User Guide

• Installation
  • Check your version of python
  • Create a virtual environment
  • Installing the library
• Using the cothread Library
  • Introduction to Cothreads
  • Cothread API
• Using the catools Library
  • Overview
  • Environment Variables
  • Function Reference
  • Working with Values
  • PV and PV_array Classes
• Training: Channel Access with cothread
  • Cothread
  • Cothread catools bindings
  • Preliminaries
  • Example: Printing a PV
  • Testing Speed of caget
  • Exercise: Timing test
  • Shape Polymorphism
  • Example: Monitoring a PV
  • camonitor for Lists of PVs
  • Exercise: camonitor and caput
  • A note on the last exercise
  • Augmented Values
  • Augmented Values are Ordinary
  • Getting Values with Timestamps
  • Example: Gathering Updates
  • Example: Circular Updates Buffer
  • Example: Gathering Arrays
  • Example: Default Error Handling
  • Adjusting the Timeout
  • Catching Errors from caget
  • Catching Errors from caput
  • Cothread and Qt
  • Plotting: Preamble
  • Plotting: An Example
  • Advanced Topics
  • Advanced Topic: Cothreads
  • Creating a Cothread
  • Communicating with Cothreads
  • Example: Using Event
  • Cothread Suspension Points
  • Cothreads and Real Threads
  • Slightly more Realistic Version