Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Owens, PH \(Peter\)" <[email protected]> · Fri, 18 Nov 2005 10:09:44 -0000

There is no need to have the device support distributing the values.

It is simpler to do this via database processing
and have the other records extract the values for 
themselves from the original input record.

Pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Rekow [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 17 November 2005 15:38
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: record/device support general style question
> 
> 
> My way so far is another: There is one AsynDriver-powered record
> (stringin) which retrieves and holds the status string. That 
> value is read
> by a longin record via dbGetField() in a standard device 
> support, which
> extracts the information and distributes to all the other 
> relevant records
> via dbPutField(). Thus these other records don't need any 
> device/record
> support implementation themselves but are set remotely. 
> Unfortunately this
> complicates handling the alarm/invalid states of these records.
> 
> So the question is:
> Would it be better to have already my AsynDriver-powered record, which
> reads the status bytes, distributing the values to the 
> different records
> via dbPutField()?
> Alternatively I like the idea of only one device support 
> implementation
> for several records which is flexible using the INP field as a
> parameter...
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> What could be more 'stylish'?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jens
> 
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System