Installation Notes
Java
Oracle Java Platform 8 (JDK) must be installed. Installation packages can be downloaded from here:
Java Platform, Standard Edition: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Note: Open-JDK cannot be used because of the lack of JavaFX support.
Java 9/10
Current version of CS-Studio doesn't run on the Java 9/10 VM. If you have installed Java 9 (possibly because you are evaluating or working with it) and Java 8, then you need to tell CS-Studio to used Java 8.
On MacOS X
- Right-click on the ESS CS-Studio.app application and select Show Package Contents menu item;
- Navigate into the
Contents/Eclipse
folder and edit theESS CS-Studio.ini
file; - Before
--launcher.library
add the following two lines:
-vm
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_181.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/bin
where jdk1.8.0_181.jdk
should be replaced by the Java 8 version you have installed.
On CentOS
- Edit the
/opt/cs-studio/ESS CS-Studio.ini
file; - Before
--launcher.library
add the following two lines:
-vm
/usr/java/jdk1.8.0_181/jre/bin
where jdk1.8.0_181
should be replaced by the Java 8 version you have installed.
On Windows (Unsupported Platform)
- Edit the
ESS CS-Studio.ini
file inside the application folder; - Before
--launcher.library
add the following two lines:
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_181\jre\bin\
where jdk1.8.0_181
should be replaced by the Java 8 version you have installed.
Memory
CS-Studio runs pretty well on machine with at least 4 GBytes. If it must be run from inside the ESS DM, at least 8 GBytes are necessary, allocating 4 for the DM.
css-update
The supported method to update CS-Studio in the DM is described here.
Documentation
- Documentation about ESS version of CS-Studio can be found at the ESS CS-Studio homepage.
- Compatibility notes can be found at the CS-Studio Compatibility Notes and Known Bugs page.
Development
Ver. 4.6.1.13
What Is Changed
- CS-Studio Update: Change RAP GEF P2 site to a more standard url.
- Display Builder Fix: Closing the inline editor with ESC on the Display Builder's Overview tree will hide the tree item's icon.
- Display Builder Fix: LEDs not showing their colour in edit mode.
- Display Builder Fix: Autosize in Checkbox and SlideButton.
- Display Builder Fix: Suppress context menu while primary button is down in Spinner and ScrollBar widgets.
- Display Builder Update: Reduce severity of value range message in plot widgets.
- Display Builder Update: Update log scale in XYPlot widget.
- Display Builder Update: Improved range drawing in meters.
- Display Builder Update: Improved performances in Thumbwheel, SlideButton, Gauge, Knob and Meter widgets.
- Display Builder New: Example for table served by Channel Access.
- Display Builder New: Support colour alpha in rules.
- Display Builder New: Represent 'unknown' widget outline.
- Display Builder New: Editor will show warning when changing actions for multiple widgets.
- Data Browser Fix: BOY widget shell NPE.
- Data Browser New: Default value for trace's Request can now be set to RAW or OPTIMIZED inside the
plugin_customization.ini
file.
Production
Ver. 4.6.1.12 (16.01.2019)
Ver. 4.6.1.11 (28.11.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.10 (23.10.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.9 (02.10.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.8 (03.09.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.7 (23.08.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.6 (02.08.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.5 (27.07.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.4 (18.06.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.3 (05.06.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.2 (22.05.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.1 (17.05.2018)
Ver. 4.6.1.0 (27.04.2018)
Ver. 4.5.7.1 (21.03.2018)
Ver. 4.5.7.0 (08.03.2018)
Ver. 4.5.6.1 (13.02.2018)
Ver. 4.5.6.0 (31.01.2018)
Ver. 4.5.1.1 (24.10.2017)
Ver. 4.5.1.0 (28.08.2017)
Ver. 4.5.0.2 (07.08.2017)
Ver. 4.5.0.1 (10.07.2017)
Ver. 4.5.0.0 (22.03.2017)
Ver. 4.4.1.4 (14.03.2017)
Ver. 4.4.1.3 (31.01.2017)
Ver. 4.4.1.2 (16.01.2017)
Ver. 4.4.1.1 (18.10.2016)
Ver. 4.4.1.0 (26.08.2016)
Community Editions
CS-Studion Community Editions (CE).