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Subject: Re: Add choice to dbd file
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruno Santos <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:05:41 -0500
Hi Emmanuel,

On 2013-04-22 Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, how does epics knows that "60 seconds" is actually
> 60 * 1 second.  In other words, what if I write in my dbd file
>   choice(menuScan60_second,"1 minute")
> or
>   choice(menuScan1_minute,"1 minute")
> Why are those entries different from
>   choice(menuScan60_second,"60 second")

Eric's answer was correct for EPICS versions up to 3.14.  With 3.15 though you 
can write any of these and it'll understand you, because the code that parses 
the periodic choice strings looks at the units as well as the number:

    choice(menuScan1_hour,      "1 hour")
    choice(menuScan0_5_hours, "0.5 hours")
    choice(menuScan15_minutes, "15 minutes")
    choice(menuScan1_minute,    "1 minute")
    choice(menuScan5_seconds,   "5 seconds")
    choice(menuScan2_seconds,   "2")  # seconds if no units given
    choice(menuScan1_second,    "1 second")
    choice(menuScan2_Hertz,     "2 Hertz")
    choice(menuScan10_Hertz,   "10 Hz")

English only though I'm afraid, and adding units involves editing the code so 
I don't recommend that.  You will get a warning if the scan delay is too small 
for the OS.

- Andrew
-- 
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary
depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair

References:
Add choice to dbd file Bruno Santos
Re: Add choice to dbd file Andrew Johnson
RE: Add choice to dbd file Emmanuel Mayssat

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