Re: Support for Strings in database records....

["David Dudley" <daviddu@cctexas.com>]

Actually, starting to have great fun.  It's getting interesting connecting to all the main breakers in our Alternate Power generator building and standing over here (about a 1/4 mile away) and exercising the system from here (with the exception of the time I shut down all power to the plant - OOPS).

Just working on getting EPICS to start doing GOOD things, and showing up the other software we're using around here!

I'll try the 'stringin' record this week.

David

>>> Ned Arnold <nda@aps.anl.gov> 11/6/2006 12:07 PM >>>
David,

If 40 characters is enough, use a stringin record (the device support 
could fetch the latest message). If you need more than 40 characters, 
use a waveform record with type = char.

Having fun yet?

   Ned


David Dudley wrote:
> While I'm working on coming up with definitions for all these things...
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> There are items in the GE Multilin relays that are 'strings' that can be read by my driver.  Is there any way to make the string available to a DB record, such that if I get an alarm condition (which is what the strings are), I can display the string in the display somehow?
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