EDM Extensible Display Manager John Sinclair EDM: Extensible Display Manager by John Sinclair Copyright © 2002 John Sinclair This document can be freely redistributed according to the terms of the GNU General Public License. Table of Contents 1. Overview................................................................................................................................................. Introduction........................................................................................................................................ Other EPICS Display Managers........................................................................................................... Display Widgets................................................................................................................................... Editing Features.................................................................................................................................... 2. Software Installation................................................................................................................................ System Requirements......................................................................................................................... Installation Procedure........................................................................................................................... 3. System Configuration.............................................................................................................................. Location and contents of component files........................................................................................ edmObjects................................................................................................................................. edmPvObjects............................................................................................................................. Color File Configuration...................................................................................................................... Static Colors................................................................................................................................ Dyanmic Colors.......................................................................................................................... The Color Palette and Functional Name Menu.......................................................................... Color Aliases.............................................................................................................................. Alarm Colors.............................................................................................................................. Example Color File..................................................................................................................... Font File Configuration........................................................................................................................ Version 3 Font File Format........................................................................................................ Font Groups....................................................................................................................... Version 2 Font File Format........................................................................................................ Version 1 Font File Format........................................................................................................ Scalable Fonts............................................................................................................................. Example Font File....................................................................................................................... Printing................................................................................................................................................. The Print Definition File............................................................................................................. Directives.................................................................................................................................... printDialog.................................................................................................................................. printCommand............................................................................................................................ printToFileCommand................................................................................................................. optionDefaults............................................................................................................................. option.......................................................................................................................................... Dialog Field Type = menu................................................................................................ Dialog Field Type = toggle............................................................................................... Dialog Field Type = text................................................................................................... Example Print Definition File..................................................................................................... 4. Program Execution, Command Line Options, and Environment....................................................... Execution............................................................................................................................................. Environment......................................................................................................................................... Special Purpose Environment Variables.............................................................................................. 3 5. The Project Environment......................................................................................................... Colors, Fonts, and Display Schemes................................................................................... Display Schemes.......................................................................................................... Display Scheme Sets.................................................................................................... Step 1.................................................................................................................. Step 2.................................................................................................................. Location of edm component and PV component files.......................................................... Component Management....................................................................................................... Location of edm help files..................................................................................................... Display file search path.......................................................................................................... Location of edm tmp files...................................................................................................... 6. PV Types..................................................................................................................................... Introduction.......................................................................................................................... EPICS - Prefix = EPICS\ (or NULL)........................................................................... Calculations - Prefix = CALC\..................................................................................... Local - Prefix = LOC\.................................................................................................. Specifying local PVs........................................................................................... Scope................................................................................................................... 7. Creating and Editing Display Windows.................................................................................. File Operations..................................................................................................................... Setting the Default Working Directory........................................................................ Creating a New Display File........................................................................................ Opening an Existing Display File................................................................................ Using the Mouse.................................................................................................................... Some Definitions.......................................................................................................... Simple Select Operations............................................................................................. Multiple Select Operations........................................................................................... Create/Edit Operations................................................................................................. Move and Resize Operations........................................................................................ Execute Mode Operations...........................................................................................