TextMonitorNode

A widget representing a text display field

Name	Type	Description
geometry	Rect	A rectangle describing the position and dimensions of the widget
foreground	Color	Widget foreground color
background	Color	Widget background color
border-color	Color	Widget border color
border-width	Number	Widget border thickness in pixels
font	Font	Widget display font
alignment	Alignment	Display text alignment
format	String	Text display format, value is one of “String, Decimal, Engineering, Exponential, Compact, Hexadecimal, Binary”
precision	Number	Number of decimal places to display. When set, overrides the PV’s default precision. -1 by default (uses PV precision)
show-units	Bool	Display engineering units from the PV, False by default
alarm-border	Bool	Change border color based on PV alarm severity, False by default
pv	String	The PV to read data from
visibility	String	A pv that determines the visibility of the widget, visibility is turned off if the PV’s value is zero. This logic is inverted if the !Not tag is used instead of String

- !TextMonitor
    geometry: 5x0 x 120x20
    pv: "$(P)$(R)Description_RBV"
    alignment: CenterRight

A format can be specified to control numeric display:

- !TextMonitor
    geometry: 100x20
    background: *black
    foreground: *alarm_green
    format: "Engineering"
    pv: "$(P)$(R)Pressure"