palaeoware / trevosim

TREvoSim - The [Tr]ee [Evo]lutionary [Sim]ulator program
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Run/Stop button enablement #44

Closed ms609 closed 5 months ago

ms609 commented 5 months ago

Hi Russell, I've found an hour to start catching up with your recent changes, and have just built the latest version (946b9d031a83f0c6e7caf551bea7401f7401568c).

I've opened a saved settings file (.xml file ending changed to .txt): tax320_rate2.51.txt

When I click "Run" I see the Error "strip uninformative <1, recalculate?", and select "Yes".

RussellGarwood commented 5 months ago

With above commit, I have fixed this issue, which was due to a silly mistake on my part - thanks for highlighting it. I've also made it so the recalculate uninformative functionality works far better if you cancel while it is in the middle of running, so I think this is also an improvement.

Finally, in another commit just before this, I fixed a stupid error I made in 2017 in one of my first bits of coding for TREvoSIm which slowed the gui updates down by >50%. If I'm being charitable to past me, I could imagine that it was required by the version of Qt I was using at the time, but I suspect it was not. As a result, it turns out the GUI updates were actually a good proportion of the run time! Whilst thinking about this, I also modified the software to the GUI only updates a max of every 5 milliseconds. The result is TREvoSim runs much, much faster, and recalculate uninformative factor should be much quicker now.

As such, if you have more playing with the software to do, I'd recommend a fresh build. Thanks so much for helping me catch this - it was the root cause of a large number of annoying quirks that didn't impact on the functionality of the simulation, but did have a large impact on the user experience!

RussellGarwood commented 5 months ago

Tagging @alanspencer so he can mock me :p