Re: MEDM widgets

[Robert Soliday <soliday@aps.anl.gov>]

Here at Argonne we have channel access inside our own version of tcl/tk 
which can be downloaded for anyone to use from the OAG web page. Also 
for the tasks that have speed requirements you can create C libraries 
which can be loaded into tcl/tk and thus have the best of both worlds.

--Robert Soliday


Geoff Savage wrote:
> 
> Here's my plug for using Python for specialized tasks instead of Tcl/Tk,
> Java, or Perl.  We have developed a Python module that implements channel
> access.  Our GUI interfaces use Tk.  There are other window managers
> available.  For increased speed you can code in C/C++ and then wrap the
> code for use in Python.
> 
> Geoff
>