Actions

Action is the interactive interface to make operations from widget. It can be configured from the "Actions" Property. There are five types of actions that can be associated with any type of widget:

  1. Open another OPI
  2. Write PV
  3. Execute Command: execute command just as execute command in a shell. The output will be displayed in the console.
  4. Execute JavaScript
  5. Open File open a file with the default editor. For example, you can open a databrowser file in databrowser.
  6. Play WAV file
  7. Open Webpage

Invoke Action

In run mode, you can invoke the actions by right clicking a widget and select from the "Actions" submenu. If you selected the option "Hook the first action to the mouse click event on widget" in the actions config dialog, you can simply invoke the first configured action by clicking the widget.