Re: Vanishing textupdate fields

[John Sinclair <sinclairjw@ornl.gov>]

Kirby, Steve,

I would guess this is a feature in the locpv scheme. I am guessing that 
all instances are not declared in an identical manner.
One must always do something like LOCPV\pv=d:0 in every instance else 
the first instance determines the type which
may not be what you want. So check this first and let me know. It is of 
course, entirely possible that some other bug
is causing your problem.

John

Steve Lewis wrote:
> Wow, quite a discovery!  This is a real bug in EDM.  Please send the 
> two .edl files to John Sinclair so he can fix it.  You might also post 
> a warning on tech-talk [tech-talk@aps.anl.gov] so others can work 
> around the problem.  At least all you work is not lost...
>
> > Steve,
> >      Examining the text of a stripped down instrument drawing, I 
> > discovered
> > that the visibility works as long as the message button defining the 
> > local
> > PV occurs before its use in the ASCII edl file.  I moved all the message
> > buttons up to the top, and the instrument drawing started working again.
> > Then I tried to change the layering of some of the objects that use the
> > local PV.  That caused edm to shuffle the message buttons down in the
> > ASCII file.
> >
> >      Kirby