Developer’s Guide

Intended audience: developers, Programming language: all

In this section the process of how to write Tango device servers and clients (applications). In addtion to articles listed below you may be interested in Tutorials and HOW-TOs for developers or browse all documents marked for developers.

The section is organized as follows:

• Overview
  • C++ and Python
  • Java
• General guidelines
  • Tango object naming (device, attribute and property)
• 10 things you should know about CORBA
• Tango Client
  • Writing a TANGO client using TANGO C++ APIs
  • TangoATK Programmer’s Guide
  • PyTango - a Python binding to Tango
• Device Servers
  • Introduction to device server
  • TANGO Device Server Guidelines
  • The TANGO device server model
  • Writing a TANGO device server
  • Attribute alarms
  • Enumerated attribute
  • Memorized attribute
  • Forwarded attribute
  • Device polling
  • Generating events in a device server
  • Tango Device in Java
  • PyTango - a Python binding to Tango
• Debugging and Testing
  • Using Tango docker containers
• Advanced
  • Threading
  • Transferring images
  • Device server with user defined event loop
  • Tango Device Server Model
  • Tango REST API
  • The TANGO IDL file : Module Tango
  • Reference part
  • Known issues
• Tango Core C++ Classes Reference Documentation
• Contributing
  • How to work with Tango Controls documentation
  • How to contribute to Tango Controls C++ library (cppTango)