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Chen, Xihui wrote:

Hi John,

Thanks for your comment! Can you explain more details about the widgets

that don't work?

I tested those widgets on my Windows Vista machine, and they all worked
properly.

Does your problem looks like this? The widgets that didn't work have no
problem in appearance. You can see them and click them. But they cannot
display data from a PV or write the data to a PV?
If yes. I guess you didn't set the dynamic value of the widget. Please
right click the "value" property of the widget(E.g. a knob), select
"Configure Dynamic Aspects". In the Dynamics Wizard dialog, set the
Channel of Value as " $channel$". Then right click the next row, select
"Add Output Channel", then set the Channel column of the new row as

"$channel$" too. Click finish. Save and Run again.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience. I didn't implement the initializer for
the new widgets yet,  which I just created in the latest two months. For
the old widgets, the initializer will configure the dynamic aspects
automatically. That's why you have to set the dynamic aspects of the new
widgets manually at so far. I think the initializer for the new widgets
will be implemented in the next release.

Thanks,

Xihui



-----Original Message-----

From: John Hammonds [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:31 PM

To: Kasemir, Kay
Cc: Tech-talk; [email protected]; Chen, Xihui
Subject: Re: CSS Update

I have been playing around with this the last couple of days, especially

with SDS. I seem to be finding that either not all of the widgets are functional or I am missing something major in the setup. Things like sliders, thumbwheels, bargraphs,16bit LEDs,stripcharts and the meter are

working but the Express Meter, Knob, gauge, Text Input, tank and thermometer do not. Just wandering how much of this is me missing something and how much is just problems yet to solve. Note that I am starting with the Basic distribution.

John

Kasemir, Kay wrote:

Hi:

At the Vancouver EPICS meeting it became apparent that several people

are

interested in trying Control System Studio (CSS), but it's unclear

where

to start.
Those who download CSS from DESY find a product with login dialog for
DESY; the SNS version asks you to select a "Workspace", has no
Synoptic Display but instead stuff which only works at the SNS.

A recent effort of SNS, Cosylab and DESY made it easier to create your

own,

site-specific CSS product. Based on that, the SNS CSS web page now

offers

a "Basic EPICS" version of CSS with (hopefully) no DESY or SNS

specifics:

http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/css/products.html

The updated web page should also make it easier to see how
a Basic EPICS product differs from the SNS or DESY setup.

Thanks,
-Kay

--
John Hammonds
Beamline Controls and Data Acquisition Group
APS Engineering Support Division

Argonne National Laboratory
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
(630)252-5317

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