Writing Gui Clients

This page describes how to write GUI clients using the PyQt4 Python library. We assume some familiarity with PyQt, please see this tutorial for an excellent introduction for writing PyQt programs. We explain how to create a LabRAD client that encompasses a graphical user interface containing, buttons, spinboxes, dropdown menus, and any other PyQt widgets. The created clients are similar scripts in that they interface with a server and are able to execute server settings in response to user action i.e pressing a button. In addition, the GUI clients are able subscribe to signals from the server and act in response to these signals being emitted. For these reasons, GUI clients are referred to as asynchronous clients.

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