Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]> · Fri, 4 Aug 2017 12:47:59 +0000

Hi:

> You're a star....working beautifully  on my system now...thanks a million.
Good.

>Your 'select.py' script below is interesting and I would like to know (if you have the time) the meaning of:
>      (1) macros = widget.getPropertyValue("macros").getCopy()    # cannot find this function
>      (2) macros.put("PV", "sim://sine")                                               # I assume here you set the macro to the PV name
>      (3) widget.setPropertyValue("macros", macros)                        # and add macro to widget (parent macros?)

Scripts are meant to allow doing things that were not foreseen.
The Display Builder has a NavigationTabs widget that allows changing the content of an embedded container, i.e. the file and macros.
BOY doesn't have that. With a script one can hack around that, but then you're somewhat on your own, because there's no documented API, and the methods that you find by looking in the source code can change, so then you need to update your script.

In this case I started by checking the widget class in the script:
  print(widget.__class__.__name__)
I knew that I wanted to update the macros, so I check that:
  print(widget.getPropertyValue("macros").__class__.__name__)
I see that it's a https://github.com/ControlSystemStudio/cs-studio/blob/master/applications/opibuilder/opibuilder-plugins/org.csstudio.opibuilder/src/org/csstudio/opibuilder/util/MacrosInput.java , and in there I find that it has a getCopy() etc.

-Kay

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System