User’s Interface

This section explains some features that are common to most applications built with taurus. This is done from the GUI user point of view (not for developers).

For a detailed list of features of each widget, please refer to the Developer’s Guide

• 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