Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]> · Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:04:51 -0700

Hello,

I have been using medm for a long time.
I just moved to edm.
I use the adl2edl script for migration.

I need clarifications on the following undocumented features.

1/ what is an action file?
2/ I found colors.list and fonts.list in the edm installation. How can I
create or modify them?
3/ I am now using edm files from an outside source. My color scheme
doesn't work at all with those displays. Is there a reason for that?
4/ What are calc.list and how can I use them? Does that mean that fancy
calculation can be done at the GUI level? Do you recommend those?
5/ What is an edm server? I assume my localhost should be an edm server
for all of my local edm displays? If so, how can I configure it that
way? EDMSERVERS, etc.
6/ The edm environment (as read through the edm gui) includes a lot of
environment variables. For example EDMXSYNC, EDMSUPERVISOR, etc. Where
can I find a detailed description of those variables?
7/ While we are at it. I have difficulties understanding all of the
options to edm. Are they better documented somewhere else than in edm
-h?
8/ adl2edl converts my adl files by using the hevetica fonts, which is
too small. Is there a way to select fonts, etc. for the adl2edl
conversion?

Regards,

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Emmanuel Mayssat

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System