Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

We had the same problem with 3.2 and 3.3 on Debian. We fixed it by adding {"longString":true} after the PV name.

Doesn't work:
    PV Name: message1
Works:
    PV Name: message1 {"longString":true}

Hope this helps in your case,
Tasha

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Isabella Rey [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Text input to char waveform - bug?

Hi All,

Did anybody get the chance to check this bug in Windows CSS?

Looks like I'm not the only one to have this problem.

Cheers,

Isabella

On 18 March 2015 at 13:39, Hinko Kocevar <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Isabella,

it does not work for me, too - but I’m using CSS 3.2.16 on Mac OS. Funny how it works for you on Linux..

What works for me is setting the PV text value using Probe View (not really a production solution).

Best regards,
Hinko

> On 18 Mar 2015, at 13:12, Isabella Rey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running CSS 3.2.16 in Windows.
>
> I have a BOY text input widget that I want to use to write to a waveform of char, called TEST.
> The waveform is empty at startup.
> If I type something in the text input, like "abc", I get the following error message in the BOY Console:
>
> 2015-03-18 12:04:37 ERROR: Failed to write value to PV TEST from widget Text Input_1.
> Illegal input : abc
> java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 0
>
> If the waveform is not empty, the string gets updated correctly and there is no error.
>
> If I do the same in CSS in my Linux VM, all works fine, even at startup.
>
> Is this a bug in the Windows version or am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Isabella