Re: edm: Displaying numeric information

[Tim Mooney <mooney@aps.anl.gov>]

David Dudley wrote:
> Is there a way to have edm display numeric information as 'leading zero'
> fields?
>
> For instance, I want to display a time from my PLC.
> The PLC has a variable that is hours, one that is minutes, and one that
> is seconds.milliseconds.
> I want to display '00:00:00.000' instead of ' 0: 0: 0.0  '.

I don't know about formatting numbers with EDM.  If no solution pops up,
you could make a string out of the numbers with a couple of sCalcout
records, and get EDM to display that.

scalc1.INPA = <hours PV name>
scalc1.INPB = <minutes PV name>
scalc1.CALC = '$P(%02d:",a)+$P(%02d:",b)'
scalc1.OUT = "scalc2.AA PP"
scalc2.INPA = <seconds PV name>
scalc2.CALC = 'aa+$P("%06.3f",a)'

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Tim Mooney (mooney@aps.anl.gov) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls & Data Acquisition Group
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab.