TaurusMainWindow

class TaurusMainWindow(parent=None, designMode=False, splash=None)

A Taurus-aware QMainWindow with several customizations:

• It takes care of (re)storing its geometry and state (see loadSettings())

• Supports perspectives (programmatic access and, optionally, accessible by user), and allows defining a set of “factory settings”

• It provides a customizable splashScreen (optional)

• Supports spawning remote consoles and remote debugging

• Supports full-screen mode toggling

• Supports adding launchers to external applications

• It provides a statusBar with an optional heart-beat LED

• The following Menus are optionally provided and populated with basic actions:

  • File (accessible by derived classes as self.fileMenu)

  • View (accessible by derived classes as self.viewMenu)

  • Taurus (accessible by derived classes as self.taurusMenu)

  • Tools (accessible by derived classes as self.toolsMenu)

  • Help (accessible by derived classes as self.helpMenu)

Import from taurus.qt.qtgui.container as:

from taurus.qt.qtgui.container import TaurusMainWindow

FILE_MENU_ENABLED = True

Whether to show the File menu

FULLSCREEN_TOOLBAR_ENABLED = True

Whether to show the Full Screen Toolbar

HEARTBEAT = 1500

Heartbeat LED blinking semi-period in ms. Set to None for not showing it

HELP_MENU_ENABLED = True

Whether to show the Help menu

LOGGER_WIDGET_ENABLED = True

Whether add a dockwidget with the logger widget

SAVE_SETTINGS_ON_CLOSE = None

Whether to save settings before closing. Set to None to ask the user

SPLASH_LOGO_NAME = 'large:TaurusSplash.png'

Name of logo image for splash screen. Set to None for disabling splash

SPLASH_MESSAGE = 'Initializing Main window...'

Message for splash screen

TAURUS_MENU_ENABLED = True

Whether to show the Taurus menu

TOOLS_MENU_ENABLED = True

Whether to show the Tools menu

USER_PERSPECTIVES_ENABLED = True

Whether to show actions for user perspectives

VIEW_MENU_ENABLED = True

Whether to show the View menu

addExternalAppLauncher(extapp, toToolBar=True, toMenu=True)

Adds launchers for an external application to the Tools Menu and/or to the Tools ToolBar.

Parameters:

• extapp (ExternalAppAction or list<str>) – the external application to be launched passed as a ExternalAppAction (recommended because it allows to specify custom text and icon) or, alternatively, as a list of strings (sys.argv- like) that will be passed to subprocess.Popen().

• toToolBar (bool) – If True (default) a button will be added in the Tools toolBar

• toMenu (bool) – If True (default) an entry will be added in the Tools Menu, under the “External Applications” submenu

See also

ExternalAppAction

addLoggerWidget(hidden=True)

adds a QLoggingWidget as a dockwidget of the main window (and hides it by default)

applyPendingChanges()

basicTaurusToolbar()

returns a QToolBar with few basic buttons (most important, the logo)

Returns:

Return type:

QToolBar

checkSingleInstance(key=None)

Tries to connect via a QLocalSocket to an existing application with the given key. If another instance already exists (i.e. the connection succeeds), it means that this application is not the only one

closeEvent(event)

This event handler receives widget close events

contextMenuEvent(event)

Reimplemented to avoid deprecation warning related to: https://gitlab.com/taurus-org/taurus/-/issues/905

createFileMenu()

adds a “File” Menu

createHelpMenu()

adds a “Help” Menu

createPerspectivesToolBar()

adds a Perspectives ToolBar

createTaurusMenu()

adds a “Taurus” Menu

createToolsMenu()

adds a “Tools” Menu

createViewMenu()

adds a “View” Menu

deleteExternalAppLauncher(action)

Remove launchers for an external application to the Tools Menu and/or to the Tools ToolBar.

Parameters:

extapp (ExternalAppAction) – the external application to be removed passed as a ExternalAppAction

exportSettingsFile(fname=None)

copies the current settings file into the given file name.

Parameters:

fname (str) – name of output file. If None given, a file dialog will be shown.

getFactorySettingsFileName()

returns the file name of the “factory settings” (the ini file with default settings). The default implementation returns “<path>/<appname>.ini”, where <path> is the path of the module where the main window class is defined and <appname> is the application name (as obtained from QApplication).

Returns:

the absolute file name.

Return type:

str

getHeartbeat()

returns the heart beat interval

getHelpManualURI()

getPerspectivesList(settings=None)

Returns the list of saved perspectives

Parameters:

settings (QSettings or None) – a QSettings object. If None given, the default one returned by getQSettings() will be used

Returns:

the list of the names of the currently saved perspectives

Return type:

QStringList

getQSettings()

Returns the main window settings object. If it was not previously set, it will create a new QSettings object following the Taurus convention i.e., it using Ini format and userScope)

Returns:

the main window QSettings object

Return type:

QSettings

classmethod getQtDesignerPluginInfo()

Returns pertinent information in order to be able to build a valid QtDesigner widget plugin.

