BOY number representation & display scaling

[Paul Sichta <psichta@pppl.gov>]

Exploring BOY-land from medm.

1) Using BOY, I want large numbers to be displayed with no comma.
e.g.  145,123 I want to display as 145123

Widget type text update, format type decimal. Tried format string and
that showed gibberish. Also tried a few others widget types to no
avail. I tried several LC_NUMERIC environment settings before css
launch, no help there.

Any ideas?


2) With medm, when I resized a display's window the entire display
scaled.  With BOY this is not the behavior - you just shrink the
visible portion of the display.  To shrink/enlarge/scale the entire
display takes several steps and the F8 key.  Is there a trick or
setting to rescale the entire display - widgets, text, objects?  Does
a WebOPI display behave any differently in this regard?




just some comments on my experience:
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Had success with SNS Basic_EPICS version.

I was very impressed with how quickly I was able to adl2boy our 400
medm displays.  Most needed a tweak (compound visibility rule) and
some wouldn't convert (shell script launcher?)  but basically they all
worked. adl2boy worked on my 32-bit RHEL5 Basic_EPICS but not on my
64-bit RHEL_5.

I like the tabbing feature when additional displays are brought up,
but I also like to arrange many displays across numerous operator
screens - often shrinking the displays to get more on there all
visible at once.  I added an action button to each display to 'detach'
;  that gets me my displays on independent windows.  I tried to drag
the display's tab out of the window but this didn't work.  I also
thought a right-click option to 'detach' would also be useful ...I
know  I know, if I want that feature then code it up  :).  But my
window resize/rescale issue remains.  The operators are used to this
feature.


-ps