Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (William Lupton) · Wed, 7 Jan 1998 11:30:05 -1000

Dear all,

Marty wrote:
> First of all this is not a new restriction in 3.13. The limit was always
> there. before 3.13 no error message was issued if the string was too long.
> The error message is somewhat misleading because the truncated string is
> written.

Can we just suppress the warning message?

If we don't want to lose the ability to report on more serious truncations,
can we define a new optional .dbd field that controls whether the warning
is reported on a per-field basis, e.g.

        field(DESC,DBF_STRING) {
                prompt("Descriptor")
                promptgroup(GUI_COMMON)
		truncwarn(0)
                size(29)
        }

with a default truncwarn value of 1? Or does this require changes to internal
data structures that one would rather not change?

William

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System