Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Marty Kraimer <[email protected]> · Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:05:52 -0500

Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> 
> Marty Kraimer wrote:
> >
> > "Redman, Russell O." wrote:
> >
> > > Marty, is it worth the bother to back out of the changes you made to add
> > > RAWL and RAWF?  Or are there enough special cases, and sufficient utility in
> > > simulation records to justify retaining RAWL and RAWF?
> >
> > I would rather back out the changes. They have not appeared in any release thus
> > it is easy to do without impacting anyone.
> >
> > I really really do not like to add fields that have limited usage and can be
> > confusing to users. I think RAWF,RAWL fall into this category. It is easy to
> > think or additional fields for many record types that can be useful in special
> > cases. The number of fields will just grow and grow.
> 
> Does this mean that ESLO and EOFF will be made configurable?
> 
> Ben

I will add promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT) to both.
Question. What should special be?
It is currently defined as special(SPC_NOMOD). The question becomes. Should this
field be dynamically configurable. If we remove special(SPC_NOMOD) should we
define asl(ASL0)?

I will throw out a suggestion. For aiRecord.dbd define ESLO and EOFF as

        field(ESLO,DBF_DOUBLE) {
                prompt("Rawto EGU Slope")
                promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
                asl(ASL0)
                interest(2)
                initial("1")
        }
        field(EOFF,DBF_DOUBLE) { 
                prompt("Eng Unit Offset")
                promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
                asl(ASL0)
                interest(2)
        }

For aoRecord.dbd define them as

        field(EOFF,DBF_DOUBLE) {
                prompt("Eng Unit Offset")
                promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
                asl(ASL0)
                interest(2)
        }
        field(ESLO,DBF_DOUBLE) {
                prompt("EGU to Raw Slope")
                promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
                asl(ASL0)
                interest(2)
                initial("1")
        }

Marty

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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