Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Mark Rivers" <[email protected]> · Mon, 19 May 2008 23:13:27 -0500

For stringin records or the DESC field you should use the "string" datatype in the sequencer, i.e.

string name2; assign name2 to "{P}{M}S_NAME"; monitor name2;

Mark

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Szalata, Zenon M.
Sent: Mon 5/19/2008 10:48 PM
To: EPICS Techtalk
Subject: Problem with SEQ

I am using seq-R2-0-11 with epics R3-14-9.  I have written a simple sequencer code in which I tried to get a value from a stringin record.  For testing I have these two definitions:

char name1[SPATH]; assign name1 to "{P}{M}WF_NAME"; monitor name1;
char name2[SPATH]; assign name2 to "{P}{M}S_NAME"; monitor name2;

Where name1 is assigned to a waveform record and name2 is assigned to a stringin record.  Both these records are given some character string values.  I can obtain the value from the waveform record but I get nothing from the stringin record.  In each case I use pvGet function.  This test was precipitated when my sequencer code failed to get the string from the DESC field of a longin record.

Is it not possible to get an ASCII coded string either from a stringin record or the DESC field from any record into a sequencer program?  It seems to me that it should be possible since it works with caget!  Am I overlooking something simple and basic? How can this be done?  Can anyone help, please?

Thanks in advance,
Zen

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System