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Subject: RE: BOY number representation & display scaling
From: "Chen, Xihui" <[email protected]>
To: Paul Sichta <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:20:11 -0500
Hi Paul,

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

The default numeric format depends on your OS locale setting, e.g. LC_NUMERIC. Unfortunately, I found that most locales use comma as thousands separator. See http://lh.2xlibre.net/values/thousands_sep/

This should not be a problem in our next release since we are porting BOY to use PVManager. In PVManager, it doesn't use locale settings, so there won't be thousands separators anymore. For example, 12345678.123.


>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?  

You can try the "Auto Zoom to Fit All" property or "Auto Scale Widgets" property of the Display.


>Does a WebOPI display behave any differently in this regard?

No, there is no difference on zoom/scale behaviors.


>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.

We should thank John Hammonds from APS for his excellent work on adl2boy!

>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.

There is an "Open OPI in View" widget action that can open an OPI in detached view. I don't know if that can meet your needs.

Thanks,
Xihui


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