User’s Guide

• Introduction
• Getting started
  • Installing
    • Installing with pip (platform-independent)
    • Linux (Debian-based)
    • Installing in a conda environment (platform-independent)
  • Working from Git source directly (in develop mode)
  • Dependencies
• User's Interface
  • Color meaning
    • Taurus Device state colors
    • Taurus Attribute Value Quality colors
    • Tango-specific Device state colors
  • Forms
    • TaurusForm as a stand-alone application
    • The widgets used for different types of models
    • Changing the contents of a form
    • Drag and Drop support
    • Compact Mode
    • Writing to attributes
  • Model Chooser
  • Plots
    • TaurusPlot as a Stand-alone application
    • Working with two Y scales
    • TaurusPlot context menu
    • Zooming and panning
    • Plot Configuration dialog
    • Choosing what is plotted
    • Storing and recovering current configuration
    • Obtaining information about the plotted values
    • Exporting and printing the data
    • Customizing the titles of the curves
    • Date/time support
  • TaurusTrend User’s Interface
    • TaurusTrend as a stand-alone application
    • Timestamp VS “event number” mode
    • The Fixed-range X scale
    • Using a spectrum as a collection of scalar values
    • Accessing archived values
    • Forced read of attributes
    • Known limitations
  • Spectrograms (2D trends)
  • Images
    • TaurusImageDialog as a stand-alone application
  • Array Editor
  • Synoptics
  • TaurusPanel & TaurusDevicePanel
    • TaurusDevicePanel as a stand-alone application
    • TaurusPanel as a stand-alone application
  • TaurusGui
    • Launching TaurusGUI
    • General structure of a TaurusGUI application
    • Re-arranging panels (moving, resizing, hiding,…)
    • Creating custom panels
    • Perspectives
    • Synoptic panels
    • External Application Launchers
    • Sardana integration (Macroserver & Pool)
    • Examples of TaurusGui based applications
    • Known Issues
  • TaurusDemo
    • Taurus Demo Application
  • Logs
  • Configurations
    • Taurus Configuration Browser Application
• Screenshots