Questions about code-free development with epicsqt

["Chavez, Joy" <jchavez@gemini.edu>]

Hi,

I am new to EPICS, QT, and epicsqt and struggling to write an alarm based on several epics channels at our observatory.  

I would like to stay within QTDesigner because QEGui doesn't recognize arithmetic or logic that I code in QTCreator.  And, I like the user levels and epics options that QEGui window offers that are not available when I 'run' the ui/project from QTCreator.  

But I don't know how to do the same arithmetic or logic within QTDesigner.  I would like to subtract the values from two channels, and and then based on weather conditions have colors change in QEGroupBoxes and sounds play.  

I am happy to go into more details, but I hesitate if this is correct forum for hand-holding with widget creation.  Are there examples that do show some of these things?  Would private messaging be better?

Thank you,

Joy Chavez
Science Operation Specialist
Gemini Observatory, North
670 N. A'ohoku Place
Hilo, HI
808-974-2580