Dear friends of GNU Radio,
I have a question about blocking, threads and GUI. Thing is, I am writing
an GUI application (in PyQT4) where the user can start a GNU Radio
flowgraph by a button. The flowgraph records data from an USRP and some
additional blocks. Now, I want only a finite amount of data so I have added
a "head" block to my flowgraph. The obvious way to run this is as the
following pseudo code program:
# Define flowgraph
class USRP(gr.top_block)
...connect USRP -> head_block_> file_sink
# Define GUI
GUI__init__()
gui.button.clicked.connect(startUSRP) ...
# Define action to be taken when button clicked, i.e. start flowgraph
startUSRP()
tb=USRP()
tb.start()
tb.wait() # Will block everything until finished
# define and run GUI
main()
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
window = main_window()
window.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
My code runs as expected, in the sense data is produced, but tb.wait is a
blocking call. This means that my GUI will freeze until the flowgraph has
ended. The GUI must not be blocked during flowgraph execution. Also, I
would like to track the progress of the flowgraph (the number of elements
processed / total elements requested). I tried to search online, and there
is some related information, but unfortunately I have not managed to
understand how to put the pieces together yet. I imagine something like
using QTimer to periodically check the status of the flowgraph, by asking
the flowgraph in some way.
This flowgraph ends with writing to a file, after the head_block. Hence, I
suspect that just checking the head_block might not give me all data?
Either I need to add a small extra delay to make sure the file sink gets
all data, or check the number of items passed to the file sink itself? So I
guess the short question is:
How to periodically check if a started flowgraph has finished, without
using a blocking call such as tb.wait?
I would be very grateful for any hints. I don't know much about C++ and
threading, which makes finding clues from the C++ API more difficult.
However, I am eager to learn if anyone would enlighten me on this.
Best regards,
Eskil
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