Hello Nab,

As stated in the VDCST Release Notes for 2.6.1280 <https://openepics.ci.cloudbees.com/job/ext-VisualDCT-master-site/site/release-notes.html>

Read promptgroup (gui_group) choices from DBD. (Recommended for use with EPICS Base 3.15.4 and up.)

You are running VDCT  "v2.6 build 1274". You have to upgrade to v2.6.1280 for VDCT to work with EPICS Base 3.15.5

Ron

On 11/29/2017 04:07 PM, Nab Rahman wrote:

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for responding - unfortunately I cannot succesfully open 'softIoc.dbd" file for EPICS 3.15.5. Method of execution:

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[nrahman@sunfire03]% pwd
/u/nrahman/EPICS/base-3.15.5/dbd

[nrahman@sunfire03]% ls

aSubRecord.dbd  compressRecord.dbd    mbbiRecord.dbd permissiveRecord.dbd
aaiRecord.dbd dbCommon.dbd          mbboDirectRecord.dbd printfRecord.dbd
aaoRecord.dbd dbCore.dbd            mbboRecord.dbd selRecord.dbd
aiRecord.dbd  devSoft.dbd           menuAlarmSevr.dbd  seqRecord.dbd
aoRecord.dbd  devSoft_adj.dbd       menuAlarmStat.dbd     softIoc.dbd
asSub.dbd dfanoutRecord.dbd     menuConvert.dbd  stateRecord.dbd
base.dbd  dlload.dbd            menuFtype.dbd  stdRecords.dbd
base_adj.dbd  eventRecord.dbd       menuGlobal.dbd stringinRecord.dbd
biRecord.dbd  fanoutRecord.dbd      menuIvoa.dbd stringoutRecord.dbd
boRecord.dbd  filters.dbd           menuOmsl.dbd subArrayRecord.dbd
bptTypeJdegC.dbd  histogramRecord.dbd   menuPini.dbd subRecord.dbd
bptTypeJdegF.dbd  longinRecord.dbd      menuPost.dbd          system.dbd
bptTypeKdegC.dbd  longoutRecord.dbd     menuPriority.dbd waveformRecord.dbd
bptTypeKdegF.dbd  lsiRecord.dbd         menuScan.dbd
calcRecord.dbd  lsoRecord.dbd         menuSimm.dbd
calcoutRecord.dbd mbbiDirectRecord.dbd  menuYesNo.dbd

[nrahman@sunfire03]%*java -jar /u/nrahman/EPICS/VDCT-Files/VisualDCT.jar softIoc.dbd*

Loading VisualDCT v2.6 build 1274...


Directive to load DBD: 'softIoc.dbd'.
No DBD loaded! Exiting...

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I checked to see if there were any accidental changes to the file but none observed using "ls -l" at the terminal (snipped screenshot):

-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users    596     Aug 17    16:55   menuSimm.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users    605     Aug 17    16:55   menuYesNo.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   1004    Aug 17    16:56   permissiveRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   2789    Aug 17    16:56   printfRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   6303    Aug 17    16:56   selRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   8880    Aug 17    16:56   seqRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users 387832  Aug 17    16:56   softIoc.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users    753     Aug 17    16:56   stateRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users    879     Aug 17    16:56   stdRecords.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   1728    Aug 17    16:56   stringinRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   2116    Aug 17    16:56   stringoutRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   2051    Aug 17    16:56   subArrayRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users   6326    Aug 17    16:56   subRecord.dbd
-r--r--r--+ 1 nrahman users     99      Aug 17    16:55   system.dbd


The only *.dbd files that *I can open *with VDCT for EPICS 3.15.5 are the following:

  * devSoft.dbd
  * dbCommon.dbd
  * dbCore.dbd
  * system.dbd

Once template is opened, I am unable to create any records given that "stdRecords.dbd" wasn't loaded and can't be loaded. Any other suggestions you might have for me?

Thanks,
Nab

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Andrew Johnson <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi Nab,

    On 11/29/2017 01:54 PM, Nab Rahman wrote:
    > I would like to use VDCT to build EPICS databases for EPICS 3.15.5
    > (stable release) and noticed that VDCT will not load the base version
    > "base.dbd" file found in the base directory. I have been able to
    > successfully load VDCT with EPICS 3.14.12.6's "base.dbd" file but not
    > with EPICS 3.15.5

    > Has anyone in the EPICS community been able to successfully run VDCT
    > with EPICS 3.15.5?

    I just tried and can successfully load the softIoc.dbd file from Base
    3.15.5. This is the DBD that has all the includes expanded out for all
    the record and device types that come with Base.

    In general you should first create your IOC application area (with
    makeBaseApp) and configure its configure/RELEASE file, then run make to
    create the IOC's DBD file and load that from the $TOP/dbd directory into
    VDCT. It will then know about all the record and device types that the
    IOC knows about. You shouldn't have to load more than that one DBD file.

    Kay's point about new DBD syntax in newer releases is true, VDCT
    v2.6.1280 cannot load a softIoc.dbd file from Base-3.16.1 or the
    soon-to-be-released Base-7.0.1, so as a community we have some work to
    do to update it — any volunteers out there with Java experience please?

    - Andrew

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