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Ernest et al....

We at the UW Medical Center would be very interested in hearing more about the possibility of using QT for an Epics user interface.  We are starting to think about our next project using EPICS, and we are concerned that EDM will not meet all of our needs.

Dave Reid
University of Washington Medical Center

On Thu, 23 Feb 2012, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

Hi,

I am carving out space for a QT Collaboration Workshop/Kickoff at the next EPICS meeting being held at SLAC.

This will be a great opportunity to discuss ideas and try to forge a community collaboration.

I have both Monday and/or Tuesday (April 23, 24) open for a workshop.

Please email me directly if you are interested.
email: [email protected]

I will need a head count to plan for space.

PS: I am also hoping that John Sinclair will share what experiences he had in starting a port of EDM to Qt.

I believe Zen Szalata gave it a drive "around the block" in the past. :)


Cheers,
Ernest



Matt Newville wrote:

Hi Emmanuel,

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]> wrote:

Ian,

It seems they are more and more people using Qt.... Great!
We use pyqt here. Would love to be part of a collaboration to develop
more...
Do you have a pointer to your pyqt interface to epics?

Regards,
--
Emmanuel

Sorry to jump into this tangent of the Qt conversation.  I have very
little experience with Qt, but a simple probe-like application (see
below) to connect Qt with Epics through python is remarkably simple.
I'd be happy to add  "epics-aware" Qt widgets to pyepics, but don't
know enough Qt to do this myself.

--Matt Newville

This is using pyside, tested on Windows only.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import epics
import sys

from PySide.QtGui import QWidget, QLabel, QLineEdit, QGridLayout, QApplication

class PVProbe(QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QWidget.__init__(self, parent)

        name_label  = QLabel("PV Name:")
        self.pvname = QLineEdit()
        value_label = QLabel("PV Value:")
        self.value  = QLabel("    ")

        self.pvname.returnPressed.connect(self.onPVNameReturn)
        self.pv = None

        grid = QGridLayout()
        grid.addWidget(name_label,   0, 0)
        grid.addWidget(self.pvname,  0, 1)
        grid.addWidget(value_label,  1, 0)
        grid.addWidget(self.value,   1, 1)

        self.setLayout(grid)
        self.setWindowTitle("PySide PV Probe:")

    def onPVNameReturn(self):
        self.pv = epics.PV(self.pvname.text(), callback=self.onPVChange)

    def onPVChange(self, pvname=None, char_value=None, **kws):
        self.value.setText(char_value)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = QApplication(sys.argv)
    probe = PVProbe()
    probe.show()
    sys.exit(app.exec_())

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