Hi:
On 12/1/10 11:58 , "John Dobbins" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I use the Data Browser -> Inspect Samples feature I see that for
> small values (e.g. 1e-9) the value is displayed as 0.00
.. because it's using the precision that was sent with the data when it has
to format the number as text.
EPICS/Channel Access just provides a precision number, no hint like
'use decimal' or 'use exponential notation', so it's always decimal.
> The same issue applies to annotations added to plots.
Right.
> Is there a way to fix this?
I don't know. Maybe somebody has a good idea?
Fix EPICS/Channel Access so that it provides more formatting detail?
Ignore the 'precision', because nobody ever configures the EPICS record PREC
fields anyway? But then how do you know what format to use?
Add a bunch of additional formatting options to the annotations, sample
inspector, ...? What should that look like to be convenient to use?
Several GUI elements like a "Format" drop-down, a "precision" field, a "with
units?" check box, a "with alarm state?" check box?
Or a format string that can handle all that, something like "##.###e###
{units}" that yet needs to be invented?
For now it's using the precision in a decimal format because that was most
straight forward to implement.
Thanks,
-Kay
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