Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (William Lupton) · Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:19:32 -1000

Dear all,

With regard to Andy Foster's VERS proposal, Marty wrote:
> Now if this is changed to
> 
>         field(VERS,DBF_DOUBLE) {
>                 prompt("Version Number") 
>                 promptgroup(GUI_DISPLAY) 
>                 special(SPC_NOMOD)
>                 interest(1)
>                 initial(<version>)
>         }                
> 
> The record developer changes <version> whenever he/she modifies the
> record support.
> Thus the version will be available automatically. If this is done we
> can't put the field in dbCommon.

Aren't DBF_DOUBLE, GUI_DISPLAY and SPC_NOMOD C pre-processor symbols? If
so, 

	initial(<version>)

could become:

	initial(REC_VERSION)

or whatever, and a 

	#define REC_VERSION <version>

could be done before including dbCommon.dbd. Then it _could_ be in
dbCommon. Maybe this (a) won't work and/or (b) isn't much better than
changing the record support code?

William

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System