Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

[email protected] · Wed, 5 Dec 2007 06:36:05 -0600 (CST)

Umashankar -

For strings longer than 40 characters, use a waveform record of type 'char'.  I have used this technic with medm to display long ascii messages ... it works.

   Ned

>Dear Sirs,
>
>I am usuing medm as the user interface. I have some async record in
>string format whose character size is more than 40. I am getting the
>value in precord after modifying the base code for handling strings
>upto 80 characters. But, now my problem is that this data is not
>getting fully displayed in medm. The size is limited upto 40 in medm.
>This also happens in probe too.
>
>Can anybody please suggest a solution for this problem?
>
>Ultimately, I need to display the strings in a message box with
>srcolling facility also. The data is the status of the helium
>liquefier printed in ASCII format through a serial port.
>
>Thanking you
>
>With regards
>
>
>Umashankar Panda
>
>Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
>India.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System