Conveners
User Interface tools and techniques: EPICS development
- Andrew Johnson (Argonne National Laboratory)
A report of the discussions and developments from the CS-Studio core developers meeting.
CS-Studio includes an EDM-to-BOY converter. It's being ported to the latest version of CS-Studio, Phoebus, where it turns into an EDM-to-DisplayBuilder converter. It can be used from the UI or in batch mode to convert a bunch of displays. In addition, it offers a new just-in-time mode where it can download EDM displays and convert them when the user first tries to access them.
The CS-Studio display builder is available in both the older Eclipse-based CS-Studio and the latest "Phoebus" version of CS-Studio that no longer relies on Eclipse.
Recent additions include an MEDM converter that directly translates MEDM .adl files into the .bob file format.
The biggest recent addition is a Display Builder Web Runtime which allows viewing most of the display builder screens,...
The European Spallation Source (ESS) is under construction and commissioning. OPIs created this far are mainly created in Display Builder in CS Studio/Eclipse, and users have become familiar with CS Studio and the tools provided. We intend to deploy CS Studio/Phoebus to the control room during Q4 2019, where it will replace CS Studio/Eclipse. The transition is prepared by investigating how...
The European Spallation Source (ESS) has contributed to CS Studio/Phoebus with a adaptation of the save-and-restore tool in CS Studio/Eclipse. This adaptation includes both a new service for persistence of save-and-restore data, as well as a UI facelift. This talk briefly summarizes the save-and-restore tool in CS Studio/Phoebus, and discusses limitations and future enhancements.
