The File Menu Button

Figure 6.3 shows the File menu button of the toplevel widget:

Figure 6.3: The TkI File Menu
Image toplevel_file

 BLC (jddd): Launches the beamline control jddd application.

 Postscript: Creates laser.png and sends it to the printer. The workstation viewport is temporarily changed to A4. The destination is specified by the symbol PRINTER, the environment variable PRINTER and the environment variable LPDEST. In that order.

 Create motors.lis: Creates a new version of /online_dir/motors.lis. The file contains the motor positions, aliases, limits and register contents.

 Clear log
Clears the log widget.

 Refresh
Refreshes the motor list box.

 Update timer
This check-box starts and cancels a timer that updates all widgets periodically.

 Message box
Opens/closes the message bos which is mostly used to display motor positions.

 Exit to CLI: Exit to the command line interface.

 Exit: