Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Don't get me started...  oops! too late.

Debby Quock

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From: "John William Sinclair" <[email protected]>
To: "Ned Arnold" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 11:20:31 AM
Subject: Re: QT-based tools: Expressions of interest requested

I was thinking: QtGirl. Only a girl could be better than the best boy.

Ned Arnold wrote:
> Does this mean we will soon have an application called   Qt BOY ?  
> Not sure where the naming is going here ....
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>    Ned
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>     *From: *"Emmanuel Mayssat" <[email protected]>
>     *To: *"Pavel Stoffel" <[email protected]>
>     *Cc: *[email protected]
>     *Sent: *Thursday, March 1, 2012 2:22:35 AM
>     *Subject: *Re: QT-based tools: Expressions of interest requested
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>     If I were not already convinced to use Qt, I would be by:
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>     1/ qt designer demo
>     2/ qt designer demo with epics aware widget
>     3/ look at the xml (ui) code generated
>     4/ start from the shell of a application that takes the xml file
>     as an arg and display its content and connect to PV and change
>     values of PV (ASgui like)
>     5/ open multiple displays and characterize the load on the machine
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>     After seeing the above, I can immediately ditch m/edm
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>     6/ look at installation procedure
>     7/ look at migration tools (m/edm to Qt)
>     8/ look at code of a simple interface to Qt (without using
>     designer in C++ / python)
>     9/ integration with windows, linux, mac osx GUI themes
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>     complete control system environment
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>     10/ traditional applications (Striptool, adt, feedback app, alarm
>     handler...) ported to Qt
>     11/ 3rd party app (video viewers, ..., non epics aware)   <-- I
>     believe the GigE pyqt app from Pavel  is in that category
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>     I believe as a group, today we can do 1 through 9.
>     Heck, if we are lucky one single computer guru from Australia can
>     do 1 through 9 alone ;-)
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