Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]> · Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:24:43 -0400

Hi:

> 1. The Data Browser Widget does not have the same functionality as the Data
> Browser tab.  e.g. The latter can show the properties panel and Inspect
> Samples at runtime.  Is it possible for the Widget to have the same
> functionality as the tab?
Maybe not. The idea was that if you want the full functionality,
you can open the real thing as you mention in step 2.

> 2. As a workaround for #1 I tried opening the Data Browser in a new tab from
> right clicking on the Data Browser widget.  All the PVs are shown in the new
> tab but macro replacement is not done.
The macro replacement works for the *.plt file name, but as you noted not
for the PVs. I'll fix that.

> 3. At runtime if I right click on a PV and select Process Variable -> Data
> Browser a new Data Browser tab is opened each time.  It would be good if I
> could add a PV to an existing Data Browser tab from the PV's context menu.
When sending a PV to a D.B. via the context menu, I find it hard to
determine which of the existing ones you meant to use as a target.

>From many places that support drag & drop you can drag a PV into an existing
data browser:
Drag PV from outside of CSS,
drag PV from archive search view, etc.

So use drag & drop. If the place you want to drag _from_ doesn't support
drag and drop, that would be the thing to look at for a possible future
extension.

> 4.It would be nice if there was an option to dynamically resize the Data
> Browser widget at runtime (the Data Browser tab already does this).  I thought
> I could do it with some Javascript but I would need a way to get the current
> window's width.  display.getPropertyValue("width"); will just return the
> initial width set in the properties at edit time.  I would also need some way
> of triggering the javascript on a display size change.  Anyone know if that is
> possible in BOY?
I don't understand what you want to do.

Thanks,
Kay

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System