Re: Problem using waveforms with caget and camonitor

[Ralph Lange <Ralph.Lange@bessy.de>]

Oops - good point!

I committed your suggested changes to the base repository, so they'll 
show up in the next release.

Thanks a lot,
Ralph


Walters, M (Malcolm) wrote:
> I've just encountered a problem with both the command-line caget and
> camonitor when you try to read waveforms in conjunction with other data.
> If you try to read a single value followed by a waveform then you only
> get the first point of the waveform. Similarly if you try to read a
> shorter waveform followed by a longer waveform then you only get part of
> the longer waveform.
>
> Both of these are to do with how the maximum size is determined. To fix
> these I have altered how these function calculate this size. If a
> specified number of points is requested (using -# N) then that becomes
> the maximum returned. Otherwise the whole array is read back always.
>
> I hope this doesn't break any expected behaviour. The patches are
> attached.
>
> Malcolm
>
> Malcolm Walters
> 01235 778557
> Diamond Light Source Ltd. 
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> Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX
> Malcolm.Walters@diamond.ac.uk