Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Pete R. Jemian" <[email protected]> · Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:31:29 -0500


You think this is the only way to get a full path name in the icon title?
Look again.
We open "related displays" exclusively and get the full path name
when the screen is iconified.  These long icon names have
been observed for more than 5 years of MEDM versions.
Note that MEDM is the _only_ X window application I use
that seems to have the full path names in the iconified state..
Also note that this behavior is observed with both X-Win32
(http://www.starnet.com) and eXceed (www.hummingbird.com)
X window servers.
Pete Jemian
   UNICAT
At 06:25 PM 27-09-00 -0400, you wrote:
> We use x-terminals (Open-Windows now but CDE soon) to display medm_2.3.4a

> displays. When the operator minimizes the display to an icon, the icon

> label is the .adl file's name, left-justified, including the full

> pathname. So , the icon labels are the same for all medm displays,
showing

> the very top few directories in the path.

>

> Is there a way to right-justify the icon label (xset?) and/or a way to

> specify the icon label's text (medm command line?) ?
This happens when you open a .adl file from the "Open" dialog.  The
"selection" text includes the full path to the file.  If you clear it, and
type in the name of the file you want to open, or select one from the list
and then delete the leading path elements, the icon name will be just the
file name.  Note that this only works if the file you want to open is in
the directory which was the current working directory when MEDM was run.

Ken:
The window title is set using medmSetDisplayTitle(), which strips off the
leading path, while the icon name is just set to displayInfo->dlFile->name,
which includes the full path.
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Brian McAllister                    Controls Programmer/Beam Physicist
[email protected]                        MIT-Bates Linear Accelerator
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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