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Hi Xinyu,

I guess you are asking about open BOY OPI files from command line. For that, you can input macros to the OPI files like this:

Input Macros from command line

When you startup css from command line, you can specify the OPI files you want to run and their macros input:

It also allows embedding [\ascii-code] in macros when inputting macros from command line. For example:

In above example, the value of macro1 is A:B.

If there is already a CSS instance running, it will open the OPIs in the running CSS. The option --launcher.openFile is not necessary if following lines were added to css.ini:

Note1: For Linux GTK, ":" is not allowed in macros. Instead using [\58].
Note2: To make this command line work for Linux machine, you may need to add follow lines to your css.ini which is under your CSS directory (this line should be added before -vmargs):

You may able to find the path to libjvm.so by using command locate libjvm.so See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=331122

Thanks,
Xihui

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Kasemir, Kay [mailto:[email protected]]

> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:07 AM

> To: [email protected]; [email protected]

> Subject: Re: Setting macro value from commandline

>

> Hi:

>

> You can set macros at these levels:

>

> 1.BOY Runtime Preference Setting (-pluginCustomization ...)

> 2.User Preference settings (Menu Edit, Preferences, CSS Applications,

> Display, BOY, OPI Runtime)

> 3.Macro parameter of Action that opens the *.opi file

> 4.Display *.opi file property "Macros"

> 5.Grouping/Linking/Tabbed Container that wraps the widgets

>

>

> Setting a macro within an Action overrides settings from

> the user preferences.

> Setting them within the Grouping container overrides

> those from the Action and so on.

>

>

> The first option is basically the command line:

>

> You can define any setting for CSS in a plugin customization file

> that has the format

>

> # Comment

> plugin.name/setting_name=value

>

> For example:

>

> # BOY Macros, format

> # macro1,value1|macro2,"value 2"|macro3,"another value"

> org.csstudio.opibuilder/macros=MyMacro1,"value 1"|MyOtherMacro,"Another

> Value"

>

>

> # EPICS Settings

> org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics/addr_list=127.0.0.1 123.45.67.89

>

>

>

> The format of the settings available for BOY

> are in the file org.csstudio.opibuilder/preferences.ini.

> The format of the settings available for EPICS Channel Access

> are in the file org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics/preferences.ini.

> The format of the settings for plugin ABC

> should be in a file ABC//preferences.ini.

>

>

>

>

> You put all those defaults that you want into a file

> my_plugin_customization.ini

> and then start CSS with the command-line option

>

>    css -pluginCustomization /path/to/my_plugin_customization.ini

>

> See also chapter "Hierarchical Preferences"

> in http://cs-studio.sourceforge.net/docbook/css_book.pdf

>

> Thanks,

> -Kay

>

>

> On 2/26/12 17:31 , "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:

> >Sorry, I mean how do you set macro values from the command line for

> BOY.

> >(I'm new to EPICS and BOY. )

> >

> >Thanks

> >

> >Xinyu

> >

> >On 27/02/2012, at 4:22 AM, Eric Norum wrote:

> >

> >> When starting a soft IOC you can set the value of iocsh variables

> from

> >>shell environment variables using the epicsEnvSet iocsh command like

> >>this:

> >>

> >> epicsEnvSet(KEITHLEY2400_ETHERNET,

> >>"$(KEITHLEY2400_ETHERNET=164.54.49.10:4001)")

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >> So, if you start the IOC like this:

> >> ./st.cmd

> >> the iocsh KEITHLEY2400_ETHERNET variable will be set to

> >>164.54.49.10:4001

> >>

> >> but if you start the IOC like this:

> >> KEITHLEY2400_ETHERNET=192.168.1.2 ./st.cmd

> >> the  iocsh KEITHLEY2400_ETHERNET variable will be set to 192.168.1.2

> >>

> >> The '=' part to supply a default value can be omitted if you like.

> >>

> >> On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:20 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> >>

> >>> Hi,

> >>>

> >>> The documentation seems to imply that you can set macro values from

> >>>the command line. Can anyone tell me how to do it please?

> >>>

> >>> Thanks

> >>>

> >>> Xinyu WU

> >>> ASKAP Computing

> >>> Australia Telescope National Facility

> >>> CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science

> >>> phone: +61 2 9372 4727

> >>> postal: PO Box 76 Epping, NSW. 1710

> >>>

> >>>

> >>

> >> --

> >> Eric Norum

> >> [email protected]

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >>

> >

> >Xinyu WU

> >ASKAP Computing

> >Australia Telescope National Facility

> >CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science

> >phone: +61 2 9372 4727

> >postal: PO Box 76 Epping, NSW. 1710

> >

> >

>

>