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Subject: User-defined menus for dm
From: Len Lawrence <[email protected]>
To: tech-talk EPICS <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 08:52:37 +0000 (GMT)

Is there any way to add user-defined menus to a dm window?

What we would like to do is display menus in an EPICS interface.  Later on
we shall be using Tcl/Tk for user interfaces but for the time being we need
to develop a simple engineering interface for cryostat control.  Very often
there is a set of choices, which we have been selecting by typing names or
values into a text entry field.  We would much prefer to present the engineer
with a fixed set of options in many cases, via a menu of some kind.  The names
of the options and any associated values are supplied from a file read down 
from the host, so it would be nice to set up the menu dynamically, i.e. at
runtime.

In edd/dm it is easy enough to connect to a record field which already has
multiple choices built in, by using a choice or menu button.  The question is,
is there any way to adapt this for user defined lists?

TIA,

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