Command line to open CoolTerm instance connected?

[jmuhammad]

Greetings,
The script was working fine but this morning I got the following error:

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 COM4 (AQ043AA4)
 COM9 (S/N not available)
COM13 (S/N not available)
 1000 (Exit)

Select available COM number from list (e.g. 1-256) or '1000' to exit: 4
CoolTerm is already running...
ERROR: Could not connect to CoolTerm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "H:\Python\_PyProjects\usbser2ct\usbser2ct.pyw", line 234, in <module>
    ID1 = s.LoadSetting(template_settings_file)  # myapp.cooltermsettings
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "H:\Python\_PyProjects\usbser2ct\CoolTerm.py", line 345, in LoadSetting
    Response = self._SendPacket(Packet)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "H:\Python\_PyProjects\usbser2ct\CoolTerm.py", line 278, in _SendPacket
    self.skt.sendall(Packet)
OSError: [WinError 10057] A request to send or receive data was disallowed because the socket is not connected and (when sending on a datagram socket using a sendto call) no address was supplied

Do you think it is a matter of retrying to connect socket / waiting for confirmation that socket is connected? Admittedly I did not add 'retries' to this hurriedly assembled script (I had in previous version) but before I try I wanted a little more info on the error message. Also is there a 'smart' way to confirm socket is connected or is it just 'try..except' s=CoolTerm.CoolTermSocket() a number of times?
TIA.
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Edit 20260111-1530
OK, I got confirmation that the socket is connected but I got similar error:

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 COM4 (AQ043AA4)
 COM9 (S/N not available)
COM13 (S/N not available)
 1000 (Exit)

Select available COM number from list (e.g. 1-256) or '1000' to exit: 4
CoolTerm is already running...
ERROR: Could not connect to CoolTerm
  2)  Creating Socket...
ERROR: Could not connect to CoolTerm
      CoolTermSocket('127.0.0.1',51413) connected.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "H:\Python\_PyProjects\usbser2ct\usbser2ct.pyw", line 281, in <module>
    ID1 = s.LoadSetting(template_settings_file)  # myapp.cooltermsettings
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "H:\Python\_PyProjects\usbser2ct\CoolTerm.py", line 345, in LoadSetting
    Response = self._SendPacket(Packet)
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "H:\Python\_PyProjects\usbser2ct\CoolTerm.py", line 278, in _SendPacket
    self.skt.sendall(Packet)
OSError: [WinError 10057] A request to send or receive data was disallowed because the socket is not connected and (when sending on a datagram socket using a sendto call) no address was supplied

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Edit 20260111-1609
The only way to get the script working again was to shut down and restart CoolTerm. Then the script worked again. But:
a) What is the issue and why did the issue occur?
b) Is this only way to fix (manually restart)?

[roger]

I haven't had any issues with the remote socket spontaneously disconnecting, so I don't know what may have happened in your case.

You can use the "Ping" command to check if you're connected. It returns true if you're connected and false if not.

[jmuhammad]

I think what happened is that if the GUI is not fully up before creating the socket the IDE generates these [unhelpful] errors.
So I have had to put a 10s delay before creating the socket. At least on my machine.
To test just try to start CoolTerm then immediately create/connect a socket...those errors will get produced.
Without feedback as to when the socket can be created/connected a hard-coded delay has to be used. If I make it too small then sometimes it will work and sometimes it won't. Seems 10s is safe.
If you have any thoughts on this please advise, thanks.
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Edit 20260111-2300
The timers say GUI Detection took 12.4949 seconds to be 'ready' (although I physically saw the GUI maybe 1-2 seconds earlier).
But I believe that if you try to create/connect a socket before the application is 'ready' it will produce errors. Knowing when it is 'ready' requires some kind of monitoring. I am trying a dlg.wait('ready', timeout=timeout) function and it seems to block the create/connect a socket until CoolTerm is ready in lieu of hard-coding time.sleep() delays.
I use time.sleep(1) for additional instances and they complete in less than 1 second.