RE: BOY number representation & display scaling

["Kasemir, Kay" <kasemirk@ornl.gov>]

Hi:

On the shrink/enlarge/scale the entire/F8 ('compact' mode, 'full screen' mode), 'detach', 'dragging' a tab into a detached window:

With Eclipse 3.x, what's internally known as an 'editor' type panel cannot be 'detached'.
The BOY source code related to 'compact' and 'full screen' modes was added to somewhat work around this fundamental condition.

With Eclipse 4.x, the current version of Eclipse, most of that would be a non-issue: You can now simply 'drag' any panel outside of the workbench to have it as a freely floating window.
..but the code that was added to BOY to work around the 3.x conditions is right now the main thing that keeps us from building CSS with Eclipse 4.x..

On the list of things to do, porting everything to Eclipse 4.x has somewhat slipped behind supporting the PVManager, new logbook API, and local SNS requirements.
I don't think it's too far into the future now, maybe a few months.

Thanks,
Kay

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From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov [tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Paul Sichta [psichta@pppl.gov]
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:00 PM
To: tech-talk@aps.anl.gov
Subject: BOY number representation & display scaling

Exploring BOY-land from medm.

1) Using BOY, I want large numbers to be displayed with no comma.
e.g.  145,123 I want to display as 145123

Widget type text update, format type decimal. Tried format string and
that showed gibberish. Also tried a few others widget types to no
avail. I tried several LC_NUMERIC environment settings before css
launch, no help there.

Any ideas?


2) With medm, when I resized a display's window the entire display
scaled.  With BOY this is not the behavior - you just shrink the
visible portion of the display.  To shrink/enlarge/scale the entire
display takes several steps and the F8 key.  Is there a trick or
setting to rescale the entire display - widgets, text, objects?  Does
a WebOPI display behave any differently in this regard?




just some comments on my experience:
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Had success with SNS Basic_EPICS version.

I was very impressed with how quickly I was able to adl2boy our 400
medm displays.  Most needed a tweak (compound visibility rule) and
some wouldn't convert (shell script launcher?)  but basically they all
worked. adl2boy worked on my 32-bit RHEL5 Basic_EPICS but not on my
64-bit RHEL_5.

I like the tabbing feature when additional displays are brought up,
but I also like to arrange many displays across numerous operator
screens - often shrinking the displays to get more on there all
visible at once.  I added an action button to each display to 'detach'
;  that gets me my displays on independent windows.  I tried to drag
the display's tab out of the window but this didn't work.  I also
thought a right-click option to 'detach' would also be useful ...I
know  I know, if I want that feature then code it up  :).  But my
window resize/rescale issue remains.  The operators are used to this
feature.


-ps