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[ux] Add multiFLEX dashboard disconnect controls#2981

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Summary

Adds per-client disconnect controls to the multiFLEX dashboard so the operator can gracefully disconnect other logged-in radio clients without leaving the dashboard.

What Changed

  • Added a dedicated action column to the multiFLEX station table with a Disconnect button for every connected client except the current AetherSDR client.
  • Routed dashboard disconnect clicks through MainWindow, keeping connection-specific behavior out of MultiFlexDialog.
  • Reused the existing SmartLink remote-client disconnect path by centralizing SmartLink handle dispatch in sendWanRadioClientDisconnects().
  • Added a shared RadioModel::disconnectClient() / disconnectClientHandlesThen() LAN command path so dashboard disconnects, pre-connect slot eviction, and multiFLEX conflict resolution all use the same client disconnect 0x... sequencing.
  • Gave the dashboard action column and button stable widths so the full Disconnect label fits.

Why

The dashboard already shows connected multiFLEX clients, but disconnecting another client required going through the network connect dialog flow. Operators need the same graceful disconnect capability directly beside each non-current logged-in radio, and it needs to work consistently whether the active connection is local LAN or SmartLink.

Behavior

  • LAN connections send the normal radio client disconnect command for the selected handle.
  • SmartLink connections send the existing application disconnect_users serial=... handle=... request through SmartLinkClient, matching the network connect dialog's remote-client disconnect behavior.
  • The current client never gets a disconnect button and is ignored defensively if requested.
  • The UI disables the clicked button and changes its label while the disconnect request is being sent.

Validation

  • git diff --check
  • cmake --build build -j22
  • Built app deployed to the remote test Mac Desktop with $deploy-aethersdr-test-build, including quarantine xattr clearing.

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Thanks @jensenpat — nice scope on this one. Centralizing the disconnect path through disconnectClientHandlesThen() is a clean refactor, and routing the dashboard click through MainWindow keeps MultiFlexDialog properly decoupled from the LAN/WAN transport split.

A few small things worth a look:

1. Button "Disconnecting" state is lost on the next refresh. MultiFlexDialog::refresh() is wired to both otherClientsChanged and infoChanged, and the radio almost certainly fires one of those within milliseconds of the disconnect command landing. clearContents() + the re-populate loop will replace the disabled "Disconnecting" button with a fresh enabled "Disconnect" button before the target client has actually dropped, so a user could double-click and queue a second disconnect for a handle that's already on its way out. The current disconnectClient() path will no-op on handle == clientHandle() but not on a previously-targeted-but-still-present handle. Consider tracking pending handles in the dialog (e.g. a QSet<quint32> m_pendingDisconnects) and skipping the button or keeping it disabled while the handle is in flight.

2. Subtle behavior change in resolveMultiFlexConflict(). The old code always re-ran peekForMultiFlexConflictThen(continuation) after the disconnect, even when continuation was empty. The new code guards with if (continuation) and skips the peek entirely when the continuation is null. In practice m_multiFlexContinuation should always be set in this flow, but it's worth confirming this — if any caller ever invokes resolveMultiFlexConflict() without setting up a continuation, the re-peek (which was the mechanism for catching additional stale clients) will silently not happen.

3. Minor: the m_pendingClientDisconnects.clear() move is correct. Just noting it — disconnectPendingClientsThen() now clears the member before delegating, which is the right ordering since the inner function re-derives ours and dedupes.

Nothing blocking from my side. Code reads well, RAII/Qt parent ownership is fine, no obvious leaks. The error-handling at the SmartLink boundary correctly surfaces the "not connected" / "no serial" cases through the status panel.


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…in flight

Without tracking pending handles, refresh() — wired to otherClientsChanged
and infoChanged — replaces the just-clicked disabled "Disconnecting"
button with a fresh enabled "Disconnect" within milliseconds of the
command landing on the radio, well before the target client has
actually dropped.  A user could then double-click and queue a
duplicate disconnect for a handle already on its way out.

Track pending handles in a QSet<quint32> on the dialog: insert on
click, drop on refresh-where-handle-absent (the radio has confirmed
the eviction), render the row in the disabled "Disconnecting" state
while present in the set.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merged — thanks @jensenpat! Centralizing the LAN disconnect path through RadioModel::disconnectClientHandlesThen() (now shared between dashboard clicks, pre-connect slot eviction, and multiFLEX conflict resolution) and pulling the SmartLink-vs-LAN transport split into sendWanRadioClientDisconnects() is the right factoring — three sites that used to duplicate the same guard-and-dispatch now share one canonical path. Routing the dashboard click through MainWindow keeps MultiFlexDialog properly transport-agnostic.

Added pending-disconnect tracking on top via a QSet<quint32> m_pendingDisconnects member so the row stays disabled "Disconnecting" across refresh() rebuilds. MultiFlexDialog::refresh() is wired to both otherClientsChanged and infoChanged, either of which fires within milliseconds of the disconnect command landing on the radio — without the tracking, the just-clicked disabled button gets replaced with a fresh enabled one before the target client actually drops, and a user could double-click and queue a duplicate disconnect for a handle already on its way out.

Shipping in the next release.

73,
Jeremy KK7GWY & Claude (AI dev partner)

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## Summary

Adds per-client disconnect controls to the multiFLEX dashboard so the
operator can gracefully disconnect other logged-in radio clients without
leaving the dashboard.

## What Changed

- Added a dedicated action column to the multiFLEX station table with a
`Disconnect` button for every connected client except the current
AetherSDR client.
- Routed dashboard disconnect clicks through `MainWindow`, keeping
connection-specific behavior out of `MultiFlexDialog`.
- Reused the existing SmartLink remote-client disconnect path by
centralizing SmartLink handle dispatch in
`sendWanRadioClientDisconnects()`.
- Added a shared `RadioModel::disconnectClient()` /
`disconnectClientHandlesThen()` LAN command path so dashboard
disconnects, pre-connect slot eviction, and multiFLEX conflict
resolution all use the same `client disconnect 0x...` sequencing.
- Gave the dashboard action column and button stable widths so the full
`Disconnect` label fits.

## Why

The dashboard already shows connected multiFLEX clients, but
disconnecting another client required going through the network connect
dialog flow. Operators need the same graceful disconnect capability
directly beside each non-current logged-in radio, and it needs to work
consistently whether the active connection is local LAN or SmartLink.

## Behavior

- LAN connections send the normal radio `client disconnect` command for
the selected handle.
- SmartLink connections send the existing `application disconnect_users
serial=... handle=...` request through `SmartLinkClient`, matching the
network connect dialog's remote-client disconnect behavior.
- The current client never gets a disconnect button and is ignored
defensively if requested.
- The UI disables the clicked button and changes its label while the
disconnect request is being sent.

## Validation

- `git diff --check`
- `cmake --build build -j22`
- Built app deployed to the remote test Mac Desktop with
`$deploy-aethersdr-test-build`, including quarantine xattr clearing.

👨🏼‍💻 Generated with OpenAI Codex (GPT-5.5 Pro 4/23) and tested by
@jensenpat

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Jeremy Fielder <kk7gwy@aethersdr.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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