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Josh Blum edited this page Sep 6, 2014 · 23 revisions

Launching the GUI

PothosGui should be in your executable search path. Open up a terminal and type PothosGui and hit enter:

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The following window should appear:

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Inserting a block

The block tree is a dockable widget that allows the user to browse through the available processing blocks, read documentation, and to add blocks to the topology editor.

  • The block tree is a dock widget, and can be moved and re-positioned within the main window.
  • If the block tree widget is not visible, make sure that "Block Tree" is checked under the view menu.
  • Block can be added via drag-and-drop, double clicking on a block, or clicking the block tree's "Add" button.
  • To search the block tree for a given block, enter keywords into the search bar at the top of the block tree.
  • Hit the Ctrl+F key sequence at any time to make the block tree visible, and give focus to the search bar.

Creating connections

  • connecting streaming ports
  • Connecting signals and slots

Using widget blocks

Graph pages and breakers

Executing the design

The host explorer

Creating affinity zones