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Pause button for evaluation shell? #489575 08/05/26 13:42 08/05/26 13:42
Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,829 Chicago AndrewAMD OP Serious User
AndrewAMD OP Serious User Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,829 Chicago	I've been running thousands of evaluation shell jobs on my PC. Unfortunately I use this PC for other high-demand purposes, so a new feature comes to mind: "Pause" button on the panel will have the shell pause between jobs. Press "unpause" to resume. Actually, I would write the feature myself, but I don't know if the shell is being revised at the moment. www.vitaltrades.com - andrew@vitaltrades.com - YouTube channel

Re: Pause button for evaluation shell? [Re: AndrewAMD] #489578 08/06/26 05:33 08/06/26 05:33
Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,829 Chicago AndrewAMD OP Serious User
AndrewAMD OP Serious User Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,829 Chicago	UPDATE: I was going to propose a code update to eval.c, but the click() function wasn’t working after Job #2 begins. I might need to file a bug report with support. www.vitaltrades.com - andrew@vitaltrades.com - YouTube channel

Re: Pause button for evaluation shell? [Re: AndrewAMD] #489581 08/07/26 11:43 08/07/26 11:43
Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 28,132 Frankfurt jcl Chief Engineer
jcl Chief Engineer Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 28,132 Frankfurt	The click function is working, but has no effect during the process. However, a Pause button makes sense. We will probably add this function to the Stop button, in a similar way as in Trade mode.

Re: Pause button for evaluation shell? [Re: AndrewAMD] #489600 08/13/26 17:16 08/13/26 17:16
Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,829 Chicago AndrewAMD OP Serious User
AndrewAMD OP Serious User Joined: Feb 2017 Posts: 1,829 Chicago	Here's my temporary workaround, which I injected into my copy of eval.c: Code #define PAUSE_RESUME ".\\_pause_.txt" #ifdef PAUSE_RESUME void pauseLoop() { if (Live)return; if (!file_length(PAUSE_RESUME)) return; print(TO_ANY, "\nJobs are PAUSED."); while (wait(0) && file_length(PAUSE_RESUME)) { if (msg("Resume Jobs?")) { file_delete(PAUSE_RESUME); break; }; } print(TO_ANY, "\nJobs have RESUMED."); } #endif DLLFUNC void evaluate() { #ifdef PAUSE_RESUME pauseLoop(); #endif To pause, all I need to do is to make a file "_pause_.txt" in the Zorro folder with a nonzero number of characters in the body. www.vitaltrades.com - andrew@vitaltrades.com - YouTube channel

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