Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:21:39 +0200

Hm...

Yet another configuration file?
To me this sounds more like a case for info tags in the database.

~Ralph

On 20.06.2013 16:15, Kate Feng wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
>     Would it be easier to use a file name to specify the records that
> needed to be reset/restore
> at reconnection, instead of using 'PINI' ?  The filename could be
> specified via prosilicaConfig().
> For example:
> prosilicaConfig(("$(PORT)", 192.168.0.20, 50,
> 0,"prosilicaConn.rec","P=13PS1:,R=cam1:")
>
>     The advantage is that the file could be modified even after IOC is
> initialized.
> The file would be similar to the format of auto_settings.sav file, but
> one could specify the mode of
> reconnection at the beginning of the file. The option of mode could
> be: : 0) the specified default value,
> 1) the value from save/restore, if available, otherwise take the
> default, 2) read from current camera
> setting.
>
> For example: prosilicaConn.rec
>
> Mode 0
> $(P):$(R):Gain 0
> $(P):$(R):Acquire 0
> $(P):$(R):FrameType 0
> $(P):$(R):ImageMode 2
> $(P):$(R):TriggerMode 0
>
> .......
>
>      Just some thoughts.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Kate
>
>
> On 06/18/2013 04:16 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> Hi Lewis,
>>
>>>> What are the intended meanings of the other values of PINI and
>>>> where is that documented?
>>> Hi, Mark.
>>>
>>> The one place I know of is in the release notes:
>>>
>>>   http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12-docs/RELEASE_NOTES.html
>>>
>>> Search for "initHookAtIocRun".
>> Thanks, I knew I had seen it somewhere.  The Application Developer's
>> Guide needs to be updated.
>>
>> It seems to me that records with YES, RUN, and RUNNING would process
>> (i.e. send values to the device) on reconnect events under my
>> proposal #3.
>>
>> Records with PAUSE, PAUSED could indicate records that should process
>> on disconnect events?
>>
>> But this is really overloading the meanings of these values and the
>> PINI field, and a new record field or fields would be better.
>>
>> Mark
>

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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