Control UI Toolkit Introduction

Control UI Toolkit demo applications

This document is intended for first time developers of the Control UI Toolkit (CUT).

CUT is build using Qt a graphical rendering library, and Taurus as a powerful Model-View-Controller (MVC) layer that allows you to bind datapoints in the control system servers and services to widgets in your graphical application.

Here you can learn the basics of Qt, Taurus, how to quickly create basic UIs, and how to start the definition of UI in a declarative manner.

All the contents has examples that you can try on your own.

Table of Contents

• 1. Definitions
• 2. Conventions
• 3. Using the VM
• 4. Python
• 5. Qt
  • 5.1. Signals - part 1
  • 5.2. Layouts
  • 5.3. Signals - part 2
• 6. Taurus
  • 6.1. Model View Controller Pattern
  • 6.2. URI
  • 6.3. Taurus Model
    • 6.3.1. Model Plugins
  • 6.4. TaurusLabel
    • 6.4.1. TaurusLabels and Fragments
  • 6.5. TaurusForm
  • 6.6. TaurusPlot and TaurusTrend
  • 6.7. TaurusLauncherButton
  • 6.8. Taurus Capabilities
    • 6.8.1. Evaluation Model
    • 6.8.2. Command Line Tool
  • 6.9. Qt and UI Files
  • 6.10. Widgets
    • 6.10.1. Display Widgets
    • 6.10.2. Input Widgets
    • 6.10.3. Plotting Widgets
• 7. Contents of the example OLDB
• 8. Debugging
  • 8.1. Taurus Log Level
  • 8.2. OLDB GUI
  • 8.3. GDB
  • 8.4. Python faulthandler
  • 8.5. Python Debugger
  • 8.6. Profiler