Re: epics GUIs (update)

[Tom Pelaia <pelaiata@ornl.gov>]

Hi,

If you are familiar and comfortable writing HTML then I recommend CAML  
(version 2) which was just completed. I haven't prepared my website (http://www.ornl.gov/~t6p/Main/CAML.html 
) for the latest version, yet, but you can download the latest version  
directly from Cosylab. CAML defines a channel access namespace for XML  
controls which you can embed within an XHTML document (mix HTML with  
CAML). You layout your controls within HTML. CAML has a rich set of  
configurable controls (charts, text fields, meter, wheel switch and  
more), and you can customize the styles using a standard Cascading  
Style Sheet. Plus you can perform arbitrary math operations using  
JavaScript. CAML and the WebCA plugin runs on standards based web  
browsers (e.g. Firefox, Safari) for Linux, Mac and Windows.

You can download the plugin from:
http://webca.cosylab.com/downloads.html

You can download the CAML infrastructure from:
http://users.cosylab.com/~msekoranja/webca/

Another option is XAL:
http://www.ornl.gov/~t6p/Main/XAL.html

XAL uses Java Channel Access to communicate with EPICS Channel Access  
and it includes both a GUI builder and application framework. We use  
XAL at SNS to build physics applications, but you can use it to build  
just almost any kind of application you want.

best regards,
tom


On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:19 PM, 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