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action state machine

Overview

This is issue was created by splitting issue #57 originally submitted on bugzilla by Antoine Tacheau @tacheaua, 2017-09-11. This issue is about providing an associated protocol file to enable double-click to start the action state machine from a desktop without using the command line.

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

-- Antoine Tacheau

Hints

The best would probably be to :

• add another option to the command line --protocol-file (or something like that)
• parse the corresponding .prot file (or .casm of, as .asm extension is already used a lot, especially for assembler and the other suggestion is very looong!)
• a .prot can be a very simple file with
  • first line: the filepath to the .scxml
  • second line: filepath to the output directory
• add another page to the Qt Wizard describe above to ask the user if she/he wants to save a corresponding .prot for later reuse
• make sure that at file can be associated to the application (on windows reproduce what is done in camitk-imp: at first launch, ask the user if s⋅he wants .prot to be associated directly to the application).
• write a wiki documentation to show how to associate .prot files to the action state state machine for Windows, KDE and MacOS X