Changeset 96 for trunk/python/Rappture/number.py

Timestamp:

Oct 10, 2005 3:29:58 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

dkearney

Message:

added units conversion to coerce to the number.py
added a command to exec a new process to launch the gui in interface.py
these might make it possible to run examples/app-fermi/2.0

File:

• trunk/python/Rappture/number.py (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/python/Rappture/number.py

@@ -7 +7 @@
 # ======================================================================
 import Rappture
+import Rappture.Units
 
 class number:
@@ -31 +32 @@
                 attrName = attr
         s = Rappture.driver.get(self.path+'.'+attrName)
-        return (float(s),other)
+        # return (float(s),other)
+        #
+        # the following code doesnt work if the <units> tag does not exist
+        # becasue it sends an empty string to convert and it fails there
+        toUnit = Rappture.driver.get(self.path+'.units')
+        if (toUnit != None):
+            val = Rappture.Units.convert(s,to=toUnit,units="off")
+        else :
+            # you have to hope the user didn't put units onto the <default>
+            # value (which is unlikely in most cases, btw)
+            val = float(s)
+        return (val,other)