Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

We are currently in the process of writing a GUI Style Guide for our
EDM screens and were wondering if any one else already has such a
document.
I'm sure there are many lessons that people have learnt about the best
way to build good, useable interfaces with EDM and any documents or even
anecdotes about what to do or not to do would be greatly appreciated.

We don't have a style guide, but many of the (MEDM) displays in synApps
tend systematically to use the following color meanings:

foregnd    backgnd    meaning
color      color
-------------------------------------------------
black      any        static text or drawing

blue       any        writes to or reads from ioc
black      sky blue   (button, text entry, etc.)

red        any        exceptional status or action
yellow     red        (button)

black      pink       link minus "NPP NMS" attributes
                      (i.e., a string field whose value specifies a PV
                       to be linked to; the database will supply the
                       link attributes and write to the actual link)

--
Tim Mooney ([email protected]; 630-252-5417)
Advanced Photon Source
APS Operations Division
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group

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