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

Special Properties

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

• 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.

See Also

• Properties Common to PV Widgets
• Properties Common to All Widgets