Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Rolf Keitel <[email protected]> · Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:30:54 -0700

Are these changes synchronized with Deb or are we going down the MEDM
path with mushrooming versions?
				- rolf -

Kenneth Kang wrote:
> 
> DM (opi) was enhanced to allow users to look at EPICS channel parameters
> like the alarm limits.  Using the middle mouse button, DM allowed the user
> to determine the channel name controlling the display object.  I've added
> another button which takes that channel name and passes it as a
> macro/template (C=[channel name]) to another .dl screen.  A default dl
> screen name is hard-coded into motifChanName.c, and the environment
> variable EPICS_DL_CH_FILE can specify an alternate file.
> 
> BaBar is using the ability to call another .dl screen with the channel to
> examine a CA record's alarm limits and why there is an alarm.  We also
> have an expert level screen which allows changes to the alarm levels (at
> least until the IOC is rebooted.)
> 
> Kenneth Kang
> 
> A discussion of the internals and links to the code changes:
> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~ksykang/summer1999.shtml#m-m-c

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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