RE: string "no alarm" color in edm textupdate, text monitor behavior seems to vary

["Allison, Stephanie" <saa@slac.stanford.edu>]

Hi Carl,

The textupdate widget does the no_alarm color differently from the textmonitor widget.  The code is different and I think probably developed by different people.  When alarm sensitivity is chosen, for no_alarm, textupdate uses the color that you specify for foreground and textmonitor uses the alarm color from the color rule unless you also choose alarm border.  If you choose the alarm border, a color border appears only when not no_alarm.  I use alarm borders as much as possible since values are sometimes hard to see in the green, yellow, red colors.  My preference is to use textmonitor as much as possible.

Stephanie Allison

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf
> Of Carl Lionberger
> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 9:30 AM
> To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
> Subject: string "no alarm" color in edm textupdate, text monitor behavior seems to vary
> 
> I've always been under the impression that even if you check "alarm sensitive" on the edm
> widgets, when the PV is in the no alarm condition the color will be the foreground color
> configured for the widget.  Usually I make this green so I don't test this much.  On my
> desktop installation, if I make the foreground color something else like black, the text is
> black under the no alarm severity, but goes yellow for minor, red for major.  In the ALS
> control room edm installation, though, it changes the text color to green in the no alarm
> condition regardless of the foreground color configuration.  Is this an edm version
> difference, is there some display parameter its looking at, or what?
> 
> Carl
> 
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