Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Rock, Judith E." <[email protected]> · Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:59:03 -0700

Hi -
We have a device that returns multiple lines of input from one command.  We're successfully using streamdevice to capture the inputs, which are of mixed type.  The issue at hand is error handling for the float inputs.  Upon error, any of the float fields can return an error string.  I tried setting up an @mismatch for the prototype, and this works...the problem is that the prototype stops processing inputs at the error: subsequent inputs in the list are all invalid which could mask some important conditions.  I also tried a separate prototype for each input with its own @mismatch; however I observed the same behavior: inputs following the error condition were all invalid.

Our solution at the moment is to read everything in as strings and use scalcouts to translate to numbers - that way each input is converted independently.  However, if streamdevice itself has a more elegant way of handling the situation we would be very happy to adopt it!

thanks,
Judy at SLAC

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System