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Subject: Re: EDM Command Options Question
From: John Dobbins <[email protected]>
To: john sinclair <[email protected]>, EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Cc: "Ernest L. Williams Jr." <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 12:10:04 -0400
John,

Apologies. I spoke too soon. It turn out that if I sit at the console I get the correct focus behavior. This is with Scientific Linux 3 or 4. Exceed also works for remote access. For me the problem appears to be limited to using CYGWIN for remote access. Thanks.

John Dobbins

john sinclair wrote:
John,

edm -open should probably popup an existing screen - I'll add this to my list of things to consider.

If you launch edm as

edm -ctl orib36:screenpv

where screenpv is an epics string pv, then whenever a filename is written to that pv, edm will attempt to open the file. If it is already open, edm pops it to the top. Might this work for you?

John Sinclair

On Thursday 04 May 2006 2:55 pm, you wrote:
Dear All,

Note: I am new to both Alarm Handler and EDM.

I am trying to understand the command options for EDM. I would like to make
Alarm Handler open appropriate EDM screens. Alarm Handler provides for
adding a button which will issue a command to the shell. However if I make
that command something like

edm_startup.sh my_screen.edl

Then each time one of the buttons is pushed you get a new instance of EDM
with its own little square top level window.

However if the first instance of EDM is launched with the -server option:

edm -server -display $DISPLAY -x &

Then I can issue subsequent commands in the form:

edm -display $DISPLAY -open my_screen.edl &

which will either

1) open the screen if it is not already open, without starting a new
instance of EDM

2) do nothing if the screen is already open

The problem is that if the screen is already open it is not raised to the
front in which case the Alarm Handler button appears to do nothing instead
of directing your attention to the intended screen.

Is there another way to go about this? Thanks.

John Dobbins
Lab for Elementary Particle Physics
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY



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