While writing a measurement program with PyMeasure, I developed a couple of features that I would like to share with the community. They are not very user friendly, so I provide the scripts "as-is" and you can use them at you own risk. I encourage you to first understand the code before implementing it in your program.

If there are a lot of inputs in a program, PyMeasure provides a scrollbar (see the inputs_in_scrollarea argument) for when they exceed the window boundaries. I found it more practical to group the inputs into the tabs of a QTabWidget based on their purpose (for me those were instrument setup, experiment execution, and experiment parameter).

This feature is implemented with a new TabbedInputsWidget and a ManagedWindow_tabbed that is used to create the main window. The window's inputs argument must be set as a dictionary with the keys defining the tab names and the values being lists of inputs for the respective tab. Providing a normal list instead of a dictionary reverts back to the standard behavior. The tab_start argument of the window allows to define which tab is displayed initially (it must be a key from the inputs dictionary).

This feature was implemented for PyMeasure version 0.13.1 and the new classes contain a lot of copied code from their parent classes (mainly from ManagedWindowBase and ManagedWindow). I do not have the time to check the compatibility to the new 0.14.0 release - if any of the copied code was changed, the new classes probably have to be re-implemented.

Below is a zip file containing an MWE for tabbed inputs. The files are

• MWE_TabbedInputs_widget.py: Defines the TabbedInputsWidget based on InputsWidget.
• MWE_TabbedInputs_window.py: Defines the window ManagedWindow_tabbed that allows for the use of tabbed inputs.
• MWE_TabbedInputs.py: A minimal working example , that shows the functionality of the widget.

MWE_TabbedInputs.zip