madgui 1.11.1

GUI for accelerator simulations using MAD-X.

madgui is a Qt5 python GUI for interactive accelerator simulations using MAD-X.

Requirements

• Python >= 3.4

  On linux, I recommend the latest python version you can find.

  On windows, I recommend WinPython 3.4 Qt5 (should be about 300MiB in size). In particular, you can not use 64bit python 3.5 and above on windows 10, since there are problems building cpymad for these versions, see hibtc/cpymad#41.

• PyQt5

• cpymad, in order to work with MAD-X.

  On windows, installing cpymad should be as simple as:

  pip install cpymad

  Otherwise, please refer to cpymad’s installation instructions.

Installation

You are now ready to install madgui. Type:

pip install madgui

Or, in order to install from the local checkout:

python setup.py install

If you intend to make changes to the madgui code and want to try the effects immediately, use:

python setup.py develop

Usage

Now, you should be able to start madgui with the command:

madgui

or:

python -m madgui

If you are on windows, and nothing happens, you can start madgui manually as follows, which may provide you with more error information:

python -c "from madgui.core.app import main; main()"

Configuration

The application loads a YAML config file madgui.yml in the current directory or the user’s home directory.

Example file:

model_path: ../hit_models
load_default: hht3

onload: |
  from hit_csys.plugin import Loader
  frame.add_online_plugin(Loader)

Note that the onload handler can be used to execute user-defined code, import modules and e.g. add loaders for online control plugins. The API is defined in the madgui.online.api module.

Development guidelines

Coding:

• Try to be consistent with PEP8 and PEP257.

• Add sphinx style docstrings for all modules, classes, functions

• Check regularly for unused imports etc with pyflakes madgui

Naming:

• Stick to names_with_underscores for methods and variable names as recommended by PEP8 (I admit that the code base is currently somewhat inconsistent in this regard)

• class names are in CamelCase

• only PyQt class method overrides and their parameters shall be written in lowerCamelCase

Version control:

Commits should be reversible, independent units if possible. Use descriptive titles and also add an explaining commit message unless the modification is trivial. See also: A Note About Git Commit Messages.

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Copyright 2016-2018 HIT Betriebs GmbH

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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CHANGELOG

1.11.1

Date: 01.06.2018

• fix deadlock appearing mainly on windows during MAD-X commands with long output (the fix will cause minor performance degradation for now)

• avoid some unnecessary updates/redraws on startup

• remember which online plugin to connect to

• some more info log statements

• change onload again to be executed before loading the model

1.11.0

Date: 31.05.2018

Miscellaneous:

• require cpymad 1.0.0rc3

• fix multi grid view not being updated

• add units for K0

• update floor plan survey after twiss

Matching:

• group multiple matching constraints at the same element and position into one statement

• specify weights only for the used quantities

• disable matching if the number of constraints is incorrect

• don’t reset matching when deactivating the match mode

Element/param dialogs:

• fix condition for when globals are editable

• display element attribute names in title case again

• show leading part of variable names in lowercase

• make use of cpymad’s inform and var_type

TreeView:

• improve/refactor internal tableview API

• use tree view

• expand vectors in tree view

• expand variables occuring in expressions in GlobalsEdit/CommandEdit

Undo:

• support undoing simple .str files

• remove flawed accept/reject logic, i.e. “Cancel” buttons, leaving only “Ok” buttons for now (the logic required to properly implement “Cancel” is nontrivial, and the behaviour might still be confusing)

• move undo utils to their own module

• subclass QUndoStack

• never show empty macros (QUndoCommand.setObsolete)

Plotting:

• share loaded curves between all windows

• handle add_curve/del_curve in mainwindow

• “snapshot” now saves all available twiss data so that when changing graphs, the snapshot for the other curves will be shown

• gracefully deal with missing data in user curves (showed exception very loudly previously, showing debug message now)

• invert quadrupole focussing color codes in Y plot

• distinguish SBEND/KICKER sign by shifting the indicator position up/down

• smaller but more distinct indicators

• fade out “off-axis” kickers (e.g. HKICKER in Y plot)

• remove grid lines in Y direction

• fix missing element name in status bar

• update element markers on each draw

1.10.1

Date: 15.05.2018

• fix ElementList.__contains__

• show/edit expression field for global variables

• fix SyntaxError on py34

• require cpymad 1.0.0rc2

• use e_kin only if it was given explicitly when editting beam

• more accurate undo handling for setting new parameters

• use space-insensitive string comparison before updating expressions

• fix bug that results in squared UI unit conversion factor during matching

• use the builtin unit conversion mechanism in match widget

• allow overwriting deferred expressions by direct values when editting

• fix for not tracking modifications to element attributes on the undo stack

• fix obsolete checks that would prevent certain updates to element attributes

• simplify and unify ParamTable flavours by relying on model invalidation

• implement “expression deletion” by replacing them with their values

• make “Expression” field immutable for string attributes

1.10.0

Date: 13.05.2018

• execute onload commands after loading models

• add coordinate axes and size indicator to floor plan

• use logging for warnings in emittance module

• use the global logger instead of personal loggers

• fix bug in TableView that can cause using the wrong quantity for unit conversion

