lyse: adding shots from multiple folders

[Edvinas Gvozdiovas]

Hello,

Is it true that there's no way to add .h5 files from multiple folders to the lyse analysis stack without going through each folder manually using the GUI?

If so, is there a way to add shots to the lyse stack by running a multi shot script that feeds lyse all the desired paths? It is rather trivial to write a script that digs through folders and subfolders and collects all the .h5 files inside.

[Philip Starkey]

You can submit shots to lyse using ZMQ. See how BLACS does it here: https://github.com/labscript-suite/blacs/blob/7a84e382a4dced20d4e28335a2e3bf034b38c79e/blacs/analysis_submission.py#L255-L258

Should be easy enough to replicate in another script! The lyse port is defined in the labconfig file.

Let us know how it goes 🙂

[Jan Deppe]

Hey :)

I did something like this last fall, because we had the same problem with clicking through the folders. 

The history can be found here https://github.com/labscript-suite/lyse/compare/master...Jezz3:lyse:load_multiple_files_from_folders 

and the code here https://github.com/Jezz3/lyse/tree/load_multiple_files_from_folders.

The GUI for the folder loading looks different then the GUI for file loading. I did this because i found this stack overflow conversation, where they describe how to select multiple folders with a non native interface

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38252419/how-to-get-qfiledialog-to-select-and-return-multiple-folders

Load multiple folders dialog

standart dialog for loading files

I could do a pull request for this on github. Till now i hesitated, because the interface is non-native. I have only tested this on a windows system.