Widget Property Types

Each type of widget has a number of properties. Each property is one of a set of types.

Types are useful for:

• parsing display files of different formats
• checking objects to be rendered and reporting problems
• providing an editor

For these reasons, we need more than TypeScript types available so that we can have access to these types at runtime. PropTypes is the way for checking types in React without TypeScript, but the combination of PropTypes and TypeScript can be a bit clunky.

Types in existing applications

Display Builder	Opibuilder	Required?	Notes
Boolean	Boolean	✔
Integer	Integer		TypeScript integer?
Double	Double	✔
Long			TypeScript integer?
String	String	✔
Enum	Combo	✔	We need one enum type
	StringList
Color	Color	✔
Font	Font	✔
Actions	Actions	✔
Rules	Rules	✔
Macros	Macros	✔
Scripts	Scripts
PVName	PVName	✔
Filename	FilePath
Points	PointList
ColorMap
Insets			Offset inside container
	PVValue		Unclear
	UnchangeableString		Unclear
	Matrix
	Complex
	FilePathWithFilter
	StringTable
	UnsaveableList
	Version