• knobs are now exclusively global variables occuring in deferred expressions

• remove Knob class

• don’t show units in globals dialog nor in matching dialog

• show globals names in uppercase

• use .ui file for mainwindow

• add UI for filtering shown log records in main window

• suppress MAD-X output by default

• refactor and cleanup TableView API considerably; the old ValueProxy classes are now replaced by Delegate classes that no nothing about the individual cell and a Cell class that provides a context

• allow specializing virtually all data roles by passing an apropriate value or callback function to ColumnInfo

• unify and improve handling of checked columns

• remove config item for left/right number alignment

• introduce offsets for monitor calibration

• add naive way to define monitor offsets as the difference between model and measurement

• keep monitor values in MAD-X units internally

• add units to column title for several table views

• add “Expression” column for elements

• highlight user-specified values using bold

• remove DataStore, replaced by simplified TableView API and getter methods

• fix energy/mass UI units

• add “E_kin” field for beam

• fix exception in YAML params exporter

• fix bug in sectormap due to interpolate

• compute sectormap only once between changes, and only on demand

• fix missing redraw after twiss

• fix editing kick (works only for HIT-model style angle/k0 definitions)

• remove Element.id in favor of .index

• remove our own proxy layer for Element, use the cpymad elements directly

• remove support for scalar names referring to vector components (“KNL[0]” etc)

• simplifications for ElementList and how elements can be accessed

• fix open_graph always showing “orbit” plot

• make the different beam diagnostic tasks part of a tabbed dialog, increase code sharing

• rework the beam diagnostic widgets, layout, buttons, defaults

• remember plot window positions, sizes and graph names

• inline some initializer methods in model

• use undo/redo mechanism and a corresponding history widget that fixes the backup/restore mechanism used in several places

1.9.0

Date: 16.04.2018

Improvements:

• add x/y/px/py values to Twiss tab in element info dialog

• replot backtracked twiss on every new monitor readout

• consider SBEND->K0 when detecting knobs

• remove conversion mechanism for knobs, this is now the responsibility of the model itself (by using appropriate expressions) or the online plugin

• use only user defined variables in deferred expressions as knobs, consider fixed numbers as static

• show marks with monitor width/position when opening monitor dialog, can select which ones to show

• add update/backtrack functionality to monitor widget

• show unit on the column title

• add simple data export for monitors

• make the monitorwidget child to the main window (so it will be closed like everything else when the main window is closed)

• persist some settings across multiple madgui runs using session files: main window size/position, model, folder, selected monitors

• enable grid in twiss plot (mainly for y=0)

• add onload config entry for application, and in model

• remove setuptools based entrypoint for online models, must be manually loaded by the user using the onload handler instead

• draw element markers at the exit end of the element

• unify log window with MAD-X input commands, output, as well as logging records, based on PlainTextEdit with extra selections in different colors, much easier on the eyes and hands! Shows line numbers and times on the left.

• show exceptions in log window as well

• silence Pint redefinition warning

• log interleaved MAD-X input/output in chronological order!

• display line numbers for config edit dialog (multi grid)

• show only the actual MAD-X command parameters in the second info tab

• add kick attribute for SBEND in summary tab

Bug fixes:

• fix exception on py34: missing math.isclose

• fix exception in floor plan

• fix error in matching due to discarding Expression

• fix unit conversion for gantry angle

• fix multi grid with assign in config file

• use float edit boxes for target values

• fix input unit of multi-grid target values

• fix bug with disappearing monitor widget (GC related)

Internal changes:

• use function call syntax to get the values from Bool proxies

• remove some remaining py2 compatibility code

• support attribute access and on_change signals for config entries, make config.NumberFormat a simple config entry

• rename user_ns to context

• cleanup some unused imports, undefined names etc (pyflakes)

• replace monospace function by a simpler one without size parameter

• remove uppercase restritcion when accessing element attributes

• adapt to changes in cpymad 1.0 API

• flip definition of gantry_angle (SROTATION->ANGLE has changed in MAD-X 5.04.00)

1.8.0

Date: 25.03.2018

• remove api_version entry from model files

• add menu item to load MAD-X file

• autoscale plots when pressing “Home” button

• add shortcut method model.sectormap for use in ipython shell

• twiss/beam init dialog:

  • remove menuitems for separate init tabs, move to file menu

  • treat attributes specified in the config as reals, not ints

  • update enabled-state of save/open buttons according to current widget

• element infobox:

  • add tab with sectormap for element infobox

  • update title clicking on another element (previously was updated only when changing using the combobox)

  • fix “open” button

• both:

  • use spinbox=true by default

  • use QuantityValue for floats (spin to win!)

