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> I assume you also set the P and R macros in CSS under Preferences -> CSS Applications -> Display -> BOY -> OPI Runtime?  (Or one of the methods noted in [1]?)

No, because I am using top-level screens like ADTop.opi that don't require P and R to be set, they hard-code them for the displays they launch.

> I was trying to avoid compiling medm for Windows and installing an X11 server on Windows.  

There is no need to compile medm for Windows.  There is a nice msi installer for the EPICS Windows Tools (medm, command line utilites, etc.) here:

https://epics.anl.gov/distributions/win32/

We have been using the MobaXterm program as the X11 server.  It is very nice, with good ssh client and is available for free or for a small fee if you want support.

https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: J. Lewis Muir [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 10:47 AM
To: Mark Rivers <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Tech-Talk <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Open .opi filenames with spaces from command line?

On 05/29, Mark Rivers wrote:
> I then open CSS with no command line arguments and then use File/Open 
> in CSS to open the top-level display, for example ADTop.opi.  From 
> there I can open simDetector.opi and all related displays, and CSS 
> will find them with no problem because they are all in the same 
> directory as ADTop.opi.

Hi, Mark!

Thanks for sharing your method.  I'll try that.  I assume you also set the P and R macros in CSS under Preferences -> CSS Applications -> Display -> BOY -> OPI Runtime?  (Or one of the methods noted in [1]?)

I was thinking that CSS would be the fastest works-out-of-the-box solution for areaDetector and plugin displays under Windows, but now I'm not so sure.  I was trying to avoid compiling medm for Windows and installing an X11 server on Windows.  But maybe I'm close with CSS, and if I can accept the inconvenience of not being able to start a display from the command line, it will still be fine.

Thanks!

Lewis

[1] https://epics.anl.gov/tech-talk/2012/msg00375.php

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