Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

On 02.11.2012 17:06, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> Looking in the list archives I find a message from 2009 which I
> interpret to mean that VDCT will preserve info() tags which are added
> manually.
>
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/tech-talk/2009/msg00876.php
>
>> Cosylab has upgraded VDCT, starting with v2.6, so that the info field
>> is kept after resaving a VDCT file, using VDCT, that has info fields
>> included.
>
> However, I have empirical evidence that this is not the case for VDCT
> version 2.6.1274.  This is the latest version according to the Cosylab
> page.
>
> http://visualdct.cosylab.com/builds/VisualDCT/
>
> The tag I add is
>
> info( autosaveFields_pass0, "VAL")
>
> Then I start VDCT and make a change to an unrelated record.  When
> saved, the info() tag is absent.  I've tried several variation on the
> quoting, but this has no effect.  I see nothing printed to the console
> and no log message appear.
>
> Does this work for anyone?

Coincidence!

We just found out the very same facts last week.
This also applies to the 3.0 beta version on SourceForge [1], which
actually feels more like pre-alpha.

~Ralph

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/visualdct

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