New in the release

The features were implemented by Fabien Perriollat from CERN (CMS experiment).

• New resource Sensitivity PV was added into every Control element resource list (Valuator, Text Entry, etc.).
• New resource Display Type was added into Display element. This made an available to have adl display within modal dialog windows.
• Two Help infos describing mouse/button actions are available. Help batton is on a main window menubar. One info is for actions in EDIT mode, another one is for EXECUTE mode.
• Some resources of an element can be viewed in run-time in Properties dialog invoked by Ctrl-MB3.
  
• Command line option -readonly was added. This made all Control element insensitive for actions of user.
• medm -help will show to user all available MEDM options.

The features were implemented at DESY.

New concept of Color Rule

MEDM in startup time reads ColorRules file and constucts internal list of available color rules. The file consists of an arbitrary number of color rules. Each color rule can consists of an arbitrary number(not just 16 as it was before) of rule entries(low boundary, high boundary, and color index). The ColorRules file has to keep all color rules been using in adl used files. New environtment MEDM_COLOR_RULE keeps a path to this file. If the env is not set, then medm reads file ColorRules in current directory. If there is not such file, MEDM uses default color rules hard coded into the source.

New resources was added to Bar element:

Color Mode (static/alarm/descrete) Scale Type (linear/logarithm) Show Bar (on/off) Show Alarm Limits (on/off) Show Scale (on/off) Show Alarm Limits (from channel/local) Low Limit, float point value High Limit, float point value

The Resource Palette for Bar elememt.

The example of using Bar elements.