Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

John Sinclair <[email protected]> · Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:01:11 -0400

Zen,

You can get a file chooser with the text control widget. The incantation

is in the online doc as

  Editable + keypad + file + pv type = string: edit with file select box

With these options you also set "default dir" and "pattern" to something

like "./" and "*.txt" respectively.

You also choose the form of the returned string which may be "full

path", "name & ext", or "name only".

Szalata, Zenon M. wrote:

 I have written a soft IOC which reads data from a disk file and places values read into EPICS records.  A few EDM screens are used to display the data...
All of this works fine.
There a number of disk files to choose from.
I have implemented a simple way to specify the file name using a waveform record and a text control.  This scheme is very difficult to use.

I think that EDM does not provide a file name chooser dialog.  Is that true?
If so, has anyone implemented some EDM widget which could be used to choose a file name from existing files on a disk drive?

Thanks in advance,
Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System