Re: striptool - was: Re: Idea for new Display Manager

[Maren Purves <m.purves@eaobservatory.org>]

Thanks guys, it's good to know that there are some established
ways forward!

Maren

On 03/01/18 18:21, Andrew C. Starritt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I may be biased, but I like the StripChart available in epicsQt.
>
>
> The user guide is available here
> https://github.com/qtepics/qeframework/blob/master/documentation/Strip_Chart_User_Guide.pdf
>
>
> It displays both live and archive data – the later currently from the
> Channel Access archiver, however integration
>
> with  Archive Appliance going well and hope to get that released by June.
>
>
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>
> *From:*tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov
> [mailto:tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov] *On Behalf Of *Matt Newville
> *Sent:* Friday, 2 March 2018 2:02 PM
> *To:* Maren Purves; EPICS Tech Talk
> *Subject:* Re: striptool - was: Re: Idea for new Display Manager
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Maren Purves <m.purves@eaobservatory.org
> <mailto:m.purves@eaobservatory.org>> wrote:
>
> On 03/01/18 11:00, keith.thorne wrote:
>
> - On a related note:  What are the best options to replace Striptool?
> (also antique X-11, also EOL).
>
>
> We're in that boat as well, if anybody has suggestions.
>
> TIA,
> Maren
>
>
> Depending on what you're looking for, you might find the StripChart tool
> at https://github.com/pyepics/epicsapps/tree/master/StripChart useful.
>
> This can connect to multiple PVs and gives a real-time plot their recent
> history, and supports saving images or plaintext files of the data.  If
> it is missing features or there are things you don't like about it,  it
> is only 700 lines of Python, which means that a) you don't need to rely
> on unsupported X11 apps at all, and b) that you could probably get a
> summer intern to modify or completely rewrite it.
>
>
> --Matt Newville