WidgetsΒΆ

The Display Builder application supports a set of widgets which can be used to create control GUIs. The widgets are organized according to the categories Graphics, Monitors, Controls, Plots, Structure, and Miscellaneous:

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Each category corresponds to an intended use case of the widgets belonging to the category:

Widget Category

Intended Use Case

Graphics

Static graphical elements

Monitors

Displaying values from PVs

Controls

Writing values to PVs

Plots

Plotting PV values

Structure

Grouping widgets and embedding displays

Miscellaneous

3D Viewer, Web Browser