Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Kasemir, Kay via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:11:52 +0000

In an interactive session, open the desired display(s).
Maybe use the "Window" menu to hide toolbar and status bar, and maybe select the full-screen mode.
Use Window, Save Layout As .. to save that layout.
By default, it will end in a file $HOME/.phoebus/NameOfLayout.memento, for details see https://control-system-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/locations.html

From now on you can start phoebus with the 
    -layout /path/to/Example.memento
option to open that saved layout.

> Ideally I would just like to ship a single binary which can be loaded by a user (given the have the JVM) and they see a simple read-only screen.

You can include the JVM in your package.
The example launch scripts look for "../jdk".
The SNS-specific packages use that.

BUT: That's a large package to download, just to offer you users with a crippled read-only screen.

Have you looked at the display builder web runtime, https://github.com/kasemir/dbwr?
That allows your users to see (by default: read only) displays in a web browser.
There are some limitations to what you can do in that display, mostly: No scripts, but many screens will "just work" with zero installation effort on the user end.

-Kay

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Stainer Tom via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00 PM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Phoebus lock down BOB 

Dear,

I have a Display builder (.bob) file which I would like to “lock down” in the sense that I can provide a stand-alone application just showing this OPI without the ability to edit or play with it, and hide from the user that it is CS-Studio/Phoebus.

Ideally I would just like to ship a single binary which can be loaded by a user (given the have the JVM) and they see a simple read-only screen.

I am sure this is possible to do, I just am struggling to find any documentation or examples on how to do this.

I’ve been trying things like this with no success:
./phoebus.sh -resource file:/home/user/opi/simple.bob?app=display_runtime

Any pointers or advice on this would be much appreciated.

Kind regards,
Tom

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System