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Subject: Re: epics GUIs (update)
From: Tom Pelaia <[email protected]>
To: Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]>
Cc: epics <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:55:49 -0400
Hi,

If you are familiar and comfortable writing HTML then I recommend CAML (version 2) which was just completed. I haven't prepared my website (http://www.ornl.gov/~t6p/Main/CAML.html ) for the latest version, yet, but you can download the latest version directly from Cosylab. CAML defines a channel access namespace for XML controls which you can embed within an XHTML document (mix HTML with CAML). You layout your controls within HTML. CAML has a rich set of configurable controls (charts, text fields, meter, wheel switch and more), and you can customize the styles using a standard Cascading Style Sheet. Plus you can perform arbitrary math operations using JavaScript. CAML and the WebCA plugin runs on standards based web browsers (e.g. Firefox, Safari) for Linux, Mac and Windows.

You can download the plugin from:
http://webca.cosylab.com/downloads.html

You can download the CAML infrastructure from:
http://users.cosylab.com/~msekoranja/webca/

Another option is XAL:
http://www.ornl.gov/~t6p/Main/XAL.html

XAL uses Java Channel Access to communicate with EPICS Channel Access and it includes both a GUI builder and application framework. We use XAL at SNS to build physics applications, but you can use it to build just almost any kind of application you want.

best regards,
tom


On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:19 PM, 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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