1 / 8

The Future of EDM: A Journey of Innovation and Collaboration

Explore the origin of EDM, the challenges faced during its development, and the roadmap for its future. Discover the opportunities to learn, the conversion woes, and the quest for new major features. Join us in this journey of exploration and find answers to your questions.

hkillion
Download Presentation

The Future of EDM: A Journey of Innovation and Collaboration

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Future of EDM John Sinclair 22-Sep-2016

  2. Origin • EDM came to be as the result of a similar issue facing current users today • HRIBF was porting VSystem-base controls to EPICS • MEDM seemed to be the DM of choice but there were significant differences • MEDM developer had no time to add new features, hence birth of EDM

  3. Effort • First version created in 6 weeks working at home in the evenings • EPICS was not yet freely available • Needed to use whatever free software was available, hence GPL • image processing • curl • First version supported Vsystem • Total effort over last 14 years < 2 man years

  4. Great Fun • Became aware of EPICS community • Most of what I consider to be the nicest features in EDM came from the community • So many opportunities to learn • Many interesting ideas • Wealth of practical experience • Great memories from past collaborations

  5. Conversion Woes • Operators spend many hours cramming as much information as possible on a large set of screens that become their OPIs of choice • For these, automatic conversion to BOY doesn’t always succeed • Converting one busy screen that EDM loads in 2-4 seconds resulted in an OPI file that took over 1 minute to render • Manual conversion is the sometimes the only option

  6. Roadmap • Add a few features that have been recently requested • What then? • Spend effort not on building converters but on conversion assistants • Examine caQtDM • Very nice piece of work • Will it support enough edm behavior to make the conversion doable?

  7. Roadmap • Create a widget-toolkit independent version of EDM with various new major features • Support BOY OPI files? • Create a Qt version of EDM • This already exists for an older EDM version (a few widgets not yet implemented) • Took about one month (elapsed time) to complete

  8. More Questions than Answers • Thanks for listening • Questions?

More Related