Default Settings.xml

[Owen Arnold]

Settings.xml file should be shipped by default and pre-filled with the windows path. This will mean that it just works on windows, but also it will still be possible for non-windows users to modify the settings.xml file as they used to.

We now also have agreement that we can now use the ICAT login and search functionality within this user interface. This will mean we can kill off a lot of the journal xml parsing code that is bloating this user interface.

[Jay Rainey]

(In #8755) When I try to run the GUI I get another (different) error, which is:

ImportError: No module named settings
  at line 6 in '<Interface>'
  caused by line 5 in '~/dev/testing/Code/Mantid/scripts/Interface/ui/reflectometer/refl_gui.py'
  caused by line 10 in '~/dev/testing/Code/Mantid/scripts/Interface/ui/reflectometer/refl_save.py'

I believe this is is to do with the change introduced ​here. The GUI ran correctly when I changed the import statement from:

from settings import MissingSettings, Settings

to

from isis_reflectometry.settings import *

[Owen Arnold]

refs #8765. Added the settings file.

Changeset: 21a7221b3e5659ad61a743868964706952c8f67e

[Owen Arnold]

Tester.

Tests on Windows

• Take a windows installer off develop
• Install it and start it up.
• Open the isis reflectometry gui
• Type in 1320341 into the rb search box. Hit search
• After a few seconds the list on the LHS should be populated

Tests on other Platforms (after testing above)

• Try doing the same as above, should get log message about the DataMountPoint location
• Edit the settings.xml file now shipped with MantidPlot. The DataMountPoint should be set to a local mount of the isis inst$ directory.
• Restart the isis Reflectometry gui
• Run through the steps above and it should work as above.

Run through the normal Reflectometry GUI tests (ask Keith for help if needed) http://www.mantidproject.org/Using_ISIS_Reflectometry_GUI#Testing

[Owen Arnold]

refs #8765. Need settings file in correct location.

Changeset: b15ddfc3c36b9c23a2aebd25e1fcd28b3bcbd090

[Owen Arnold]

refs #8765. Bad xml issue resolved.

Changeset: 44af2bd6a6ba57b2e5fb766e016243a553f480f5

[Owen Arnold]

Waiting on #8755 to pass testing as will need to rebase these changes ontop of master before closing.

[Owen Arnold]

refs #8765. Added the settings file.

Changeset: 62dc40e1be64e3268e8232229b086eb3a5926e3f

[Owen Arnold]

refs #8765. Need settings file in correct location.

Changeset: ed81a2f20c6dcd6842d57fb0409521769a0845cc

[Owen Arnold]

refs #8765. Bad xml issue resolved.

Changeset: 9677e9aef5d48f7f1fd353a8ac8b4636472dab51

[Keith Brown]

Linking 7377 to this ticket

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​9609