Re: HippoDraw and others

[Claude Saunders <saunders@aps.anl.gov>]

Hello,
SNS (Spallation Neutron Source) has a Java application framework called 
XAL. They have a "channel" abstraction in the code that allows using 
EPICS channel access, as well as other underlying data sources. They 
also have a "scope" application for displaying waveforms from such 
"channels". Given it's Java, the scope will run on Solaris or Linux. 
From what I saw of the demo, it performs quite well. There is lots of 
stuff in XAL beyond this, but it's easy to find and extract what is desired.

http://www.sns.gov/APGroup/appProg/xal/xal.htm

I'm using a subset of XAL (dubbed CFW) just as a general Java 
applications framework at APS.

  - Claude Saunders

Leonard J. Reder wrote:

> Hello,  I have been looking at HippoDraw for a new project.  The 
> project wants to monitor both EPICS type channels and arbitruary 
> channels from a simulator.   They want to display multiple waveforms 
> updating is real-time on Solaris and Linux boxes.  It looks like using 
> Python one can do this with HippoDraw pretty easilly but does anyone 
> know of other graphics backend tools for this sort of general thing.  
> I seem to recall striptool but I am not you could hook third party 
> simulator outputs into it.  Any names of free tools or products would 
> be appreciated.
>
> Regards and thanks for any replies,
>
> Len