Better Tools

[sholloway]

I'd like to improve the quality of creating a simulation.

Mousing Around

• [x] Open diagnostic tool windows from a menu click. Have the layout of the multiple windows be automatically applied so I don't have to manually do it every time.
• [x] Real-time graph of utilization.
• [x] Ability to click on entities when the sim is paused and have a menu of actions.
• [x] Toggle the app into full screen mode. (See the DearPyGUI demo for an example.)
• [x] Tree navigator of the Context/Scene.
• [ ] The ability to display both the pixel and cell coordinates of the mouse in real-time would be nice. Even nicer would being able to click and have it put one or the other in the clipboard so I don't have to futz around so much with typing coordinates.
• [ ] Set the target FPS speed to enable running a sim at a slower speed for debugging.
• [ ] Visualization of what's in the various schedulers.
• [ ] Show the available named colors.
• [ ] DearPyGUI has loading indicators. That might be appropriate for while the initial phases of the simulation (loading scene, running pre-sim tasks).
• [x] Quake Style Dev Console for issuing commands.
• [ ] Bar graph of task vs render utilization

[sholloway]

I've implemented a pass of collecting metics and displaying them in a toggle-able panel. Using psutil to get hardware information. This is currently less than ideal. Some of the hardware polls can be unpredictable in how long they take. Especially _psutil.cpupercent.

A thought is to have a dedicated sub-process for taking the samples. This would enable having the samples collected and in the case of slow downs not impact the actual main thread.

Implementation Thoughts/Options

1. Leverage the multiprocessing module for spawning a child process that hangs out and measures the performance of the simulation process on a loop. This approach could use pickle to notify the main process and send the measurements.
2. Leverage the Ray 3rd party module for doing the same thing.
3. Leverage Charm4Py.