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Actually, when I ported the tandem controls to EPICS, I modified a
couple of the
standard records (ai, ao, mbbiDirect, mbboDirect) to be able to
manipulate the scan value inside
the record's own code. The remote I/O throughput was too low to have all
the records scan at
a rate fast enough to make I/O sufficiently responsive during beam
tuning. In the old system
(no network), several process variables could be assigned to knobs and
meters which would
cause them to be processed at a higher scan rate. So I used the same
scheme. I added a
fastscan and slowscan field to the database along with several fields to
manage the assignment
operation. When the PV was "assigned" (to a knob or meter, in this
case), an assignment reference
count was incremented. When deassigned, the count was decremented. When
the count became
non-zero or zero, the scan field got the value of fastscan or slowscan
respectively. In this case
I obviously needed the record to manage the scan value rather than some
external agent.
Ain't EPICS wonderful.
John Sinclair
Mark Rivers wrote:
I think it would be a bad idea for a record to change the SCAN field.
That is something that you should let the database designer do. They
may want to use your record in ways you never thought of.
However, if you really want your record to process again when something
happens then the record code can request reprocessing without changing
the SCAN field. There are several ways to do this (scanOnce,
processRequestProcessCallback) depending on the application. Look at
the Application Developer's Guide.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Heinrich du Toit
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 9:05 AM
To: TechTalk EPICS
Subject: Scan question
Can I change the SCAN field at runtime?
E.g. inside my own custom record.
Some devices normally needs only be scanned say once a sec or every 5
secs. But then when you change the value you want the scanned
faster at
say 0.2 secs.
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