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"Williams Jr., Ernest L." <[email protected]> · Fri, 2 Nov 2012 10:26:18 -0700

Indeed, it did work 

Cheers
Ernest

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On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:16 AM, "Tim Mooney" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matej sent a message to Ernest Williams on this topic, cc:ing some others including me.  I think nobody noticed that the message never got out on tech-talk.  I have not tried build 1278, but Ernest said it worked for him.
> 
> ---start---
> Hi,
> 
>>> Try this patch...
> 
> I've applied the patch to the latest version. JAR and src are available at:
> http://users.cosylab.com/~msekoranja/vdct/
> 
>> Mike Zelazny found another issue with VDCT and the info field.
>> 
>> If we copy a record containing the info field to another record, the info field is also missing.
>> 
>> That is the info field does not survive a copy operation in VDCT.  Can you address this one as well?
> 
> I've implemented support for this.
> 
>> ==============================================================================
>> The next step for us would be to include full support for the info field in VDCT.
>> What kind of effort would that be?  I will try and find the funding for that.  :)
> 
> Depends what you want. Do you want undo or not? How complex UI it is? :)
> 
> But from head would say something like one week of work.
> 
> Matej
> 
> ---end---
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ralph Lange" <[email protected]>
> To: "EPICS Tech-Talk" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, November 2, 2012 11:47:20 AM
> Subject: Re: vdct and info tags
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
> Software Services Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab
> 

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