Re: medm: leading zeros

[mooney@aps.anl.gov (Tim Mooney)]

re...

> > Is there a way to specify (in the record's PRECision field) to direct a medm
> > text monitor to fill the displayed VALue with leading zeros?  I want the
> > display to show '02',  not '2'.   In a printf statement the syntax would be
> > %02d.
> > 
> > -ps
> > 
> > 
> 
> No, not directly. If its REAL important you could write a simple device
> support routine for a stringin record that puts it into whatever format
> you want. The stringin record could fetch the value you want using the 
> .INP field.

You could also install the sCalcout record 
(http://www.aps.anl.gov/xfd/SoftDist/swBCDA/stringCalc.tar.gz)
use that printf statement in its calc field, and display the string result.

Tim Mooney