scan 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