Easy and effective application programs using DataViews

The commercially-available product DataViews is being used for a simple and effective applications program builder for the new Fermilab Linac control system. This product consists of a “view” editor, a thorough set of object-oriented graphics subroutines and a convenient method for incorporating your own data acquisition into the system. There are many advantages to this package, most significantly the modularity and effectiveness of the graphics and of the data acquisition schemes. First, the programmatic structure of the DataViews product is described. Then a brief description of the Fermilab Linac control system is presented. A few of the programs developed using DataViews are described, especially a simple application-builder program. Finally, some operational experience is presented