1. January 2009EPICS Seminar in Indore1 Introduction to Display Manager MEDM & EDM Tatsuro NAKAMURA @ KEK January 2009

2. EPICS Seminar in Indore2 Display Manager Display Manager is … –An Interactive GUI builder and execution engine for control screens. –A kind of CA client program. Several Display Managers are developed. –EDD/DM –MEDM –dm2k –EDM

3. January 2009EPICS Seminar in Indore3 MEDM Motif Editor and Display Manager Developed at APS since 1990 Old but mature –Robust and Stable –Powerful –Efficient

4. January 2009EPICS Seminar in Indore4 MEDM Documents Web Page –http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/extensions/med m/index.phphttp://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/extensions/med m/index.php Tutorial Slides –http://www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/epicsgettingstart ed/starttools/medm.htmhttp://www.aps.anl.gov/bcda/epicsgettingstart ed/starttools/medm.htm

5. January 2009EPICS Seminar in Indore5 EDM Extensible Display Manager Developed at ORNL Newer product than MEDM Component based --- Extensible widgets –“objects” can be added/removed from the list of available objects without recompiling EDM itself.

6. January 2009EPICS Seminar in Indore6 EDM Documents Web Page –http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/edm/ Tutorial Slides –http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/docs/USPAS2007.phphttp://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/docs/USPAS2007.php –http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/kasemir/train_2006 /http://ics-web.sns.ornl.gov/kasemir/train_2006 /

7. January 2009EPICS Seminar in Indore7 Other Display Managers EDD/DM –The display editor (EDD) and the display manager (DM) –Developed at LANL –No longer supported dm2k –Originated from MEDM in 1996 –Developed at BESSY –No longer supported