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.

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 Channel value for this widget