Connecting to PSCAD using an external client

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Hello,

When trying to run the PSCAD script i tried to use an external client. I ran into 2 issues using this method. The first is that the requirements.txt file was missing mhi-pscad so i needed to run: "pip install mhi-pscad". The second problem is that the connection function did not work when trying to attach to PSCAD. One time it even connected to a coworkers PSCAD client as we are working with PSCAD on a server. The solution to those problems was using the function shown below. In that function the tkinter and path part can be changed to the workspace path being included in the configuration file.

def connectPSCAD_LE() -> mhi.pscad.PSCAD:
    """
    

    Returns
    -------
    pscad : Application
        Returns a link to the opened PSCAD workspace, and runs the MTB using that workspace.
        
        It does that by using the first available license
    """
    root = tkinter.Tk() 
    root.withdraw()
    root.wm_attributes('-topmost', 1)
    WorkspacePath = filedialog.askopenfilename()
    pscad = mhi.pscad.launch()
    dict_certificates = pscad.get_available_certificates()
    available_certificates : list(tuple) = [x for x in dict_certificates.items() if "1/1" in str(x)] 
    pscad.get_certificate(available_certificates[0][1]) # First available license
    pscad.load(WorkspacePath)
    return pscad