Re: BOY number representation & display scaling

[Paul Sichta <psichta@pppl.gov>]

To suppress the comma for 1,000's:

In java.text.NumberFormat;
I need to specify  setgroupingused(false) for that value.  So, this I
cannot change in the Basic_EPICS package I downloaded from SNS.

-ps


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Paul Sichta <psichta@pppl.gov> wrote:
> 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:
> ==================================
> 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