#948 Automatically disable/re-enable monitoring within subsequent download

[T. Ellinger]

Note: This feature request is a split-off from issue [#946]

Description

Due to limitations of forte, it is not allowed to perform monitoring and (subsequent) download of an application simultaneously.

So when user updates and downloads applications to forte he must ensure, that monitoring is deactivated before download action is triggered which is error prone.

Improvement idea

There may be a possible improvement for IDE to avoid this issue:

• Before download is performed, IDE could check if monitoring is currently active and stops monitoring first.
• Then it performs download to FORTE as usual.
• After that, IDE may remember that monitoring was active prior the download and therefore activates monitoring again (see attachment)

Alois Zoitl already had a look and gave some thoughts on this:

Your solution for handling it in the IDE is definitely the best approach. However currently the deployment and the monitoring are coming from two different completely decoupled plug-ins. Therefore the obht don't know from each other. I think we need to think a little bit more how to solve this without introducing to much dependencies. Also it would be good if both plugins would use the same code for interacting with the devices, which is currently also not the case.

[Zoitl Alois]

With 4diac IDE 1.10.0 this is now fixed.