I have a GUI to control and analyse the data from the simulation and it's parameters which uses shared memory to manage the state of the simulation and pass the data to the recipients.
It seemed like a good idea to have a simulation restart button to normalise the start position and eventually have more than a single independent simulation. This would require the simulation to run independently of the GUI which up to this point it did not. To implement this I tried running the simulation code in a separate thread having forgotten that Nest is not tread safe and it crashed. The simulation code including Nest currently runs in multiple processes.
Before attempting to do it myself i asked CoPilot to produce the code attached which I do not understand in detail but this is normal because it uses python features of which I have no knowledge. Up to now. The code runs apart from some 'hopefully simple' details of the button control lost in this conversion
Is this application of interest? Is there a standard way to do this?
Hi Peter, thanks for sending in your idea. Unfortunately the code you send is not valid Python code and there seems to be no contact point with NEST simulator, so there is little we could do better than pointing to generic resources on the web that any decent search engine can find.
However, you may be interested to know that there already is a GUI for NEST called "NEST Desktop" → see https://nest-desktop.readthedocs.io It is even available in as an installation-free service to try out online at https://nest-desktop.apps.ebrains.eu/ for free. This code has matured over the past five years and I would think it to be difficult to reach the same stability and experience with a rewrite from scratch.
Best Dennis
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Peter Mason