Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mathias Steiner <[email protected]> · Fri, 30 May 2008 09:55:19 -0400

Learned Friends:
I am looking for ways to dynamically create and destroy beamlines by
stringing together individual magnets. That's how we do it from inside
a C program currently, and it works for what we do. Now I'd like to do
it using EPICS records.
All would be well if it were possible to change links -- either .FLNK or
.OUT -- from within a subroutine. I've tried a couple of things without
success. Just pasting the channel name into the "value" field of the
union does not, and probably should not, work.
Assigning a different value to a link by copying an input link doesn't
work either:

psub->flnk = psub->inpb;
This isn't so clear to me, since they are both of type DBLINK. After
all, I can "just" type the value into the .FLNK field of any channel
using edm, and it'll work...
Does anyone have a suggestion? Or a comment?
Thanks in advance
-Mathias

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System