Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello Kay,

On 04/13/2018 10:57 AM, Kasemir, Kay wrote:
> From: Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]>
>> ..  QSRV .. couldn't quite bring myself to publish printf-like specifiers over the network.
> I understand.
>
>> QSRV ..  Use  var("qsrvDisableFormat", "0") to enable display.format
> OK, Timo, try that.
>
> Is this a topic for the upcoming developer's meeting at BNL?

I just added it to our collection of topics to discuss then (a Google
doc linked from Tuesday's Core meeting minutes).

> The idea behind sending the printf format is that the client doesn't need to do anything but call printf.
> That doesn't work for clients which may want to use "precision from PV", but not the whole format.
>    display.precision = number of digits
>    display.type = decimal, exponential, engineering, hexadecimal, ..
> would allow sending the format hints, but then allow each client to decide which of those hints it uses.

Thanks,

- Andrew

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