Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Kate Feng <[email protected]> · Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:35:53 -0500

Andrew Johnson wrote:

> Kate Feng wrote:
> > MEDM version 3.03 :
> >
> > When I defined only three states for a  mbbo record,
> > the following warning message will pop up whenever  CA is
> > connected.
> >
> > menuUpdateValueCb: Got state 3.
> >  Only have strings for 3 states (starting at 0).
> >  Kate:Mset_formatmode
>
> Your record has three state strings for states #0, 1 and 2, but the VAL
> field is set to 3 which does not correspond to a valid state.  Either
> you need to define a fourth state string, or change the record so it is
> never set to the value 3.  This is not a bug in MEDM.
>

It was really a modular problem in my application . I found out  that
the error message was triggered only because I forgot to specify  'rval'
on that particualr mbbo record in the init_mbbo_record().  This is the
reason why  'val'  was set to an unknown state instead of the one
I specified.

Thanks,
Kate

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System