Launcher wizard for Action State Machine interface

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Submitted on bugzilla by Antoine Tacheau @tacheaua, 2017-09-11

Product

Action state machine

Overview

Currently, we need to open a terminal and type this kind of command to start asm:

camitk-actionstatemachine -f <ProtocolFile> -o <LogFolder>

Since Action State Machine can be used by 'basic user' to run new protocol, it would be easier if a launcher or an interface were available.

For instance: a gui interface in order to select which protocol should be started or - a specific protocol file (only changing extension by .asm, .prot, .protocolASM ...) to be associated to asm executable. Thus, users only have to double click to start application (moved to issue #67 (closed))

It is also required to set a default behavior for log file argument

-- Antoine Tacheau

As of 4 July 2018, this issue was split in two. Current issue is about showing a dialog if no command line argument is given. The other issue (issue #67 (closed)) is about defining a specific "protocol" file that contains the SCXML file as well as the log folder and adding a -protocol option to provide this file.

Hints

I think the best would be to:

• detect the case when the user launches camitk-actionstatemachine without any command line arguments (not even --help)
• in this case, offer a mini Qt Wizard with:
  • 1 page with explanation why the user is asked for more
  • 1 page to choose the scxml
  • 1 page to choose the output directory
  • launch the normal process