data watcher

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The widget will observe folder and sub folders of a given path and waiting for acquisition to be ended. The widget will infinitely wait until an acquisition is ended. If an acquisition is ended then a signal containing the folder path is emitted.

  • ‘Select folder’ will bring you to a dialog to select the top level directory to observe.

  • ‘Start observation’ to launch the observation.

  • ‘Stop observation’ to launch the observation.

Environment variable

The widget will automatically set the value of DATADIR if such an environment variable exists.

Note

Internally the observation will be runned from a thread managed by ftseries