Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Tim Mooney <[email protected]> · Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:13:41 -0600

re...,

Brian McAllister wrote:
> 
> >>> On 4/1/2003 at 16:32:58 -1000, Bill Cruise wrote:
> 
>   > Has someone developed a "standard" string record that does provide a
>   > monitor for every input?
> 
> This behavior is particularly desirable for soft records.  It would be
> trivial to add a field to stringin/stringout to specify that a monitor
> should be posted every time the record is processed.
> 
> It would also be completely backward compatible with existing databases.
> 
> Does anyone see any reason not to do this ?

It's not hard to imagine this change to the stringout record causing a
problem with save_restore, but if you were to follow the model in the ai
record (i.e., have MDEL and ADEL fields, compared with the result of
strncmp(old,new)), then those who rely on the current behavior could
probably get what they need by specifying the mask DBE_LOG in their call
to ca_add_event().

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Tim Mooney ([email protected]; 630-252-5417)
Advanced Photon Source
APS Operations Division
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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