Configuring the Development Environment

1. Create a virtual environment with conda or use a preexisting environment.

2. Activate the environment. All following steps assume that you are inside this enviornment.

3. Install pydm, pyqt, and pcdsdevices from the conda-forge channel with conda install -c conda-forge pydm pyqt pcdsdevices

4. Clone a copy of pcdswidgets from here https://github.com/pcdshub/pcdswidgets

5. Move into the newly cloned pcdswidgets directory and run pip install -e . to perform a development install of pcdswidgets.

6. In order to ensure that designer loads the new widgets add the newly cloned pcdswidgets directory to the environment variable PYQTDESIGNERPATH. For example, use export PYQTDESIGNERPATH=$PWD:$PYQTDESIGNERPATH after cd’ing into your pcdswidgets directory.

7. Setup of the environment is now complete. You should be able to make changes to your newly cloned pcdswidgets directory and see those changes reflected in designer.