qtmonitor

qtmonitor

Simple tool for creating a Qt-Dialog with updating values.

The idea behind the project was the necessity to monitor some real-time values on a robotic-prototype. The package allows you to create a simple UI with a lot of values, that are updating constantly at specified intervals, without any knowledge of QT / PySide packages

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Setup

To install qtmonitor use pip or download it from PyPI.

pip install qtmonitor

Example

There is an example module, which demonstrates how to write your own monitor. Feel free to dig down and explore the code. The file is located under you-python-packages-folder/qtmonitor/example.py

To run and see it in action feel free to use following command:

python -m qtmonitor.example

Usage

First of all, you need to create some python methods, which would return the value, you want to track. Here is a simple random int generator method. It will be used to demonstrate the module, there is no practical use for it.

import random

def random_int_value():
    return random.randrange(0, 1000)

The easiest way to create you own monitor is to subclass the qtmonitor.Monitor class

from qtmonitor import Monitor

class MyMonitor(Monitor):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MyMonitor, self).__init__(parent)

Now add at least one group to put your values in:

from qtmonitor import Monitor

class MyMonitor(Monitor):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MyMonitor, self).__init__(parent)

        grp = self.add_group('My group')

Add the values to the group and run the tool. Feel free to use provided run method:

import random
from qtmonitor import Monitor


def random_int_value():
    return random.randrange(0, 1000)


class MyMonitor(Monitor):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(MyMonitor, self).__init__(parent)

        grp = self.add_group('My group')
        grp.add_value('Value', random_int_value)
        grp.add_value('Value 10ms', random_int_value, interval=10)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from qtmonitor import run
    run('My monitor', MyMonitor)