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Subject: RE: Automatic refresh of OPI
From: Iain Marcuson <[email protected]>
To: "Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]>, "[email protected] >> EPICS Tech Talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 13:39:59 +0000 
> But as for your basic question how to pro grammatically refresh the display,
> the same as using the "Refresh" option from the context menu, you could do
> this from a script:
> 
> from org.csstudio.opibuilder.scriptUtil import ScriptUtil
> ScriptUtil.executeEclipseCommand("org.eclipse.ui.file.refresh")
> 
> -Kay

That solved the problem.  The Text Input widgets update with their new values

> I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do here.
> Does your IOC require you to write several PVs "at the same time"?
> Like a "start", "stepsize" and "end" parameter that all need to be written
> concurrently whenever one of them changes?
> ==> The underlying Channel Access protocol doesn't support such an
> operation. It can only write PVs one by one.
> If you really need to write several parameters "at once", you need to write
> an array value.
> 

The IOC holds the values e.g.  "start", "stepsize" and "end" parameters as separate PVs.  A fourth PV triggers Stream Device to write those three PVs over TCP/IP to the "backend hardware" in one transaction.

Iain.
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