Widgets ======= Organization ------------ PyDM Widgets are divided into 5 main categories: - Display Widgets Widgets used for visualization of channels such as Label, Byte Indicator, Image Viewer, Symbol and others. - Input Widgets Widgets used to interact with a channel and write to it, such as Line Edit, Push Button, Combo Box, Checkbox, among others. - Plot Widgets Widgets used for data visualization and plotting. Currently we offer three plot types: - Time Plot Plot scalar values versus time. - Waveform Plot Plot waveform (array) values versus either array index, or another waveform (array) of the same length. - Scatter Plot Plot one scalar channel versus a different scalar channel, adding each new data point to a ring buffer. - Container Widgets Widgets that group or wrap other widgets (like Frame, Tab Widget and Embedded Display) are part of this category. - Drawing Widgets Widgets used to display static shapes such as Rectangle, Triangle, Circle, Image, among others. Common Properties ----------------- All PyDM Widgets will have the same set of base properties. Not every widget uses all of them. As an example, the PyDMEnumComboBox makes no use of the ``precision`` part of the base properties. ===================== ==== ======================================================================== Property Type Description ===================== ==== ======================================================================== alarmSensitiveContent bool Whether or not the content will be affected by an alarm state alarmSensitiveBorder bool Whether or not the border will be affected by an alarm state precisionFromPV bool Whether or not to use the precision information from the PV precision int Precision to be used if precisionFromPV is ``False`` showUnits bool Whether or not to display the engineering units information channel str The :ref:`Channel ` value for this widget ===================== ==== ======================================================================== Widget Set ---------- For a complete list of widgets as well as their user-level and API documentation please refer to the `PyDM Widgets `_ section of PyDM documentation.