[Swift-devel] Tryswift enhancements

[David Kelly]

Maybe we should take a look at these and see if we should change them in
Swift as well? If the ticker naming is not clear in tryswift, it may not
clear from the command line either. Here is the list of ticker values I see:

Initializing
Selecting site
Stage in
Submitting
Submitted
Active
Stage out
Failed
Replicating
Finished in previous run
Finished successfully

I don't think most people are interested in many of these, or understand
what they mean. I'd be in favor of a cleaner ticker, perhaps with just
timestamp, "pending", "active", and "completed" nicely formatted and
aligned.


On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Michael Wilde <wilde at anl.gov> wrote:

>  For the progress output:
>
> Swift trunk swift-r7139 cog-r3806
> RunID: 20140416-1029-alqxvvi1
> Progress:  time: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:29:54 -0500
> Progress:  time: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:29:55 -0500  Selecting site:7  Active:3
> Progress:  time: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:29:56 -0500  Selecting site:7  Active:3  Finished successfully:3
> Progress:  time: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:29:57 -0500  Selecting site:7  Active:3  Finished successfully:6
> Progress:  time: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:29:58 -0500  Selecting site:7  Active:3  Finished successfully:9
>
> - start with Swift run starting at 10:23:03
> - suppress Swift version # and RunID lines
> - change: Progress:  time: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:29:58 -0500  Selecting site:7  Active:3  Finished successfully:9
>   to:  10:29:58   Ready:7   Active:3  Done:9  [Failed: 3] (show failures only if non-zero)
>
> Use spaces to make these line up "nicely"
>
> - add a line saying Swift run completed at 10:24:59
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 4/15/14, 11:32 PM, Michael Wilde wrote:
>
> David, just to clarify: by the [Explain] notation below I just meant to
> make "Explain" a "button".
>
> - Mike
>
> On 4/15/14, 3:56 PM, Michael Wilde wrote:
>
> [Moving discussion to swift-devel]
>
> On 4/15/14, 12:06 PM, David Kelly wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> One idea I had for tryswift was to change the way that file outputs are
> displayed. Keeping them in a drop down list saves some space and I think
> makes it look a little cleaner. To see what I mean, check out
> http://swiftvm4.ci.uchicago.edu and try the foreach example (still
> working on some CSS changes there as well).
>
> Right now it only handles html/text, but if the file output was images or
> videos, they could be loaded in the same window. Just wanted to get your
> initial thoughts before I did too much with it.
>
> Hi David,
>
> I think this is heading in a nice direction. It looks very nice and clean.
>
> Some thoughts:
>
> Top window:
> - Add text in front of menu:   Example: [example-menu] [Explain]
> - [Explain] button should pop out in a new window, sized and placed
> "nicely" (not quite sure what nicely involves yet ;)
>
> Bottom window
> - its hard to tell when the script completes or how many files it produced
> - when you view a file it overwrites the progress window
> - (reset is broken, btw)
>
> How about:
> - dont show the output-files menu while the script is running
> - when script completes, show the menu with a label [N files produced:]
> [output-files-menu]
> - when you select a file, show it in a new popup window "placed nicely"
> with a [close] button top and bottom
> - allowing that window to be multi-media sounds nice
>
> Bigger project:
> - for status, show running tally of the status to the right of the control
> buttons
> - add button [Progress log] that shows the progress to date or after the
> fact, as a pop-up. With cleaner timestamp etc. WHich we should make the
> default for all Swift runs.
>
> So with this improved progress menu, you'd have a very clean look with the
> Swift text taking most of the window, bracketd by a script-selector stripe
> at the top and an execution control strip at the bottom.
>
> How do these sound to you?
>
> - Mike
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Wilde
> Mathematics and Computer Science          Computation Institute
> Argonne National Laboratory               The University of Chicago
>
>
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