Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:06:15 -0500

Hi Mark,

On Thursday 04 November 2010 20:36:28 Mark Clift wrote:
>
> I have noticed that breakpoint tables in base 3-14-11 require the table
> name to be all numeric characters.  This appears consistent with line 634
> in dbStaticRun.c, where the first non numeric character must be '\0'. 
> However, according to page 105 of the 3-14-11 application developers guide,
> the breakpoint table name can consist of any alpha-numeric characters.  So,
> there seems a problem here. ?  For now, I am renaming my breakpoint tables.

I think I know what might have been confusing you: To be able to select a new 
breakpoint table in the LINR field you have to copy the menuConvert.dbd file 
from base/dbd into your application's App/src directory (where the IOC's .dbd 
file gets created) and add your new table name as a new choice to it.  You can 
also delete any of the type* choices if you don't use them, but don't touch or 
move any of the first three items.

This is a bit of a pain, so I just wrote a blueprint to look at adding the 
table names to menuConvert automatically in future releases.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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