Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Young, James R." <[email protected]> · Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:57:34 -0700

Hello,

I would like to create widgets that show up as Objects in the edm builder.  Instead of just Graphics/Line or Monitors/Meter (for example) there would also be an option like "Controls/NEWOBJECT," where NEWOBJECT is a widget that accepts PVs and has a list of fields that should be completed.  I realize you can do this by simply creating an embedded window called NEWOBJECT and referencing it wherever you need to, but this often seems to lead to a complicated process of locating the original file to edit it.  

To my knowledge, the only way to add a new object is to actually write a new class file (like activeLineClass.cc) and header file (like activeLineClass.h) and add the edmObjects file like "activeLineClass $(EDMLIBS)/libEdmBase.so Graphics Lines."  Is this the only way to do this?  Or is there possibly a way to create an embedded window and translate this to an object.  

Thank You,
James

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System