Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Phoebus: text color based on alarm severity

[Paul Sichta via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

I was applying the prefix and have used the border feature.    Kay's insight that only certain objects follow the preference clears up why it didn't work as I expected.

Regards,

-ps

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 9:59 AM Kasemir, Kay <kasemirk at ornl.gov> wrote:

Michael is correct on the settings file syntax.

Still, note that those colors aren’t for everything that you might have in mind.

 

The alarm table, probe, PV table use these settings that you mention.

 

For the display builder, the “alarm sensitive” behavior is handled via a border around the widget, see

https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/phoebus/wiki/Display-Builder-Compatibility#alarm-indication

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Monday, November 11, 2024 at 9:49 PM
To: Paul Sichta <psichta at pppl.gov>
Cc: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Phoebus: text color based on alarm severity

On 11/11/24 16:45, Paul Sichta via Tech-talk wrote:
> I have added the preferences below in my settings.ini file.  I expected the text color to change based on alarm sevr but it just stays the same (the color selected for the text update object) .
>
> excerpt from preferences listing:
> # Color for text and the background for 'OK' alarm severity (R,G,B or R,G,B,A values in range 0..255)
> ok_severity_text_color=0,255,0
> ok_severity_background_color=255,255,255
>
> # Color for text and the background for 'MINOR' alarm severity
> minor_severity_text_color=255,128,0

The way the phoebus settings.ini files are structured is always:

> package.name/preference_name=value

So there will _always_ be a '/' somewhere.

Parsing this from the documentation is a confusing...

https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://control-system-studio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/preference_properties.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!bKdm6KbqSxWqXdi3twX47I9pcd1wJIFNMLKAtNnPI6PFr5B8cuVZsqQd0R0j-1mfa8WBgzTK2ASVnfBOfeUku9ZTaw$

the section you quote is preceded by:

> File ../../core/ui/src/main/resources/phoebus_ui_preferences.properties:
>
> # ----------------------
> # Package org.phoebus.ui
> # ----------------------

So the full name of eg. 'ok_severity_text_color' as it should appear in settings.ini is:

> org.phoebus.ui/ok_severity_text_color=0,255,0