Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Rod Nussbaumer <[email protected]> · Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:27:58 -0800

Hi all.

I response to the recent discussion of the asyn record for invoking IOC

shell commands, I have tried to set up a Capfast configuration for the

asyn record. To do this, I have inspected the asyn record DBD file, and

am extracting the crucial bits to a Capfast symbol file and to the

edb.def file used in the Capfast -> EPICS .db file conversion. In the

DBD file, I see the following snippet:

    field(IFACE,DBF_MENU) {
        prompt("Interface")
        menu(asynINTERFACE)
        special(SPC_MOD)
    }

Since I haven't yet come to a good understanding of the behavior of the

asyn record, I cannot say for sure, but it seems to me that the record's

interface method is a vital configuration issue, and that GUI tools can

only use the IFACE field's configuration if there is also the

	        promptgroup(GUI_DISPLAY)

element added to the DBD file for the IFACE field description.

Is this correct, or do I simply not understand the record and/or the

meaning of the DBD file elements?

Thanks,

Rod Nussbaumer
ISAC Controls, TRIUMF
Vancouver, Canada.

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System