Re: [Tauruslib-users] [TaurusDesiner]

[Carlos P. <cpa...@ce...>]

Hi,

The taurusdesigner is just the standard designer with an extended catalog of 
(taurus) widgets.

Some taurus widgets (but not all) will have a `model` property that you can 
set directly in the designer (e.g. you can add a TaurusLabel to your widget in 
taurusdesigner and then look for its "model" property in the property editor 
and set it to "/sys/tg_test/1/ampli"). Then, when you run your widget (not 
within designer) the label will be updated with the changes in the given 
attribute.

... but I personally tend to set the models programmatically, when I do the 
rest of the logic, using the `.setModel()` setter that all Taurus widgets 
have.

Note that there is no list of available tango attributes in the designer (your 
development machine may not even have access to the same Tango host as your 
production machine, so the utility of this would be rather limited).

Instead, many widgets (forms, plots, etc) may allow you to change their models 
(e.g. the tango attributes they are connected to) at run time, by using the 
ModelChooser widget and/or drag&drop.

Finally: if you are starting with Taurus Programming, consider using the 
TaurusGUI framework and only using taurusdesigner to create specific widgets 
that you then use from a TaurusGUI.

Carlos

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 2:59:12 PM CEST gu...@la... wrote:
> Dear taurus-members,
> 
> I have some difficulties to understand how one should use the taurusdesiner.
> Comparing to the « normal » Qt designer there are many new taurus widgets
> apps. My question is that I do not know how to attach a button, a plot etc
> to a tango variable … for example to /sys/tg_test/1 … If I use Jdraw for
> example, the list of tango variables appear on the left side of the panel.
> 
> 
> Many thanks for your help,
> 
> Cheers,
> Hayg


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