Re: MEDM - EGU?

[Steve Lewis <SALewis@llnl.gov>]

At 5:54 PM -0600 2008/03/06, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Ben Franksen wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 5. März 2008, Eric Norum wrote:
> > > You need one text-display widget for the value and a second text-
> > > display value for the units.   You then associate the PV value field
> > > (somePvName.VAL, or just somePvName) with the first and the PV EGU
> > > field (somePvName.EGU) with the second.
> > (which I always found strange, since CA readily 
> > supports units e.g. with DBR_GR_xxx requests)
>
> I agree, very strange.  EDD/DM had a text widget 
> that included the units as well as the value in 
> what it displayed.  Does EDM have such a thing?

The 'default' choice button on most of the 
TextUpdate and similar widgets in fact appends 
.EGU to most fields in any record (even though it 
usually only applies to .VAL and maybe .HOPR, 
.LOPR, etc)