Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] (Ned Arnold) · Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:29:28 -0500

> I try to create a custom record, then I use GDCT to show the record. Some 
fields of
> the records is missing, Can somebody tell me where I did wrong?
> Thanks
> Jin

If the fields show up in the "Field Export List" but not in the "Edit 
Attributes" screen, you forgot to assign them to a "promptgroup" in the *.dbd
file. In the following example ...

recordtype(myRecordType) {
        include "dbCommon.dbd" 
        field(VERS,DBF_DOUBLE) {
                prompt("Code Version")
                special(SPC_NOMOD)
        }
        field(SIZE,DBF_DOUBLE) {
                prompt("Bytes/Pixel")
                promptgroup(GUI_INPUTS)
                special(SPC_NOMOD)
        }
}

... the SIZE field will show up in the "Edit Attributes" screen, but VERS
will not. 

See page 29 of the "Application Developer's Guide R3.13.0Beta11" 

If the field does not even show up in the "Field Export List", GDCT must
have choked on the *.dbd file ... Any error messages when you loaded it ?

		Ned

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System