Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ned Arnold <[email protected]> · Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:22:57 -0500 (CDT)

> Dear All,
> 
> Does the "wait" record work under 3.13.4?
> 
> I noticed that the support for this is included in the distrubution
> but is commented out of the default "base.dbd" and "baseLIBOBJS".

Andy,

I don't know about 3.13.4, but it looks like it disappears altogether (in base)
in 3.14.0alpha2. I would strongly recommend converting wait records to
calcout records. The wait record was developed before "dynamic link fields"
existed so it uses different field types (strings) to specify input links 
and it has its own library of CA routines (recDynLink). All this should be 
left behind and the calcout record should be used (which implements things 
using standard system software).

	Ned

> 
> I uncommented it in my build but I'm getting some unexpected
> results from using it.
> 
> Is the "calcout" record a replacement for the "wait" record in 3.13?
> 
> If so, then I expect moving an application from 3.12->3.13
> will mean I either have to replace all instances of "wait" with a
> "calcout" or take a closer look at why the "wait" isn't doing as
> I expect. Can anyone comment on similiar problems?
> 
> Does anyone have a Capfast symbol for the "calcout" record?
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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