Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"J. Lewis Muir" <[email protected]> · Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:34:20 -0500

On 7/16/09 12:46 AM, Patrick Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> I should add one other thing to my previous question of:
> "What is the best way to write a program in C that has functions which
> do reads/writes on process variables that are passed to them as
> parameters?"
> 
> I would also like to be able to tell if a PV has changed. Basically I
> would like to use the same functionality as the sequencer, but use calls
> to functions instead of states.

Hi, Patrick.

Daron Chabot's suggestion of looking at caget/caput/camonitor is good.
They use the CA library in EPICS base.

Also, maybe you already know this, but you can call C functions from the
sequencer.  So, depending on what you want to do, you might still be
able to use the sequencer.

Lewis

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J. Lewis Muir
Software Engineer
CARS/IMCA-CAT

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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