EPICS Re: One button -> two actions with dm?

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Subject:	Re: One button -> two actions with dm?
From:	[email protected] (Steve Lewis)
To:	[email protected], [email protected]
Date:	Fri, 14 Jun 96 13:52:08 PDT

> From: [email protected]
> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 08:03:05 MST
> 
> How hard is it to set up a button on a dm screen that would perform
> two sequential actions on a database?  We occasionally need to write
> two values sequentially to the same field of a record.

I think if you put the two values for PRESS and RELEASE on a message
button, it would accomplish what you want.  I have done this to allow
manually "holding" a field temporarily at an alternate value and then
restoring it.

Steve Lewis

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