Author: Amand, F.
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WEPGF146 GUI Style Guide for Control System Applications at ESS 1047
 
  • F. Amand, M. Pavleski, M. Pleško
    Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • L. Fernandez
    ESS, Lund, Sweden
  
  To help de­vel­op­ers cre­ate con­sis­tent-look­ing con­trol sys­tem ap­pli­ca­tion GUIs, the Eu­ro­pean Spal­la­tion Source In­te­grated Con­trol Sys­tems group asked Co­sy­lab to de­velop a Style Guide doc­u­ment. Its pur­pose is to avoid that GUIs need­lessly di­verge and make the end-re­sult of all screens com­bined look har­mo­nious, even if GUIs have been de­vel­oped over sev­eral years by many con­trib­u­tors. Also it will speed up de­vel­op­ment, by let­ting de­vel­op­ers start from de­sign pat­terns, rather than start­ing "from a blank page". The doc­u­ment de­fines a set of basic panel sizes, con­tain­ing a 960px-style grid for con­sis­tent or­ga­ni­za­tion of con­tent. It also de­fines color scheme and font usage, in-line with the over­all ESS cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions man­ual, with the ad­di­tion of sig­nal col­ors. In ad­di­tion it shows ex­am­ple screens to serve as GUI de­sign pat­terns for typ­i­cal screen types such as en­gi­neer­ing screens, con­trol ap­pli­ca­tions and syn­op­tic screens. It con­cludes by set­ting rules and rec­om­men­da­tions for the usage of au­toma­tion sym­bols and dis­play of en­gi­neer­ing and phys­i­cal units. The doc­u­ment is fur­ther com­ple­mented by a sep­a­rate doc­u­ment with Us­abil­ity Guide­lines for Hu­man-Ma­chine in­ter­faces.  
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