cpascual
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4 years ago I would say that what you are looking for is provided by the taurus synoptics support
Here you have two options:
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You can use the Tango Synoptics, for which Taurus provides the TaurusJDrawSynopticsView widget. This is what we use at ALBA. The synoptic file in this case is a plain text file that can be generated with the jdraw tool (which is installed as part of the libtango-java tools). For a very basic example, you can run:
wget https://github.com/taurus-org/taurus/raw/develop/lib/taurus/qt/qtgui/graphic/jdraw/test/res/SimpleScalarViewer.jdw python3 -m taurus.qt.qtgui.graphic.jdraw.jdraw_view SimpleScalarViewer.jdw -
Alternatively, in MAXIV they implemented SVG-synoptics which uses SVG files for defining the synoptic and a javascript engine to render the graphics within a Qt widget integrated with Taurus. I've got no personal experience with it, but from the demos I've seen, it looks beautiful and provides interesting features such as layerable and zoomable schematics.
I hope this helps.
Hi,
I am currently running both EPICS and TANGO/Taurus/Sardana in one lab which is quite harmonic.
EPICS runs actually because of some historic reasons but I have most of my environmental and safty hardware implemented within EPICS, like vales, shutters, temperatures, pressures, etc.
One thing I like very much is the usage of caQtDM to build a graphical control panel of the lab.
However, as we are currently setting up a new lab, I am thinking of trying to get rid of EPICS completely, but I got somehow stuck with the caQtDM replacement.
I have something like this here in mind: http://caqtdm.github.io/snapshot8.png How would you build something like that in Taurus? I would start with a TaurusGUI but I havn't found out, how to combine the grphical representation of the lab with the according position of the indicators, etc.
Are there maybe any examples around?