Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Matthieu Bec <[email protected]> · Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:58:27 -0400

Hi Emmanuel,

Here at Gemini we started to use GTK+ using pygtk and our home-brewed

python-ca extension. For gui builders, we picked glade - but there's a

lot of options (gaspacho, etc).

The experience has been very positive: little coding will get you some

really nice interfaces. In particular all aspects related to fonts are

handled by Gnome. The resulting UIs really belong among the other apps

on your desktop (they follow the desktop theme you select, etc).

You get a lot of flexibility thanks to many other python bindings.

One thing to watch is how all that scales up: the footprint on resources

is certainly not as good as edm/etc. So there's a compromise.

Matthieu

Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:

Hello again,

I am trying to develop GUIs for a small epics control system (end-user
station). I am familiar with edm, medm, but am looking for something
which is more recent and slick.

Those days Channel Access have been developed for several 3rd party
programs (python, perl, matlab among others). Do those languages offer
easy GUI-design interface? In the case of python/tk or perl/tk, I have

never seen a drag-and-drop GUI builder.

It exists for matlab. But here the issue is licensing.

What about Qt? python/Qt and such?

What is the status of the java-based epics office?
How difficult/easy is it to develop GUIs?

Anything else I should be considering?

Is anyone using IN PRODUCTION something else than epics/(m)edm?
What about compiled GUI in matlab?

Thank you for your insight,
--
Emmanuel

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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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