Megatest

(define (dboard:add-external-tab commondat view-name views-cfgdat tabs tab-num)
  (let* ((success #t) ;; at any stage of the process set this flag to #f to skip downstream steps. Intention here is to recover gracefully if user provided tabs fail to load.
	 (source  (configf:lookup views-cfgdat view-name "source"))
	 (viewgen (configf:lookup views-cfgdat view-name "viewgen"))
	 (updater (configf:lookup views-cfgdat view-name "updater"))
	 (result-child #f))
    (if (and (common:file-exists? source)
	     (file-read-access? source))
	(handle-exceptions
	 exn
	 (begin
	   (print-call-chain)
	   (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* " message: " ((condition-property-accessor 'exn 'message) exn))
	   (debug:print 0 *default-log-port* "ERROR: failed to load " source ", try loading in the repl: megatest -repl")

   (common:max (map (lambda (filen)
		      (file-modification-time filen))
		    (glob (conc dbdir "/*.db*"))))))

(define (dashboard:monitor-changed? commondat tabdat)
  (let* ((run-update-time (current-seconds))
	 (monitor-db-path (dboard:tabdat-monitor-db-path tabdat))
	 (monitor-modtime (if (and monitor-db-path (common:file-exists? monitor-db-path))
			      (file-modification-time monitor-db-path)
			      -1)))
    (if (and (eq? (dboard:commondat-curr-tab-num commondat) 0)
	     (or (> monitor-modtime *last-monitor-update-time*)
		 (> (- run-update-time *last-monitor-update-time*) 5))) ;; update every 1/2 minute just in case
	(begin
	  (set! *last-monitor-update-time* run-update-time) ;; monitor-modtime)

;;======================================================================
;; The heavy lifting starts here
;;======================================================================

(define (main)
  (let ((mtdb-path (conc *toppath* "/megatest.db"))) ;; 
    (if (and (common:file-exists? mtdb-path)
	     (file-write-access? mtdb-path))
	(if (not (args:get-arg "-skip-version-check"))
            (common:exit-on-version-changed)))
    (let* ((commondat       (dboard:commondat-make)))
      ;; Move this stuff to db.scm? I'm not sure that is the right thing to do...
      (cond 
       ((args:get-arg "-test") ;; run-id,test-id

				) "update buttons once"))
	    (th2 (make-thread iup:main-loop "Main loop")))
	(thread-start! th2)
	(thread-join! th2)))))

;; ease debugging by loading ~/.dashboardrc
(let ((debugcontrolf (conc (get-environment-variable "HOME") "/.dashboardrc")))
  (if (common:file-exists? debugcontrolf)
      (load debugcontrolf)))

(if (args:get-arg "-repl")
    (repl)
    (main))