[FEATURE]: Wait till action is completed

[ShalokShalom]

What is the feature?

Introduce a tape command, that waits till an animation is done.

Why do you want this?

The amount of time till an animation is finished, and till a state is changed, is probably different between machines. That means, using sleep alone is inconsistent. That transfers to portable development environments, which are now not reproducible anymore (maybe)

Proposed Solution

Adding a methodology to read when a state is changed and when a certain animation is done.

Implement that as a dedicated command for the tapes, or simply implement it for every command implicitly.

Alternatives Considered

No response

Impact

People will not have to care about that anymore.

[Gaurav-Gosain]

Solid suggestion, I was considering just turning off animations (which can be a config option in itself anyways just for normal tuios use too) which would automatically make tapes more deterministic. Tracking the animations might be architecturally more difficult but is also a viable solution 🤔 Also unreleated but I already have a stub in the codebase currently to implement a "WaitUntilRegexOutput" or something along those lines which would let you basically keep diffing the pty output and arbitrarily wait until the output matches some pattern.

[ShalokShalom]

Would it make sense to pause the animations just on tapes by default?

They dont need to be turned off for normal use, obviously - and I think it could be a good thing to provide a switch (instead of sleep) that disables them when used with tapes.

I think that should be the default setting, and it would be sufficient for 90% of the use cases with comparatively less effort.