Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:09:10 -0700

On 04/15/2018 11:40 PM, Timo Korhonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A short update.
> 
> 
> 
> On 13/04/18 17:57, "Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>
>>> QSRV ..  Use  var("qsrvDisableFormat", "0") to enable display.format
>> OK, Timo, try that.
> 
> Tried. Enabling and disabling the format works, no surprise. Changing PREC
> also changes the format, etc.
> 
> However, this does not change how BOY displays the numbers; again, no
> surprise. 
> I would have been surprised if it did. Or maybe it was agreed to be
> implemented, I am not sure.
> 
> (I am using the ESS-specific CS-Studio, by the way.)

This is funny as I know I've seen an effect, which is one of the reasons
I hesitated to enable it.

During my first experiments, I naively treated display.format like PREC,
and set it to eg. "3".  It took me a moment (or two) to understand why
the rendered value was always "3".

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System