Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Wed, 04 Feb 1998 07:30:35 -0600

William Lupton wrote:
> 
> Marty,
> 
>   I raised this the other week and I thought you might have an opinion.
> I had misunderstood what was happening at first but it still seems
> strange that processing a PP (DB) output link to a Passive calc record
> results in:
> 
> a) posting a monitor with the pushed value
> 
> b) processing the record and (typically) posting a monitor with a
>    _different_ value
> 
> So I was wondering what the rationale behind having the VAL field's
> PP attribute FALSE on some record types is. It would seem more logical
> always to set it TRUE (but that might break some existing code I suppose).
> 
>   Thanks,
> 
>   William

I looked and the following record types do not have PP(TRUE) set for the
VAL field.

calc, calcout, event, fanout, histogram, pal, pulseCounter, pulseDelay,
scan, and wait.

It seem reasonable to set PP(TRUE) on the VAL field of all record types.
Can anyone see a problem if we do this?

Marty Kraimer

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System