Len writes:
>
> Is there any way to add user-defined menus to a dm window?
>
> What we would like to do is display menus in an EPICS interface. Later on
> we shall be using Tcl/Tk for user interfaces but for the time being we need
> to develop a simple engineering interface for cryostat control. Very often
> there is a set of choices, which we have been selecting by typing names or
> values into a text entry field. We would much prefer to present the engineer
> with a fixed set of options in many cases, via a menu of some kind. The names
> of the options and any associated values are supplied from a file read down
> from the host, so it would be nice to set up the menu dynamically, i.e. at
> runtime.
>
> In edd/dm it is easy enough to connect to a record field which already has
> multiple choices built in, by using a choice or menu button. The question is,
> is there any way to adapt this for user defined lists?
>
There is currently no way to add user-defined menus in dm. (It's a nice idea,
though.) I'm not sure if this would help solve your problem, but you can use
an "execute script" in dm to call up a TCL/TK script (or any script or
executable).
Deb
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