Closing host while the interface is open

[ghost]

At the moment, if the interface is open and you close the host, the interface will remain open but it will lose the connection with the host. I think that in those situations, we should either close the interface or provide some kind of feedback to the user so he can hook up the interface with other currently active hosts.

[mottosso]

Well spotted, this is certainly something we'll need to solve.

I can see three methods;

1. If Parent window to host #1 is successful, the Window will close together with the host
2. Polling; once a second ask host "are you still there?", and if not, close the GUI.
3. Upon a focus-event (i.e. when switching to the GUI), ask host "are you still there?", and if not, tell user about the lack of a host.

Any other ideas?

[ghost]

Option 1 is the ideal one.

If that was not possible, I'd go for option 2. Purely because it feels weird having to select a window to make it it realize that it should close itself. (from a user point of view that is)

[mottosso]

This might work:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4789837/how-to-terminate-a-python-subprocess-launched-with-shell-true

[mottosso]

This has been implemented in the integration.

[mottosso]

Fully implemented in Pyblish QML as of 0.2.6; if psutil is installed, it will kick in automatically.

$ pip install psutil