Easy and effective application programs using DataViews

Author

Mccrory, Elliott S.

Author_Institution

Fermi Nat. Accel. Lab., Batavia, IL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 May 1993

Firstpage

1952

Abstract

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

Keywords

computer graphics; computerised control; data acquisition; linear accelerators; object-oriented programming; physical instrumentation control; physics computing; proton accelerators; software tools; DataViews; Fermilab Linac control system; application programs; applications program builder; data acquisition; modularity; object-oriented graphics subroutines; operational experience; programmatic structure; view editor; Application software; Contracts; Control systems; Data acquisition; Geometry; Graphics; Linear particle accelerator; Packaging; Sun; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the 1993

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1203-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.1993.309188

Filename

309188