TAURUS – TANGO Graphical User Interface Library Open Source Project

What is it?

TAURUS is a library for connecting client side applications (command-line interfaces and graphical user interfaces) to TANGO device servers, mainly developed by CELLS Alba Synchrotron Controls Section. TAURUS is built on top of PyTango which is a python binding for the Tango library. It provides an abstraction layer that allows TANGO to be accessed in a pythonic, object oriented way. For the GUI part, TAURUS is built on top of the graphical library PyQt which is a python binding for Qt.

The goals of this library are:

• Provide a simple Tango API to the end-user application

• Speed up development of tango based applications

• Provide a standardized look-and-feel

In many aspects, TAURUS follows the same approach as the TANGO Java Application Tool Kit: Tango ATK. If you know ATK, TAURUS will look familiar.

The TAURUS library is divided into two parts: the core module which handles all interaction with PyTango and the Qt module which provides a collection of widgets that can be used inside any PyQt based GUI.