Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Kate Feng <[email protected]> · Fri, 14 Sep 2012 10:07:01 -0400

Hi all,


 Adding arguemnts to the aSub record would facilitate the usage of

the subroutine to

be more globally generic and versatile. The arguments will be used for

the subroutine.

For example, I modified the file src/rec/aSubRecord.dbd as the following

to achieve the

goal in my project. I wish that the addition of the arguments in aSub

record could be

considered in the EPICS 3.14.x branch in addition to the higher one such

as 3.15.

Any pointer regarding what I missed or any consideration ?

diff -Naur  aSubRecord.dbd.orig aSubRecord.dbd

--- aSubRecord.dbd.orig    2011-04-26 16:40:09.000000000 -0400
+++ aSubRecord.dbd    2012-09-14 09:38:24.086888851 -0400
@@ -11,6 +11,28 @@

 recordtype(aSub) {
     include "dbCommon.dbd"
+# ARG1,ARG2,ARG3,and ARG4 added on 9/10/12
+    field(ARG1,DBF_ULONG) {
+        prompt("Subroutine Argument1")
+        promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
+        pp(TRUE)
+    }
+    field(ARG2,DBF_ULONG) {
+        prompt("Subroutine Argument2")
+        promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
+        pp(TRUE)
+    }
+    field(ARG3,DBF_ULONG) {
+        prompt("Subroutine Argument3")
+        promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
+        pp(TRUE)
+    }
+    field(ARG4,DBF_ULONG) {
+        prompt("Subroutine Argument4")
+        promptgroup(GUI_CONVERT)
+        pp(TRUE)
+    }
+# end of ARG1,ARG2,ARG3,and ARG4 add on
     field(VAL,DBF_LONG) {
         prompt("Subr. return value")
         asl(ASL0)



Thanks,
Kate Feng


Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System