Text Input

Text Input is used to write value to a PV and display the readback PV value. It does not supports multi-line text. It supports parsing String as a Double or Long Integer array.

Operations

Click widget to edit text. Press ESC key or click other place on the OPI at anytime to abort editing. If Multi-line Input property is no, press Enter key to submit text. If Multi-line Input property is yes, press Ctrl+Enter to submit text. Note: Even if you did not change the text, press Enter or Ctrl+Enter will still write the text to PV.

If the Format Type is not String, it allows to write numeric array to numeric array PV with text format like 13 22 33 24.

Special Properties

Besides its own special properties, the widget has all the special properties of TextUpdate.

Confirm Message (confirm_message).
If this is not empty, a confirm dialog will pop up before writing the new value to PV.
Minimum (minimum).
The lower range of the allowed input if PV is numeric type.
Maximum (maximum).
The upper range of the allowed input if PV is numeric type.
Limits From PV (limits_from_pv).
Load the allowed Minimum and Maximum from PV.
Multi-line Input (multiline_input).
Allow inputing multiline.
Selector Type (selector_type).
The type of the selector. Supports File selector and Datetime selector.

Properties only visible to File selector:

File Source (file_source).
The source of the file.It can be workspace file or a file from local file system.
File Return Part (file_return_part).
Which part of the path should be returned. It could be full path, file name and extension or file name only.

Properties only visible to Datetime selector:

Datetime Format (datetime_format).
The format of the datetime. It is an arbitrary combination of yyyy (year), MM (month), dd (day), HH (hour), mm (minute) and ss (seconds).
For example,
yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss would look like 2011-04-26 14:43:00
MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss would look like 04/26/2011 15:04:00
MM/dd/yyyy would look like 04/26/2011.

Text Input

Operations

Special Properties

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