The dictionary returned by this method should contain at least the following keys and values:

• ‘module’ : a string representing the full python module name (ex.: ‘taurus.qt.qtgui.base’)

• ‘icon’ : a string representing valid resource icon (ex.: ‘designer:combobox.png’)

• ‘container’a bool telling if this widget is a container widget or

  not.

This default implementation returns the following dictionary:

{ 'group'     : 'Taurus [Unclassified]',
  'icon'      : 'logos:taurus.png',
  'container' : False }

Returns:

a map with pertinent designer information

Return type:

dict

getTangoHost()

heartbeat

returns the heart beat interval

helpManualURI

importSettingsFile(fname=None)

loads settings (including importing all perspectives) from a given ini file. It warns before overwriting an existing perspective.

Parameters:

fname (str) – name of ini file. If None given, a file dialog will be shown.

loadPerspective(name=None, settings=None)

Loads the settings saved for the given perspective. It emits a ‘perspectiveChanged’ signal with name as its parameter

Parameters:

• name (str) – name of the perspective

• settings (QSettings or None) – a QSettings object. If None given, the default one returned by getQSettings() will be used

loadSettings(settings=None, group=None, ignoreGeometry=False, factorySettingsFileName=None)

restores the application settings previously saved with saveSettings().

Note

This method should be called explicitly from derived classes after all initialization is done

Parameters:

• settings (QSettings or None) – a QSettings object. If None given, the default one returned by getQSettings() will be used

• group (str) – a prefix that will be added to the keys to be loaded (no prefix by default)

• ignoreGeometry (bool) – if True, the geometry of the MainWindow won’t be restored

• factorySettingsFileName (str) – file name of a ini file containing the default settings to be used as a fallback in case the settings file is not found (e.g., the first time the application is launched after installation)

model

Returns the model name for this component.

Parameters:

key (object) – the model key. Defaults to first element of .modelKeys

Returns:

the model name.

Return type:

str

modelChanged

newQSettings()

Returns a settings taurus-specific QSettings object. The returned QSettings object will comply with the Taurus defaults for storing application settings (i.e., it uses Ini format and userScope)

Returns:

a taurus-specific QSettings object

Return type:

QSettings

onIncommingSocketConnection()

Slot to be called when another application/instance with the same key checks if this application exists.

Note

This is a dummy implementation which just logs the connection and discards the associated socket You may want to reimplement this if you want to act on such connections

onShowManual(anchor=None)

Shows the User Manual in a dockwidget

perspectiveChanged

removePerspective(name=None, settings=None)

removes the given perspective from the settings

Parameters:

• name (str) – name of the perspective

• settings (QSettings or None) – a QSettings object. If None given, the default one returned by getQSettings() will be used

resetHeartbeat()

resets the heartbeat interval

resetHelpManualURI()

resetPendingChanges()

resetQSettings()

equivalent to setQSettings(None)

resetTangoHost()

savePerspective(name=None)

Stores current state of the application as a perspective with the given name

Parameters:

name (str) – name of the perspective

saveSettings(group=None)

saves the application settings (so that they can be restored with loadSettings())

Note

this method is automatically called by default when closing the window, so in general there is no need to call it from derived classes

Parameters:

group (str) – a prefix that will be added to the keys to be saved (no prefix by default)

saveSettingsFile()

Save the current settings into default file.

setHeartbeat(interval)

sets the interval of the heartbeat LED for the window. The heartbeat is displayed by a Led in the status bar unless it is disabled by setting the interval to 0

Parameters:

interval (int) – heart beat interval in millisecs. Set to 0 to disable

setHelpManualURI(uri)

setQSettings(settings)

sets the main window settings object

Parameters:

settings (QSettings or None)

See also

getQSettings()

setTangoHost(host)

showEvent(event)

This event handler receives widget show events

showHelpAbout()

showQuality

Returns if showing the quality as a background color

Returns:

True if showing the quality or False otherwise

Return type:

bool

splashScreen()

returns a the splashScreen

Returns:

Return type:

QSplashScreen

tangoHost

updatePerspectivesMenu()

re-checks the perspectives available to update self.perspectivesMenu

Note

This method may need be called by derived classes at the end of their initialization.

Returns:

the updated perspectives menu (or None if self.USER_PERSPECTIVES_ENABLED is False)

Return type:

QMenu

useParentModel

(deprecated))