Re: epics GUIs (update)

[Matthieu Bec <mbec@gemini.edu>]

Hi Emmanuel,

Here at Gemini we started to use GTK+ using pygtk and our home-brewed 
python-ca extension. For gui builders, we picked glade - but there's a 
lot of options (gaspacho, etc).
The experience has been very positive: little coding will get you some 
really nice interfaces. In particular all aspects related to fonts are 
handled by Gnome. The resulting UIs really belong among the other apps 
on your desktop (they follow the desktop theme you select, etc).
You get a lot of flexibility thanks to many other python bindings.

One thing to watch is how all that scales up: the footprint on resources 
is certainly not as good as edm/etc. So there's a compromise.
Matthieu


Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I am trying to develop GUIs for a small epics control system (end-user
> station). I am familiar with edm, medm, but am looking for something
> which is more recent and slick.
>
> Those days Channel Access have been developed for several 3rd party
> programs (python, perl, matlab among others). Do those languages offer
> easy GUI-design interface? In the case of python/tk or perl/tk, I have
> never seen a drag-and-drop GUI builder. 
> It exists for matlab. But here the issue is licensing.
> What about Qt? python/Qt and such?
>
> What is the status of the java-based epics office?
> How difficult/easy is it to develop GUIs?
>
> Anything else I should be considering?
>
> Is anyone using IN PRODUCTION something else than epics/(m)edm?
> What about compiled GUI in matlab?
>
> Thank you for your insight,
> --
> Emmanuel

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