Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Amien Crombie [TLABS]" <[email protected]> · Fri, 27 Mar 2015 08:39:56 +0200

Hi Tim

Excellent. Works and concise.
Thanks to all of you.

Amien

On 2015-Mar-26 19:08, Mooney, Tim M. wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For completeness of this email thread (and also just for fun) an scalcout solution might look like this:
> 
> record(scalcout, "name") {
>     field(INPA, "$(dev):range")
>     field(AA, "mA")
>     field(BB, "mA")
>     field(CC, "mA")
>     field(DD, "uA")
>     field(EE, "uA")
>     field(FF, "uA")
>     field(GG, "nA")
>     field(HH, "nA")
>     field(CALC, "B:=MAX(1,MIN(8,A))-1; @@B")
>     field(OUT, "$(dev)trueval.EGU PP")
> }
> 
> Tim Mooney ([email protected]) (630)252-5417
> Software Services Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
> Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]]  on behalf of Amien Crombie [TLABS] [[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2015 9:27 AM
> To: Pearson, Matthew R.
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Record issue - to set aother record value
> 
> Matthew it works....thanks a million.
> Thanks to others but I needed this done today and this was easy to add.
> 
> Regards
> Amien
> 
> On 2015-Mar-26 15:51, Pearson, Matthew R. wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> You could use a stringout record forward linked from each calcrange record, like:
>>
>> record(acalcout, "$(dev):calcrange1")
>> {
>>
>>      field(FLNK, "$(dev):calcrange1_EGU")
>> }
>>
>> record(stringout, "$(dev):calcrange1_EGU")
>> {
>>     field(VAL, "mA")
>>     field(OUT, "$(dev):trueval.EGU PP")
>> }
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Mar 26, 2015, at 8:34 AM, Amien Crombie [TLABS] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Below I have a few records and would like to know how I can set value for "$(dev):trueval"'s EGU.
>>> This text changes according to what the range is at the moment.
>>> So for example, if I call "calcrange2" , I need to set "$(dev):trueval.EGU" to "mA" or
>>> "calcrange4" , I need to set "$(dev):trueval.EGU" to "uA"  etc....
>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>     record   (dfanout, "$(dev):checkrange")
>>>     {
>>>       field(OUTA,    "$(dev):calcrange1 PP")
>>>       field(OUTB,    "$(dev):calcrange2 PP")
>>>       field(OUTC,    "$(dev):calcrange3 PP")
>>>       field(OUTD,    "$(dev):calcrange4 PP")
>>>       field(OUTE,    "$(dev):calcrange5 PP")
>>>       field(OUTF,    "$(dev):calcrange6 PP")
>>>       field(OUTG,    "$(dev):calcrange7 PP")
>>>       field(OUTH,    "$(dev):calcrange8 PP")
>>>       field(SELL,    "$(dev):range")
>>>       field(SELM,    "Specified")
>>>     }
>>>     record(acalcout, "$(dev):calcrange1")
>>>     {
>>>           field(DTYP,  "Soft Channel")
>>>           field(INPA,  "$(dev):rawval")
>>>           field(INPB,  "$(dev):range")
>>>           field(INPC,  "$(dev):offsetR1")
>>>           field(INPD,  "10.0")
>>>           field(OOPT,  "Every Time")
>>>           field(DOPT,  "Use CALC")
>>>           field(CALC,  "B==1?((A-C)/32767.2) * D:A")
>>>           field(OUT,   "$(dev):trueval PP")
>>>    }
>>>
>>>    record(acalcout, "$(dev):calcrange2")
>>>    {
>>>           field(DTYP,  "Soft Channel")
>>>           field(INPA,  "$(dev):rawval")
>>>           field(INPB,  "$(dev):range")
>>>           field(INPC,  "$(dev):offsetR1")
>>>           field(INPD,  "10.0")
>>>           field(OOPT,  "Every Time")
>>>           field(DOPT,  "Use CALC")
>>>           field(CALC,  "B==2?((A-C)/32767.2) * D:A")
>>>           field(OUT,   "$(dev):trueval PP")
>>>    }
>>>    record(ai,         "$(dev):trueval")
>>>    {
>>>           field(DTYP,   "Soft Channel")
>>>           field(EGU,    " mA")
>>>    }
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Amien
>>> Cape Town
>>
> 

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

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