  • fix editting bool values

  • fix display bug when showing SpinBox for IntValue

  • fix “save” button

• matching:

  • match against variables inside expressions

  • reuse computed init conditions after applying corrections

• internal resource handling:

  • remove PackageResource

  • replace pkg_resources with importlib_resources where appropriate

  • remove madgui.resource package

• ellipses plots:

  • add ellipse tab for init dialog

  • add x/y labels

  • use tight_layout

  • use ui units

  • draw ellipse over grid

  • fix swapped ellipse axes when alpha is negative

  • fix swapped formulas for the half axes

• units:

  • pass values internally as plain floats, convert only for IO/UI (#2)

  • Replace all Expression instances by their values, get rid of SymbolicValue

  • introduce globals for madx_units and ui_units used for conversion

  • format degrees with “°” symbol

  • improve unit labels for lists

  • remove pint units file, use the default one shipped with pint instead

1.7.2

Date: 05.03.2018

• added missing factor 2 in ellipse axes lengths

• don’t need AttrDict from new cpymad in this version

1.7.1

Date: 02.03.2018

• fix knobs in skew quadrupoles

• hotfix regression with posx/posy aliases

• compatible with hit_models 0.7.0, hit_csys 0.6.0

1.7.0

Date: 02.03.2018

• compute alfa/beta from sigma matrix for consistency

• expose twiss variable holding twiss table in python shell widget

• set better display units for some plots

• keep plot axis limits on most updates

• finally start to use position dependent emittances in some places

• add more plots: momentum/dispersion/phase advance/emittance/gamma

• plot monitors as dashed lines

• plot loaded/snapshot curves without markers

• update infobox window title when changing element

• add tab with global variables to init-settings dialog

• add tabs to info box: primary/expert/twiss/sigma/ellipse

• keep position in info-box when refreshing values or element

• fit small tool buttons to text size

• let user click on zero-length elements

• scale interpolation step length with sequence length, to show smooth curves

• default number_format.align=right

• default mirror_mode=True

• fix python shell, when starting madqt as gui_script under windows

• rework the multi-grid dialog (for orbit correction)

• rename back to madgui

• new versioning scheme, interpret: 0.0.X -> 1.X.0, acknowledging the the 0.X.Y releases of the old wx-based madgui.

• remove pytao binding

• match dialog: dropdown menu for knobs, minor visual improvements

• internal refactoring, module renamings

• can connect online control without loaded model

0.0.6

Date: 26.01.2018

• element info box: add UI to switch element

• floor plan: support 3D models (no more curved sbends anymore though…)

• floor plan: add UI to change view perspective

• floor plan: fix mirror inversion

• main/plot window: set window title

• main window: add config setting for initial position

• codebase: unify the workspace/segment mess, now only have ‘model’ again (it’s unlikely that we will ever be able to work on less/more than one sequence in the same workspace anyway)

0.0.5

Date: 24.01.2018

• fix mass unit in MAD-X

• massive simplification of knobs API for interfacing control system

• can read beam parameters from online plugin

• show updated orbit plot after fitting in orbit-correction-mode (regression)

• open orbit plot for orbit-correction-mode

0.0.4

Date: 09.01.2018

• Emit signal when workspace is changed (for plugins…)

• Show about boxes only if the package exists

• Add about dialog for pytao

• Change tab in settings dialog when clicking menu

• When user invokes an action via a menu and the corresponding dialog already exists, focus the existing window

• No longer show checkboxes for twiss/beam dialogs in menu

• Read spinbox setting from config

• [regression] Fix exception (closed logfile) when opening different model

• [regression] Fix exception in online-control module when changing values into MAD-X

0.0.3

Date: 06.01.2018

• fuzzy select when removing constraints in matching mode (middle click)

• start log threads as daemon thread (never blocks program exit)

• thread safe access to madx/tao

• fetch element data for indicators in background

• fix missing .ui files in installation

• fix crash on windows at startup when starting via gui_scripts entrypoint

0.0.2

Date: 05.12.2017

• continuous matching (within any element position)

• fix bugs in matching code

• updated dependencies: pint 0.8.1, cpymad>=0.18.2, pytao>=0.0.1

0.0.1

Date: 30.11.2017

First reference point to define somewhat stable versions.

List of features:

• cpymad/pytao as simulation backends

• plots: alfa/beta/envelope/orbit; and the ones defined by tao

• integrated python shell (ipython/jupyter) not very useful as of yet: limited exhibition of objects, no convenient APIs provided (plotting)

• log tab that shows madx/tao output

• tab that shows madx/tao commands

• display and edit box for beam parameters; initial conditions (i.e. twiss); and element attributes (read-only so far)

• 2D floor plan

• matching (interactive + dialog)

• emittance (dialog)

• orbit alignment: 2-grid + N+optic methods