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Rolf Keitel <[email protected]> · Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:59:43 -0700

We at TRIUMF would certainly be interested. At the last ICALEPCS/EPICS
meeting I had some discussions with Ray Juras from ORNL and volunteered
even some time for this. Unfortunately our workload here swept all good
intentions away. Not having had _any_ time to look at edm and its data
file format, it is a bit preposterous to suggest anything. I wonder,
however, if an XML based input format could be added to edm (eventually
maybe pushing out the existing format). This would simplify program
driven screen generation, and conversion tools would convert to the XML
format.
Any interest in discussing this at the EPICS meeting in Berlin?

- rolf -

Andy Foster wrote:
> 
> Hi Ron, Xuedong,
> 
> I wonder how many other sites would be interested in a tool
> to convert "adl" files from EDD to EDM? Are many sites considering
> upgrading to this new display manager? I would certainly be
> interested...
> 
> It's difficult to get a feel for how many sites use:
> 
> edd/dm
> medm
> edm - I guess at the moment, this is mainly the SNS project?
> 
> We've always used "edd/dm" but feel perhaps it's time to move on.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Chestnut, Ronald P. wrote:
> 
> > Xuedong,
> >
> > I know of no direct DM(EDD) to EDM conversion. There is some work going on for a MEDM(or DM2K) to EDM conversion.
> >
> > However, if you create a report from EDD, you get a .ADL file. If you load that .ADL file into MEDM (or DM2K), many items actually are recognized. The colors are wrong, but simple comparison of native MEDM to the EDD .ADL file show you how to fix them. There may even be a passable DM to MEDM converter which does more.
> >
> > So if you can get from DM to MEDM, there is a hope to get to EDM in the future.
> >
> > Since all these files are "XDL"-like, with keywords and clauses and such, perhaps a clever soul could use some XDL parser and come up with a great solution.
> >
> > /Ron Chestnut
> >
> > "The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
> > -David Friedman
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chai, Xuedong
> > Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 2:51 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject:
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> > Is there any easy way to convert a .dl file which is known by EDD , to
> > a .edl file which is the input file of EDM?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Xuedong
> >
> >
> >
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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