Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Probe

Probe is a Motif application that can monitor one PV and display information about the underlying database record.

Probe was developed at the APS, but future maintenance by us is likely to be very limited.

Documentation

The following documents are available. Textual links are to HTML documents, and other formats are indicated by an icon link. More information about the Flash demos and help, if you have trouble, can be obtained here.

• Probe Demo in Flash
  by Kenneth Evans, Jr. (August 2004)
   

Software Download

Binaries

A prebuilt version of Probe for WIN32 is available in the EPICS Windows Tools distribution.

Source

The following tar files contains source code only (no binaries), and were compressed using gnuzip.

• probe1_1_8_0 (01 August 2014) Changed "IOC" to "Host" in info window.
• probe1_1_7_1 (24 January 2013) Fixed definition of Xp_DIR
• probe1_1_7_0 (22 June 2012) Modified dialogs for using Xming X server on WIN32
• probe1_1_5_2 (1 Nov 2010) string length bug fix and portability changes
• probe1_1_5_1 (10 Aug 2007) Portability changes
• probe1_1_5_0 (25 June 2007) R3.14 Makefiles
• probe1_1_4_0 (22 November 2004)
• probe1_1_3_0 (10 October 2004)
• probe1_1_2_2 (5 Aug 2002)

Required Software

Probe requires that the Motif and X11 header files and libraries be available and that the X11 and MOTIF settings in CONFIG_SITE.<epics_host_arch>.<epics_host_arch> be set correctly.