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Hi Whit,
Try epicsQT from the Australian Synchrotron.
It works well for me.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/epicsqt/
Pete.
On 02/27/2018 12:53 PM, Whitney R.
Armstrong wrote:
Hello,
My recent experience with display managers left me with the
conclusion that a new DM is desperately needed. Here is a quick
recap of my experiences and thoughts dealing with the different
display managers.
Note I am using the latest Ubuntu and Epics base-7 and my comments
are tongue-in-cheek.
1. MEDM : It works! This old gem works (almost) perfectly. It has
a very easy to use interface, but of course, is rather limited.
2. edm : Where do I download it? The webpage is broken. (Last
documentation update was in 2007: is also not a good sign.)
3. caQtDM: A home rolled build system is never a good sign. It
compiles but then crashes when launched. I get a horrible hand
cramp trying to debug things because who types "caQtDM" with ease?
Does it work... I don't know... maybe?
4. CS-studios: First I follow the instructions on the website:
fails. Eclipse cannot install all the needed parts. Next I try
running maven to build from the core directory. After maven
downloads the entire internet the build fails with some horrible
java errors. (Why is java still a
thing?) CSS looks nice from all the pictures but it has some bugs
(or undocumented features).
Anyway, if I missed any DMs please let me know. As you can tell,
IMO MEDM is still the winner.
The idea for a new display manager is to use an "immediate mode"
gui (imgui) design which is much easier than "retain mode" like
qt, gtk, etc. I have been playing around with Dear ImGui
(https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) which has become quite popular.
A test using ImGui and looks for PVs from the example ioc app can
be found here https://github.com/whit2333/imgui_DM .
My initial take away: It was easier to develop my own DM than
build most of the existing display mangers. I am not sure if this
speaks to the awesomeness of Dear ImGui, or the sad state of
existing DMs (but not you MEDM, you are my rock).
In summary, I would like to develop a new display manager around
Dear ImGui and any feedback or comments on the idea would be
great.
Cheers,
Whit
PS This repo was super useful
(https://github.com/mdavidsaver/cmake4epics) and cmake could make
life easier by replacing many parts of the -- let's say, unique --
"Epics build system".
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D. Peter Siddons
Detector Development Group Leader
Photon Science Division, NSLS-II,
Bldg. 535B
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, NY 11973
email: [email protected]
Phone: (631) 344-2738
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