
The user interface consists of a menubar with a menu. Below the menubar is a large text widget with a vertical scroll bar. Output are appended to the end of the text in this text widget, as they are received from the manager. A limited history of output is maintained and the scrollbar can be used to examine older output. Below the output display is a status line that indicates whether or not the program is connected to the manager.
The menu provides commands that allow you to modify the settings of the output menu as well as the connection retry settings. Let's look at the menu choices in this menu.
Provides a dialog that allows you to set the characterisics of the output window. The dialog provides a spinbox that allows you to set the number of lines that are retained. The checkbox labeled Show debugging otuput is not used and is ignored a this time.
Set the history to the desired number of lines and then click to make the change or to remove the dialog\ without making any changes.
This brings up a dialog that describes what the program will do when it loses connection with the manager. If the connection is lost the program will attempt to restablish its connection for a specified number of retries at a specified retry interval. Once the retry count is exceeded, the program will prompt for what to do next.
The menu selection pops up a dialog that allows you to set both of these parameters. The Retries before giving up spin box sets the number of retries. The Time in secs between retries spin box allows you to set the retry interval in seconds.
To accept the new paramters click to reject them, click .